Homicide or Suicide

I understand that hatred. I feel it too sometimes. I think the thing to try to remember is…no one really chose this world. Not really. Even happy, successful, well-adjusted people are just victims of chance. They didn’t decide to make life hard, unfair, or distressing. That’s just the way it is. We’re ultimately all on the same shitty boat, though some are temporarily enjoying things up on deck, while others are trapped below in the darkness.

You can respond to that with anger – by wishing an end to any brief happiness others experience, so they’re all in the dark with you. But that’s a mistake. Because they’re you. Or rather, they’re you, as you’d like to be. If your self-hatred matters (and it does, clearly), then so does the feelings of everyone else – their happiness or unhappiness. That’s all that really matters, ultimately.