“I wish I went to that orgy”
- I wish I’d never been born.
Agreed. Then none of this would be experienced by those who wish they didn’t have to.
I regret not being born rich, got everything else. Haha. /moneybuysmorethanhappiness /fuckcapitalism
Maybe how you dies matters but I wasn’t thinking about anything when I had my NDE like I’m busy dying I don’t have thoughts
When one of my coworkers was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, his first words were, “Damn, I wish I had drank more beer.”
Sounds like I should be skipping work to have more gay sex
Im off all day, be here in thirty?
I don’t think that’s what they’re saying, but I am completely onboard with this.
They missed out “I wish I spent more time arguing online with strangers”
Bro get the fuck out of here with that shit!
No you! You leave first! Fuck you!
Whoa, can you both please just calm down a bit. Have a think about what you’ve just said to each other. THEN GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY INTERNET.
My dad invented the internet and he says you cunts better get lost or he’ll send over the cyber police!!
Clearly you waste your time on stupid things like “friends” and “empl*yment”, instead of productive things like spending 12 hours a day complaining about video games online
Oh you wanna piece of me??? Just because I’m 38 and live with my mother doesn’t mean I’m gonna take any shit from a scumbag like you! She works hard for our living and one day I’m gonna make her proud because I finally kissed a girl! Then you’ll be sorry you messed with me!
Making a bold prediction here: in 30-40 years’ time, one of those will be replaced with something to the effect of “Waste less time on the internet”
I’ve noticed this with videogames, and tbh I’m kinda surprised more people haven’t connected it to there yet. Videogames can be a hobby, but if it’s all someone does at home for mental stimulation, I don’t forecast it’s living to the fullest. When going through a new experience, it can be memorable, yet the grind-heavy nature of most modern games doesn’t produce much for memorable moments, and often is forgotten in a month’s time save for the knowledge of how much time was spent on that.
Social media is rather similar, in that it mirrors the addictive nature of locking your attention and supplying unmemorable mental stimulation, at the cost of substantial time.
In my completely nonbiased and objective opinion that’s factual in every way: This is not healthy. I dont feel anyone will look back and say, “I wish I spent more time getting upvotes,” or “I wish I got that cool skin in the game I dont play anymore.”
I know I’m absorbed in the internet during most of my waking hours, but my real life is a hellish, traumatizing wasteland. (The experience of being trans in a car-dependant desolated city in an advanced state of capitalist alienation + severe trauma that I cannot realistically get the mental healthcare for or support here to deal with.)
I remember very little of my life. It’s like waking up from surgeries for short periods of time and experiencing little melancholic vignettes before going back under for unknown amounts of time. Laughing at stupid comments online in places like this is one of my only sources of joy.
Facing reality isn’t the solution to my situation, yet. I need sedation, and maybe then I can recover from my injuries enough to survive going through that process.
I always say it depends on the videogame. Strategy games can even be stimulating as it makes you think more.
Absolutely agree, great to see it written out so well. Took me a long time to come to this realization and part of it was playing even more assuming that the feeling was coming from not being able to spend the time on them I wanted.
Extra devious as the research for engagement and dopamine hooks only keeps improving, most games are just gambling games or choose your own adventure. I’ve found my quality of life skyrocketing switching to books and puzzles/puzzle games.
Tldr Play Tametsi, experience the joy of gaming again.
Yeah. I play a lot less videogames than I used to.
Well I’m at the halfway point of my life and only the last two apply to me, so I guess I’m doing better than I thought. Yay for me, I suppose? IDK I’m still broke and miserable like the rest of the working class, which is why #1 doesn’t count. That one is completely out of my control so long as we have billionaires.
The last one is plainly disingenious. Like, implying that yourself are the one that didn’t let yourself be happier, and not whatever shitty circumstance in your enviroment, it’s a take that a self-help writer would be happy to hear, because they only want you to feel totally responsible and guilty for everything bad that happens to you (Rhonda Byrne, I’m talking to you).
I wish I had spent more time at the bank.
You should aim to have these regrets because it’s the people who lived long enough to be interviewed on their death bed that have them. The people who died suddenly probably have regrets like “I wish I hadn’t been texting while driving.”
“I wish I had more bullet holes on my wingtips and the central section of the fuselage, and maybe some on the elevator.”
“I wish I hadn’t been pulled into the ore crushing machine by my sleeve while on the 15th hour of my shift because it’s the only way in this town to make enough money to pay for the medicine my son needs to fight the disease this town and refinery caused in him”
But I guess maybe that counts as “I wish I didn’t work so much”
If they only kill themselves, it’s a benefit to humanity
I’m a motorcyclist and I HATE people using their phones while driving
As an ex-motorcyclist and current cyclist, eyes on a swivel, everyone on the road is a fucking idiot or one distraction away from being a ton of death metal. Bike infra is so peaceful. Phones, Valium, Passenger, Sleep deprivation, whatever, just assume the worst. Situational awareness is your friend, anticipate the idiocy.
As a current motorcyclist, everyone on the road is a fucking idiot, including me
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Makes sense.
