Hey, comrades. What type of lives do you guys have? Are you actually happy, content with your existence...

I dont think I'm contributing anymore

Comrade, relax, drink a glass of bottle, take a few deep breaths and lie down.

Gonna go through finals.

Yep, I study and do what I love, so for now it's pretty neat, although it might turn to shit this summer since I'll have to work for peanuts.

Pretty hopeful but somties I doubt it.

Non-religious, but I'm not against having a family later.

As an immigrant who fled a country destroyed by war, pretty nice for me. Can't say the same for my family who struggles alot (discrimination, unemployement etc)

What country?

The one that I fled or the one where I live now?

Fled

Georgia.

I really admire your optimism, user.

I hope for your crisis to wither away user.

My favorite brand also.

FUCK OFF YOU SHILL, PINT OF KEG IS WAY BETTER

hahahahah i didn't even notice. I'm half dead hahahah

I get high and read and wage slave a lot

I went to jail and now I can't really see anything as worse than that. I don't really know if that counts as actual happiness. I just know its good not to be in jail and anyway worse shit than that is currently happening to people right now.

I rattle between the two

No, but recently I have begun to get over my teenage bullshit and extract the positives of religion. Also I'm closer to my fam now.

Kek, comrade! Do u wanna talk about it, tho?

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Currently a NEET and pretty happy, but despairing since I know I can't keep my life like this forever.

I love how solitary it is, dealing with people is so exhausting I dread the day I have to return to the workforce and deal with dozens of loud and rude persons daily.

I'm full of despair and it's getting worse by the second. Every minute I plunge deeper into the abyss
At least I have music, anime, religion and shitposting to keep me from flipping a lid for now.

I am nothing. I have no mood.
I have seen the world now.
I am not impressed.

The thing that keeps me going is no particular idea or hope, but simply my nature; I will keep on fighting hierarchy and the modern world because I have no other choice than to do so. It is simply in the nature of my being to end hierarchy, nothing more nothing less.

And so I embrace my nature and surrender to that very primordial urge that lives inside of me, in the hope that people like me won't have to be born in the future, that we may all live in a world that is rid of the exploitation and undemocratic rule that we have today under capitalism.

Life's pretty good thanks OP.
I study, I read politics, I work part-time doing a job I don't hate and that is actually socially useful so I don't feel alienated (I do care work for the disabled). I've got friends that are mostly either socialists like me or soc-dems who are still great friends and great people. I try to spread the ideas of socialism.

Life is tough under capitalism but people are good. Don't lose hope comrades.

marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm

This is what you should have.

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Have you read this?
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-at-daggers-drawn-with-the-existent-its-defenders-and-its-false-critics

I've had a pretty shit life that's culminated with my body becoming a prison and being confined to a wheelchair as I await inevitable death. Music shitposting on Holla Forums, and my dog offer some distraction though, so it could be worse I suppose…
pic is not my dog, but same breed APBT.

what kind of music do you like?

Rap, house, funk, for the most part, but I'm easy if someone else is selecting the music.

this is for you then, fam

my nigga, thx fam!

Student. I'll be done with bachelor's degree in sociology by Christmas. Also have bachelor's degree in general psychology, but it has no work-related use where I live. Work as a substitute in a kindergarten.

I'm sometimes happy, sometimes not. Haven't really felt content since I was six years old. I hope I can attain the degree of financial freedom I want before I die, but I have doubts.

I'm not religious. I have a GF. I have feel no drive to have children.

Life has been somewhat comfortable.

I am a dropout NEET and I hate it. Currently looking for a job so I can finally be a wage slave yaaaay!

No.

I get angsty about the future but I try to get my hopes high by thinking about how to fix it.

I am an atheist.

I probably won't have children in my life, at least not until I am financially secure.

My most happy years are behind me, and I made some shitty life choices that I regret everyday. My only hope is either massive happening, or finding some comrades to live in a commune in the countryside, far away from all the stress of daily city life.

What were you jailed for?

