Given a choice before birth would you have consented to it or would you have said you didn’t wanna be born?
Bit of a gray area here since there are people that never got the chance to be here, potential humans that were miscarried or aborted that never had the chance at life.
I’m glad I was here, served a function for a while, but my energy level for life has now become practically non existent.
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“Given a choice before birth would you have consented to it or would you have said you didn’t wanna be born?”
Kinda depends doesn’t it?
Would you be told exactly what life you would get?
Just told the various possibilities?
Would you be told about the World in all its glory and horrors
Or would one just get an opportunity to choose to be born, but still have to go at it blind, kinda making the choice pointless since you wouldn’t really be choosing anything, because you wouldn’t really now what “Life/being born” meant to you and your future
Personally I hate going at stuff blind, so I would probably have opted for a big fat “NO, flush me the fuck down now”
and had I been told how my life would turn out I’d have gone and asked to just meet the divine hot bent wire-hanger this instant
then again, had I been informed about the “possibilities” of the world, I would probably have been a naive schmuck like everybody else, and jumped the gun, sliding out a couple of weeks too early, to get a head start, but still end up crushed under a falling piano because only 1-in-a-million gets lucky
And if I had been told/shown the glory and horrors of the world, I would likely just have stayed inside the womb, because why get out when its nice and warm and safe in here
This is a very interesting question. You know if you had asked me this about a year or two ago. I was in a dark place then and I probably would have said. I wish I had never been born. Because MOST of my life has been really hard and I have had many painful times. BUT, well things have started to get much better for me in life. And now that things have gotten much better for me > I am starting to appreciate this thing called life. Even though my existence in this life has been much harder then most people > I still have snuck in a LOT of great moment in my life.. and I believe now that there will be many more great moment to my life. So now all and all > I can say YES I am glad that I was born and glad that I have lived > because even though my life has been very hard.. it has been an interesting journey. and I have learnt a lot about life and I have grown a lot in life.. and I am thankful now for my experience as a human being.
I have come to appreciate life in general… because even when life is hard. There are lessons you can learn from the hard times… and you can often Grow as a person and make progress in your soul as you go through hard times. > and I believe making progress in our soul is the Main reason why we are here!!!
and once you make it through the hard times.. there usually come times that are GOOD and when you have battled through the hard times and made it to some good times. the Good times are even Sweeter!!!
For me. YES, I am glad that I was born
But I wish that I had been born into better circumstances.. because I was born into a shitty upbringing and had the worst abusive fucked up parents in the world > they fucked me up so bad when I was a child that my whole life has been messed up. I wish that I had been born into a normal family that would have raised me properly. BUT I did not have that… and there is nothing I can do now to change it. All I can do now is work forward and get through all my issues in life and make the best life that I can make
After much reflection…..in honestly, this is what I would have said……”OH HELL NO…….fuck that shit………” I know far too much about this life and had I honestly been given a choice …..I would have chosen otherwise.
and if possible….I would have laugh and handed them a corn cob and been “here shove this up your ass and when it hurts more than you think you can bear….keep going…you are not there yet…..
FUCKERS
this made me laugh so freakin hard like I haven’t in a long while
the imagery is just so beautiful thank you
now I have to clean because I just squirted out my drink everywhere laughing
ROFL…agreed snorlax
It’s a tricky question. Given the odds, a random throw of the dice will more likely have you be born to one of the 6 (out of 7) billion people who are dirt poor. Only about 1 billion have adequate drinking water, pretty much in the Western world. So I consider myself lucky that my parents live in the West. The odds also are that you’d likely be ordinary looking, average intelligence, living a mediocre life. For some that’s fine-for others like me, it’s horrible.
So if I was able to choose my parents, of course I’d want the best of the best. In fact that’s why I hated my parents and my life for many years-from the time I became aware of my existence and could compare it to others. Now in fairness, my parents were attractive (compared to others), good parents and overall gave me and my siblings a better life than most parents do-but we were still lower middle-class while most people I knew were doing better financially, so that’s always been a grievance of mine (being poor).
But short answer, if I couldn’t choose my parents, then no-I’d never want to have been born. However now that I’m here and had both amazing but also terrible experiences, I’m somewhat ok with my life. For instance I had the opportunity to date very pretty girls so I’m grateful for that-never felt I deserved them but I was happy that they took an interest in me…made my life a bit more exciting and fun. But of course being single is that much worse since you can’t settle for less since you’re used to a higher standard.
But I learned that really the be-all and end-all in life (aside from good health) is money. If you have a lot then life is great. If you’re struggling for cash, life is totally shit and there are many horrible ways to make money-most of them lead to a terrible daily existence and the amount you make is really pathetic, esp compared to our parents. So you make enough to survive but never enough to get anywhere or to be happy…unless you have the right connections to good jobs.
I’m also glad I’ve been around to help some people in my life who would’ve ended up in a terrible place if not for me…but helping others has never been an important goal in my life as it is for some people. Anyways if I had to choose this life or no life at all-I guess my life wasn’t completely awful and I’d choose to live it. But it was very close to being bad enough to throw away (or never accept). Hopefully the latter half of my life will be better-if I decide to stay around long enough to find out, we’ll see.