Cynical but Strangely Comforting Website

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Hey everyone. I found this website; it's a personal site someone wrote just for the heck of it, or to combat the sickly sweet cliches that society puts out. It's on http://www.lifesucks.info/index.htm. The site is kind of simplistic, without fancy graphics, but the writing is very nice. It's bitter and jaded, but not depressing, and I found it strangely comforting to read. So I thought I'd share this with all of you; it's especially appropriate in a forum like The Haven. You can even e-mail the author, but he says he doesn't respond back.

That's not depressing?!?! I just read it and now I'm pretty thoroughly depressed, no offense.

Try http://www.fmylife.com/

I'm...not the kind of bloke that clicks links.. Nor am I a pessimist.

If you want to hop into a black hole hoping there's sugarpillows at the bottom, go riiight ahead.




No, I'm serious, that there's the dilemma in non-web terms.

Will wholeheartedly agree with Television Sucks.
That's why I don't own one - my home is a "Television Free Zone".

Have read of other families and individuals who have dispensed with the "idiot box" and found themselves with time to:
become a volunteer in their community
go to places as a family
and other positive and uplifting actions.

To me, that article can be described as a downer meant to inspire action which leads to uppers.

I so totally get what you mean about it being "cynical but strangely comforting", Aspie1!

I spent two and a bit years ( from autumn 2005 to Jan 2008 ) telling myself "Life is pain; anyone who tells you different is selling something", and "Life is s**t", ( as statements of "fact", for me, without thinking of it as whingeing ). It cheered me up no end, ... really!

But finding out about aspergers, and joining WP, in summer 2007, and then going back on a gluten-free diet, ( Sept 2007 till now ), and then in Jan/Feb 2008 realising that free will does not exist, have cheered me up so much that most of the time I don't need those mantras anymore.

But they were like mantras for a while; very important touchstones for me. It was such a huge relief to stop trying to be "positive", about people, the world, etc.

It was so wonderful to "validate" my personal experience of life/the world, for a change, rather than constantly contradicting/criticising/denying/disagreeing with what I felt and saw at every moment. Rather than being like the sort of very irritating person who, when you say "I have nothing to live for", says; " Oh but you have! You have ... x, y, z", I suddenly accepted that life really was s**t, for me. I felt so much happier!

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