Comment on Everything happens for a reason
moon@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
Very little of your life is actually in your control
I accept this as true for billions of people. How can those in destitute poverty do anything but survive?
But, say, upper-middle class westerners? Add in the most positive family dynamics and you seem to have an immense amount of free agency.
Curious if you agree or not :)
I would say there are limits to what one can easily achieve from their starting point in life, but your statement is so fatalistic that anyone who believes it might aswell stop trying and just give up on life.
Bizarroland@kbin.social 11 months ago
Imagine that you're starting now.
The universe was created as-is, ex nihilo, 5 minutes ago.
What can you do to make your life better?
Not a lot. Some things, but not a lot.
saboteur@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I believe you have to think a little more long term before submitting to the idea that “I can’t change anything”.
Can I change things in the next 1 hour? If you’re broke now, probably yes you will still be broke after 1 hour.
But that’s not how life works. We go to schools and develop ourselves in other ways, to have a better life 10 or 20 years later.