Hotwheels?

nope muh bones are fine, it's my CNS that's fucked(MS).

I have a friend with MS. He's a fighter. There's good chance we eventually get a cure in our lifetime.

Yup they've made some inroads in relapsing/remitting MS and they might be rolling something out in the next 4-5 years, I read. The work's been slower going with progressive MS though, but I'm attending a lecture put on by my local MS chapter next week on stem cells, so perhaps the Drs presenting will have good news about something in the future.

fix your shit hotwheels
t. matchbox

MS?

Multiple Sclreosis. His biological proletariat is fucking up his biological bourgeoisie, only in this context it's not a good thing.

I really hope they have that news, user. Stay strong. You're a testament to the leftist spirit.

You'll always have us, user. Don't forget that.

Art student, about to be a wage slave.

No, not really. I often feel discouraged by younger people who are more skilled, but I made my stupid choice because I didn't want to work in an office. I also long for death.

I'm a pagan and only my immediate family speaks to me. It's alright, though, I love them very much.

It's getting steadily better. I hope all of you will do well, too.

state or the country?

It's not the 19th century anymore, lad

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I study philosophy lazily and some times work as a substitute teacher for afternoon clubs for kids. Mostly I just kinda float around in a haze of drug induced calmness, thinking about politics, reading fiction, watching netflix. I am a product of the system. I am good at distracting myself to the point that I don't have to confront the things about myself that are bad. I see friends and drink or do drugs with them maybe once a week, and eat dinner with my family maybe once a week as well
I am content, but I can't claim to be happy. I have an alright life
yes, hopeful that humanity can better itself, but in despair because the world is fucked and so is my life and it's prospects
I'm an atheist and I like my family, not getting a baby any time soon
when my parents split up I was 15. The same day I watched The big Lebowski. This man and his life became the ideal for me in my teenage years. I didn't desire much, but I enjoyed what I had and didn't mess with people who didn't deserve it. This sort of buddhist philosophy has formed the person I still am today

I like life, I can see beauty even tho my own life isn't that interesting

I've been feeling pretty hopeless as of late. I feel as if I've finally, finally let myself internalize the fact that we live in a world where the bad guys win all day, every day, and have always won. The country I live in is collapsing into neoliberalism and fascism, with our finance minister publicly fawning over Thatcher and our publicly owned media company publishing liberal 'both points of view need to be represented' character pieces painting violent nazi scum as caring, hard working heads of family who just got in with the wrong crowd. Socialism, let alone communism or anarchism, is a dirty word and any left-leaning person is smeared a national traitor at best, with the wishes that they'd be put in the pit along with the tens of thousands of workers that our dear bourgie masters put to death during and after our civil war a hundred years ago that is still taboo to discuss without being smeared as a treasonous red.

I still find solace from friends and the arts. I work to help the weakest of society. I hold conviction in the justice of communism and will hold to that until the day I die.

I guess the deepest cut I've let capitalism inflict on me is the disinclination to ever have children. I just can't bear to imagine bringing a life unto the consequences of global warming, the coming resource wars and propable rise of fascism across the northern hemisphere. I just can't bring a child, a life unto all that shit. This is, of course, only my weakness projecting to a virtual descendant.

Am I self-centered for thinking that my child is better off not born? Is there real hope? Is this just the onset of the long night before dawn, or is it the Forever Pit?

I'm at a weird state. On one hand, I'm pretty cynical about things, on the other, extremely hopeful.
Shit sucks, and most people aren't aware of the alternatives, yet people are radicalizing and are becoming receptive to ideas. The left is poised to gain influence in the west, and if we try, if I try, we can make things better for everyone.
I'm also a bit lost. I have neither the money nor the credentials to get into a good college, no matter how well I'm sure I'd do. I don't really want to get a real long-term job, after seeing how wage-slavery has effected the people close to me.

I guess I'll try to get into politics, somehow. Gotta get into school to do that, though, so I'll have to make that work.

