Jordan Peterson - Is Life Worth The Suffering?

Being requires limitation and suffering, but there are modes of being that allow that to be good.

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[felixf]

The worst type of life is not when you suffer, but when you suffer and never enjoy anything. I hate depression because of this. My worst days feel awful and my best days feel empty.

[luffydragneel]

I almost cried when he said that we desire to be like the one's who fight heroically because it's real

[ethereal]

I want to die but I'm trapped in this life by the ones I love. I couldn't do that to them. So I'm just going to have to make my life better.

[benk]

Why do we even exist. I haven't found a reason strong enough to support our presence in this universe. Like we are born, we grow up, get stressed, pay fees to be here in the name of bills and then die. What's the point.

[JobBouwman]

The worst suffering is the fear of future suffering.

[xomegaxz]

I'm just surviving so my parents wont feel sad if i suicide. I'd off myself already if it wasn't for my parents or family. So I'm not living my life at all

Short update here i guess in 2021.
I'm 22 y.o soon this year and I'm here to say it did not get any better since i made that comment :).

[HasnainF]

I am not depressed but to me life seems very meaningless. Of course I can have fun and enjoy. Of course I can work hard. Of course I can study law or become a volunteer to help, but to what end? I simply cannot end the world hunger, nor the infinite amount of cruelty.
I don't really know what it all means, why are we all here on Earth and why are we doing the things we're doing and to what end.

[jozefkucera]

"Life is hard, but we can make it harder" - Viagra

[reg]

I can describe it all in two words. "Life sucks."

[markc]

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

[KushMyCologneee]

Suffering is all there is. The universe did not come into existence for the sake of our happiness. We are simply a product of the universe. A tiny footnote in the cosmic theater.

[easternsunguitarist]

Another beautiful lecture. Again. I'm 27. Lugging slowly to suicide. Unable to cope with existence. Jordan Peterson. Thankyou. I feel like I need an excuse.. To accept my past and my present limitations. To accept my self hate and everything else. Your giving me the tools

[khyati]

As someone suffering from depression and suicide ideation, i can confirm i think the same way..even if my life may not look that screwed up to others, i have seen screwed up lives of other people which isnt even their fault and cant help but wonder what if that was me....there have been times when i was desperate to just end everything because i was so afraid of living and facing people and uncertainty and thinking about how in the future these problems will only increase

[Jackie-nttq]

Anyone look up “Why is Life Worth Living” and get here?

[ahmedhalim]

I really really hate motivational speakers. I used to like them when I was a teenager but now I just think they're yet another tool for society to keeps us in line.
In every society, there's a model, an image that you should be or should aspire to be and If you have a problem with that then you're ill, you need treatment and the treatment is to try to be like the image you hated so much.
But clearly, you are not ill, the world is ill. I just wish that I could do something about it but I realized that I can't, nobody can.

[BarnAvDenWebb]

This is why I won't have children, only adopt, because, bringing a child into this world will only lead to them being full of despair and sadness, but adopting will be giving someone who is at their saddest a home and some hope, I rather give, then take away for the human need to pass a bloodline.

[TomHodges]

Jordan Peterson suffers from depression so he not only speaks from an intellectual level but an experience level as well. Phenomenal man...

[sirgalalot]

This is the greatest thing i've ever watched, period.

[CorynthianLeather]

So many existential thoughts I've been struggling with. Yet I've never given up hope. I see my family and friends and know that I WILL get over these compulsive thoughts. I'm just not there yet

[tappy]

This why I'm nt going to have childern, cause I don't want any1 to live the life I am living