You literally already experienced drowning once just by being alive. Where you expecting that to happen? Have you even for a second considered that you might drown AGAIN and survive AGAIN if you continue to live? Or that you might experience things that add up to being just as bad?
It seems like your life has already given you much more suffering than a single case of drowning to death, and yet you still continue to hold out.
Which you should. Life is worth 100 drownings. I'm just struggling to understand how you can claim that life is a curse while simultaneously being unwilling to go through proportional suffering to end it.
I think you are like me. You must realize on some level that suffering is just a preview, not the real thing. Suffering only gets its badness from the fact that it is so closely associated with death. We experience a thousand things every day: the touch of our clothes on our body, the sun on our skin, the air in our lungs, the food we eat, the multitude of sounds all around us, the vision in our eyes...
How come out of all of those experiences, the ones that we react so negatively to are the ones that have to do with us being injured? Is it possible that inside of us we care about reality first and foremost and that our experiences are nothing more than an arbitrary window to that reality?
Scoundrel
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2026-06-21 20:13:23 UTC
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