I'm a self-loathing, leftist faggot. So yeah, I'm pretty happy about that.

I'm looking for a way to escape civilization before it collapses without subjecting myself to wage slavery.

I'm your typical mid 20s college dropout working part time because full time is hard to find.

If you're happy, the fuck are you doing flirting with leftism?

Despair & despair.

Not even once.

Haven't talked to my blood family for about 3 years now. Never got along with them, but I let my friends know often that I care deeply for them.

I recommend you all read Hegel. Shit changes your life.

Wtf is going on in this picture. How does Marx know what is happening in the 1970s? Why is Buddha unable to respond to it? Is it implying Buddha is unaware of the suffering of the world? How does he know Steven Segal? Are they in heaven? Marx is an atheist and Buddha has achieved nirvana, meaning his soul has been destroyed.

I was a couple weeks ago

God forbid a happy person be able to see that leftism is moral or preferable. Unless you're implying that leftism makes people unhappy in which case I agree.

It is from a web comic called "Dead philosophers in heaven", so yeah it's confusing.

God I HATE moralists. I got into Marx because it just fucking made sense. Truth>feels and desires of utopia.

But that's wrong you heathen.

Source: Muh anecdote

Same here, actually. What's your current plan? I'm looking at subsistence living in the remote corner of some Nordic country, myself.

That's what postmodernism does silly.

Life is chill. Not sure what to do after finishing school though, but I'm not worried.

Happiness comes and goes on the hedonic treadmill and I'm fine with it, content.

Excited to see what futuristic technological advancement predictions will actualize, but not putting too much hope in the future, trying to enjoy the present.

Apathetic agnostic.

Probably, but not going to have children any time soon.

Used to be a depressed loner, but then accepted solitude together with my inner peace. Now I've even got a girlfriend to coexist with.

praying alleviates the despair tbh

Nope

a bit

yup

nope

Shit. At least im not suicidal anymore. So i guess its better than before?

Only if you have slipped far enough into insanity that you are schizo.

cont.
Im not sure if i should consider this an improvement, but ive gone from feeling constant depressing, fear and anguish to not having much emotion anymore. Sometimes i purposefully don't do anything i am obligated to do so i can feel a sense of urgency and dread, instead of just emptiness.

Anyway, time for bed.

sane and insane are relative terms

This thread makes me want to get together for drinks with you lot,

in particular.

I guess I'll participate.
Petty-bourg. College graduate living with my parents, gonna start towards a master's and-or try to start a career with a 'real' job. I currently substitute teach (funny how many subs we have on here…)

Am I happy? I have every right to be. I have a car and a home and nice possessions. I feel alienated, I feel like shit for other people though. I haven't many friends.

I alternate between hope and despair. I realize I can't be satisfied with plain simple life until communism.

I am not religious in the sense that I don't follow a teacher but I follow those who I call wise but most of all follow my intuition.
I live at home but I am hardly family oriented.

Life has been good really, it's just hard to feel that way when other things are shit and you feel lonely, no commie friends, no gf.

I'm glad you're here

I work every night, all summer, doing nothing actually, and browsing leftypol, cause I just have to be here in case anything happens.

I get about 7000 euros per year and have nothing to actually do with them. I live with my parents, they make the food, I barely pay for anything…

And every other night I wander… Why I am doing this? What's the point?

FUCKING CAPITALISM!

Depressing.
Not at all. The world is filled with awful people doing awful things and nobody seems to understand how to improve things. On every scale from the most miniscule to the most vast, humanity manages to fuck things up and spread suffering (often taking delight in doing so). When I'm not struggling with work I escape into fantasy.
I contemplate suicide most days, although I am optimistic about the deep future (1000+ years away).
My parents are nice, and I like various 2D anime girls.
pic related

things are a lot better now that money is no longer an issue and never will be again, getting a new home with my girl, starting our life finally, only problem is I'm still sick, but I think I'll be able to manage once I get over the depression from the last 6 years of poverty

I thought the whole point of his doctrine was that you can't destroy what's not there in the first place

hotwheels pls

Porky just changed my work schedule to some bullshit where I work different shifts every day, and none of them work with the bus schedule. When I pointed out that it won't work with the bus schedule, I was told to get a car, as though I could on what I'm paid. Basically, I'm not fired, but I can't work there anymore, so I'm looking for new work. Shit sucks.

