hope rly is dangerous

[iftheworldwasending]

i'm sorry i cannot remember who made the original post, but they said that hope was a dangerous thing and every time i think about it, it makes me cry.
i go through periods where i think things really are getting better, and then i realize that hope i had was truly for nothing. at the end of our lives, we've gone through happiness and pain, and we die anyway. why does something else in life get to decide when we've seen enough pain and happiness?

seems unfair at times. you never know if you'll miss out on something amazing one day if you CTB too soon. it's scary. hope is hard.

 

[PeacefulTonic]

Yeah I hate hope. I wanted to ctb this month but this extremely tiny shred of hope is keeping me going, probably not for much longer though

 

[looseye]

It's a seemingly endless cycle of daydreaming about wonderful things that have an ever so slight chance of coming true, just to get disappointed big time and move on to the next daydream

 

[TheHatedOne]

Hope is sister to optimism, you have a huge expectation but then you're let down if you get me correctly. It suuucks.

 

[OpheliasFlowers]

Hope really is such a double edged sword. Hope kept me around a lot longer than I now, in retrospect, wish it had...but at the same time, it's what kept me going for a long time because I'd always hoped things were going to get better in various areas of my life (I guess I really, truly believed they would...). Years ago, I was grateful for having hope. But instead, everything in my life only continued to get worse and many (many, many, MANY) times throughout the years, it would appear something good WAS actually happening for/to me -- but then ultimately, it was only a cruel setup designed to yank the run out from under me and disappoint me yet again when everything went to shit or failed or I screwed things up. So hope was "good" for me, in a way, yet hope has destroyed me hundreds upon hundreds of times over to the point where now I don't bother to actively hope and if I ever feel any tiny glimmer of hope about anything I squash it immediately by reminding myself of all the failed, dead hopes of my past.

Hope can F off.

 

[Darkover]

hope we come from realms of unimaginable power and light and that we will return to them realms
everything that has a beginning has an end
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.
optimism is just reality planning to kill you

 

[ClownMe]

The old saying, "it's the hope that kills you" definetly applies to suicidal people, we have a lack of hope which makes us want to die, but when we get closer to committing suicide we get a glimmer of hope which prolongs our suffering. Hope sure is a dangerous thing.

 

[FuneralCry]

I see hope as depressing. It is just something to lose and end up causing you more pain. At this point, I have accepted that everything is hopeless for me. Any hope would be delusional. Things will get worse for me and that is a fact.

 

[O Mundo É Um Moinho]

Hope already made me go through a lot of horrible situations in my life, and it is so fucked up that i started putting myself into situations that i know it will end bad for me just for the sake of being rock bottom enough to give up everything and abandon any idea of things getting better

 

[Snake of Eden]

I forgone hope long time ago. All what is keeping me now is fear.

 

[fox_wannabe]

you never know if you'll miss out on something amazing one day if you CTB too soon.

I stopped thinking anything worthwhile will happen to me. Maybe after death it will lol

 

[Scribble Fan]

I always cling to hope... that's why I'm still here suffering. Life pretends to get better but then reality hits me in the face. When will I learn that hope never fails to let me down?

 

[Starryeyes]

Suicide notes on bridges

' hope. Hold on. Pain ends'

DOES IT FUCK.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

At some point hope turns into delusion. Thinking it will magically get better one day is pure escapism. You get drunk on your own delusions after a while.

 

[WhatDoesTheFoxSay?]

Even though it's been mentioned before, I thought I'd share this.

Below is Friedrich Nietzsche's aphorism on hope from Human, All Too Human, Section Two: On the History of Moral Feelings, #71

71 Hope. Pandora brought the jar with the evils and opened it. It was the gods' gift to man, on the outside a beautiful, enticing gift, called the "lucky jar." Then all the evils, those lively, winged beings, flew out of it. Since that time, they roam around and do harm to men by day and night. One single evil had not yet slipped out of the jar. As Zeus had wished, Pandora slammed the top down and it remained inside. So now man has the lucky jar in his house forever and thinks the world of the treasure. It is at his service; he reaches for it when he fancies it. For he does not know that that jar which Pandora brought was the jar of evils, and he takes the remaining evil for the greatest worldly good--it is hope, for Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment.

 

[eternalmelancholy]

Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment.

Hopium. Lets you escape in the same way narcotics do. Just not as fun.

 

[WhatDoesTheFoxSay?]

Hopium. Lets you escape in the same way narcotics do. Just not as fun.

So Zeus is a tyrant, manwhore and drug lord thrown into one? The ancient Greeks sure had a wild imagination.


Somewhere up there, watching reality TV is a pastime of the Gods. Divine Entertainment Ltd must thrive on our addiction to hopium.

 

[iftheworldwasending]

Hope already made me go through a lot of horrible situations in my life, and it is so fucked up that i started putting myself into situations that i know it will end bad for me just for the sake of being rock bottom enough to give up everything and abandon any idea of things getting better

this is exactly what i find myself doing these days. taking less of my prozac on purpose, ruining relationships, being impulsive. this is where i am too.