Is life a gift?

mr_fegelien

Or a curse in your opinion?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Only my opinion but certainly a gift. But I know others feel differently. Stages of our lives can foster conflicting answers.

What do you think yourself? Actually debate one of your threads for a change.

mr_fegelien

Raiden Tangy Maze wrote: »

Only my opinion but certainly a gift. But I know others feel differently. Stages of our lives can foster conflicting answers.

What do you think yourself? Actually debate one of your threads for a change.

I think it can be great but when I look in town and see the homeless along with struggles of people I know, it seems to be filled with hardship, pain, suffering etc...

Quantum Erasure

Life's a piece of shít, when you look at it..

tuxy

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I think it can be great but when I look in town and see the homeless along with struggles of people I know, it seems to be filled with hardship, pain, suffering etc...

If by town you mean Drogheda, it is going through a very rough patch at the moment

Stewball

If you're born healthy it is.

If not, it can be a struggle depending on your circumstances.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

But always look on the bright side of life.

KathleenGrant

Raiden Tangy Maze wrote: »

Only my opinion but certainly a gift. But I know others feel differently. Stages of our lives can foster conflicting answers.

What do you think yourself? Actually debate one of your threads for a change.

Stages of our lives can foster conflicting answers.

Absolutely agree with this. At the moment things are not easy for me all the time but I do feel that life is bringing lots of good things to me if I look at them the right way.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I think it can be great but when I look in town and see the homeless along with struggles of people I know, it seems to be filled with hardship, pain, suffering etc...

And when I go to town and see so many people socialising with friends and having a laugh. Or families enjoying comfort and love together. Or walk through the countryside watching and listening to the wonders about me. So much in life can be a joy. Go out looking for confirmation bias of your bleak view and and you'll find it. It takes little effort.

Struggles, pain and suffering exist but is life really "filled" with them?

uck51js9zml2yt

It's a gift but for some it becomes a curse. They bring misery to everyone they touch.

Quantum Erasure

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Life's a piece of shít, when you look at it..

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true

MoashoaM

Cheer up mister F. We've all stubbed our big toe.

Gynoid

“If there were a huge, deep ocean as big as this entire world with a golden yoke floating on its surface, and, at the bottom, there were a crippled, blind turtle who surfaced only once in a hundred years, how often would that turtle raise its head through the yoke?” Such an event would be extremely rare, but not as rare as gaining the birth of leisure and fortune.’'

I am not a Buddhist, but I have long loved this metaphor from one of their sutras for the improbability of a human existence and thus why it is so precious. It is almost crazy that we exist at all.

Life is like a box of frogs with its unpredictable ups and downs.

Still waters

No one ever said life had to be easy, its a constant slog of bills, work and running to keep still, make the best of it and try and put something away for a holiday and retirement and hope you live long enough to enjoy a few stress free years with your loved ones

the-island-man

Life is like a game of cards. Life and a card game both depend on how good or how bad the hand that you get dealt is.

Life is a gift. Sometimes the journey through it can be a curse. The trick is to appreciate the good, learn from the bad and move on.

I wouldn't consider Life to be a gift as such. That suggests some gratitude is required to someone or some higher power. Considering the sheer amount of pain and distress, that most people experience through their lives, I wouldn't consider it a gift exactly deserving of gratitude.

At the same time though, I'm thoroughly enjoying my life. Plenty of downs, a few ups, and far more moments of contentment, especially as I get older.

Life is a gift and a curse and everything in between, depending on what's going on in someones life at any given moment. Everyone faces challenges, so it's important to recognise the good times and soak up every bit of happiness and contentment as they happen instead of taking things, or people, for granted.

Church on Tuesday

It's a gift and not something to be taken for granted.

It can be tough going but that's just the way it goes. Makes you appreciate the good times more.

Omackeral

Life is a gift. Right now is a gift, that's why they call it the present.

Bobblehats

It’s the present that keeps on presenting itself

dd973

God knows.


...cue 38 page Believer/Agnostic/Atheist thread

Hannibal_Smith

Being human is a gift. If I'm going to exist on the planet, I'd hate to be a blue bottle or dung beetle. Being a human is a pretty neat stroke of luck.

One eyed Jack

Stewball wrote: »

If you're born healthy it is.