I hate this shit. Every day that I had to call in sick at my old job the manager would say something like "we really need you today!" only for me to find out that the day was slow as hell and two other workers were able to leave early. Only reason why I didn't quit sooner was because I had to save up money to move out.

Caught between desperate paranoia and despair about the near future and the state of the world and simple, day to day satisfaction with my personal life. I'm doing amazing in college, finally have some friends, feel like I'm finally fully engaged with the world.

It's getting increasingly harder to feel anything but overwhelming panic and doom though, especially given the elections currently and the seemingly zero options at our disposal to fucking do anything.

What kind of work is that? Ψαχνομαι :'))))

I'm glad you're here too, user

I'm a year behind and studying to get into a top-25 university in the UK for compsci.
No, but I'm working on that. I aim to ramp up my practice of mindfulness meditation.
That's also a 'no', but I understand what it takes to be content.
I have hope for leftism, but exams (in about one month or so) are making me worry.
Yes, I'm a practicing Buddhist.
I don't really get along with my family. I don't dislike them, I just don't have such a strong connection with them.
It could be much worse. I should get off Holla Forums and study.

I hope you're well, OP. Thanks for asking.

I have PTSD and im only 18
Life is pretty shit honestly

Temp worker with a tertiary degree. 100% time-watching, minimum effort wage slave. I'm polite and professional but beyond that I could care less. I'd rather not work harder for the same pay.

Of course not. People expect me to succeed in a system I despise and I have no motivation to do so. Reading leftist theory broke the ideological mindset but it leaves the individual to pick up the pieces.

Hope without optimism. Capitalism will end when it ends. Despair is temporary, gritting your teeth and bearing the unbearable. If it gets really bad I drown it in hard liquor and a dreamless sleep. I'd like to not oscillate between normality and despair but that would require a world where the concept of justice had not been entirely perverted.

I am an atheist. I am close with my immediate family, but relatives turned out to be fair-weather friends. I try to keep up with my loose network of acquaintances if just to have a social drink and ward off further mental health issues.

Tried the Tyler Durden route – didn't work. Self-improvement is hard and probably pointless but it beats stagnation.

What's your tertiary degree in? This is peak alienating. Also pretty much where I imagine I'll be in about 6 years.

wow, two useless degrees.

I have OCD but I am breaking out of it. Huge breakthroughs as of late. I am 28, I attend university but dropped out due to ocding.

right now, I am realizing that these are false dichotomies and suffering and alienation is not a symptom of a system but of one self. I am trying to purge these beliefs out of myself and, and even I have troubles believing in this, but I am to some extent becoming more and more successful in doing this. Life is difficult, but it is a wonderful challenge. I am broke as hell, I have debts I need to pay every month, I live in a small rented room in an arrangement known as a boarding house. I am also isolated, I no friends.

I'm becoming more and more skeptical of the ideological positions in politics tho, and how productive or even healthy it is to engage in those positions. Learning to break through the obsessive-compulsive aspects of my anxiety is becoming a source of learning useful skills to start encountering things in ways that aren't limiting or inflexible.

no to religion, family, future or current, is on't my radar.

im a total loser, 26 year old kissless virgin. im very depressed, completely hopeless about the future and have done nothing worthwhile in my life.

look at his flag

I'm a student.

Not right now. I don't mean to self diagnose, but I think I've been going in and out of depression for a few years. At first I used gamergate to satisfy my need for a community with people like sargon. I eventually dropped him and started regularing here. I want to devote some more time to self-improvement, I'm already learning a language, but I want to really improve my personality and start reading.

Not religious, but I sort of want a family in the future.