Do you personally feel like life truly does get better?

[Anonymous]

If someone tells you, "You're still young, you have a lot of things to still experience" would you really believe them?

[Sonorous]

It all depends on a perception. So, since my perception is capable of making me feel like life could become better, then I'll never be fully against the idea. But until it happens, I'll never assume it will.

But ofc, the mind achieves positive emotion more easily when it thinks a certain way. So, if someone convinced themselves that their lives would become better, chances are that they'd put themselves in situations & environments where constructive growth was more likely. Which would help them accomplish their goal more than if they were wallowing in self-pity & doing nothing to improve.

[NamerOfStars]

Yes- but I'd still want to punch them in the face. Historical revisionism doesn't just apply on a society-wide scale; it's also very personal. People look back at college and remember the fun times; they don't remember getting by on twenty minutes of sleep as they downed mug after mug of coffee to churn out papers on John Stuart Mill.

Life CAN get better, but it doesn't if left alone; you need to WORK at it.

[CloudMassacre]

Like, I generally that there’s cool shit to see and experience, but like, I’m almost always in some kind of pain or discomfort, anxiety, depression.🤷‍♂️ Like I can still move around on my own I guess. Like I can’t imagine walking up to a full paralyzed person and saying that. But at the same time, I see the writing on the wall. Things are going to get worse in some ways

[Cedman]

That's unknowable unless you can read the future. You move forward and hope for the best.

[MCheetah]

Hell no.