If not, it can be a struggle depending on your circumstances.

Yeah, depending upon your circumstances is the key phrase there, because whether or not life is or isn’t a gift isn’t necessarily dependent upon being born healthy either. Plenty of people are born who are generally considered born unhealthy, and they still have the capacity to consider life a gift that has been bestowed upon them through advances in science, technology and medicine, and societies attitudes to people who are disabled of course - they aren’t generally considered better off dead nowadays. Only a small minority of people are of that opinion.

I do think life is a gift, though I can understand why some people are of the opinion that it’s a gift horse when they’re peering into it’s mouth :pac:

MMXX

Breath in - breath out, sun comes up - sun goes down, the tide comes in - the tide goes out, dark - light, black - white.

Life is everything - in it's entirety, it is neither a gift - nor a curse, and it is both a gift - and a curse.

endacl

MoashoaM wrote: »

Cheer up mister F. We've all stubbed our big toe.

Mr F had the misfortune of being born with ten big toes and a tendency to drag his feet...

893bet

A lot of people trying to be philosophical in this thread and failing.

Meh.

It’s a lottery that we were born in the west and I appreciate my “lifestyle”.

MMXX

893bet wrote: »

Meh.

It’s a lottery that we were born in the west and I appreciate my “lifestyle”.

Deep.

ExoPolitic

Life is a gift, living is a curse.

seenitall

Eh no. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying.................

Sorry, I had to. I'll get my Elizabethan cape now.

Lyan

Life is a utility for self-replicating molecules (genes in our case) to perpetuate their existence. Call it a gift to the all the people and animals out there that are suffering horribly for nothing.

FishOnABike

Life's what you make it
Celebrate it, anticipate it
Yesterday's faded, nothing can change it
Life's what you make it

con747

Greed dictates life and who has what quality of life.

Graces7

Disagree. Totally. We can overcome any thing. Fatalism is an excuse . Life is a gift. A huge gift

the-island-man wrote: »

Life is like a game of cards. Life and a card game both depend on how good or how bad the hand that you get dealt is.

Your Face

Ill murder in cold blood, anyone, who says life isn't a gift that should be cherished.

Tom Mann Centuria

As a great Irish poet once said:

..... don't fight it. Life is a rollercoaster. Just gotta ride it.

OP Lookit, I see there are a few literature fans on this thread already.

I think you should get your self an actual paperback copy of

Adrian Mole, The Capuccino Years

by Sue Townsend (rip)

And get more time off the smartphone / tablet / pluter while you're reading!

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

Raiden Tangy Maze wrote: »

Struggles, pain and suffering exist but is life really "filled" with them?

Yes, objectively speaking, it is...

And btw Raiden Tangy Maze, confirmation bias is an applicable concept on both sides of this topic.

Life just is... and the point of life is to live it. Anything else really is just conjecture.

The moment you claim to understand it, or to have mastered it's many complexities... you have assumed one of the most common and arrogant positions any person could take in this life! (Part of the reason those of a religious persuasion irritate me greatly)

Smart Bug

Life is a gift? From who? A god or whatever spiritual whatnot you substitute there?

F*ck that. Life is. Make of it what you will. Stop looking for meaning behind life, because there is none.

j4vier

Stewball wrote: »

If you're born healthy it is.

If not, it can be a struggle depending on your circumstances.

All life must have a meaning. Unhealthy people exist to remind healthy people how lucky they are to have health. It's amazing how people simply forget this and waste their health away.

It sounds totally unfair towards people that are unheathy by nature, perhaps there is a meaning in their existence which we can't understand.

j4vier

Raiden Tangy Maze wrote: »

Only my opinion but certainly a gift. But I know others feel differently. Stages of our lives can foster conflicting answers.

What do you think yourself? Actually debate one of your threads for a change.

I think life is a contrast, both a gift and a curse. The world can be a beautiful place or hell at the same time depending where you are. Not to mention that the joy of a birth is contrasted by the pain of a death.

Junkyard Tom

It really is winning the cosmic lottery to experience life as a sentient being, for a briefest of moments in the grand scheme of the Universe, that can look to the stars in the night sky with a sense of awe.

Life is the greatest gift we could ever hope to have - cherish the good moments.