I wish I could say you're wrong, but it appears to have been that way my entire life. However, you can't take advantage of luck and timing if you never make an effort to do anything and just sit inside all day.

Thomas Edison (inventor of the light bulb) said:
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. ... I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
- On his years of research in developing the electric light bulb, as quoted in "Talks with Edison" by George Parsons Lathrop in Harpers magazine, Vol. 80 (February 1890), p. 425

Without that advancement, we might never have the inventions of today.


In other words, most of the time you can try and give your all and get squat. It's all about getting lucky. You just have to keep trying new things until something sticks or you're in the right place or you meet the right person.

You can take advantage of luck and timing by doing absolutely nothing at all. Everything depends on your destiny. Our ancestors a long time ago knew this(ancient Romans, ancient Greeks etc)... The Vikings knew this too. That is why their warriors were fearless. Sadly. since the dark ages, humanity has become very ignorant... I blame Christianity... Think of it this way.... We are all actors in a movie... The movie has already been released on fucking DVD... The DVD is playing....

If you think life sucks, wait until you die. Death really sucks. I don't speak from experience of course, but my (dead) friends have told me.

Seriously though, I hope these brighten your day, even though I'm sure everyone their grandmother have seen these million times already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVaO-64gX0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LQS4E_PVoE

Ive sometimes thought it was like that, but as someone taught me, have to think about both sides of the coin when something happens - there is always a positive even when something negative happens (the silver lining thing). Just keep trying as well - sometimes its luck, sometimes its perserverance. Try to keep smiling and be positive.

I'm curious, but what exactly is on your CV?

There's a difference between life sucking and sucking at life. There's a difference between being that starving kid in Africa, that kidnapped person in a cage, or that person born with serious medical ailments and just being a failure/loser, an armchair pessimist, or a lazy person with no direction. Some need genuine help, while the rest need to just grow a pair.

Haha. Now THIS is what I call sucking at life.

See, Kristian, take comfort in not being MaximumBunny, and stop offering such people opportunities to feel all superior.

If you had some disagreement, you failed to state it and are just making yourself look like an ass.

This made me laugh out loud. It's just fantastic that your next post had to be this.

Expectation and attachment to results brings about a lot of "pain" and "disappointment" and "life sucks" stuff.

Nothing is inherently good or bad, and absolutely nothing outside of ourselves really has the power to make us happy or sad.

It is all in how you interpret whatever happens in your life - notice that I didn't say "whatever happens to you". If you think life happens to you, you're fooling yourself.

True, we certainly can't control other peoples' actions, but we can control how we choose to respond.

And that's another thing: do you act or react? If your life is just a series of reactions, well, then you're not living consciously or intentionally, so then of course it's easy to get into the "everyone is out to get me" mindset.

People with very little find ways to be happy. People with excess find ways to be miserable. What does that tell you? And no, I'm not talking about the amount of stuff one has.

I would like to stress that booze and multiple sexual partners, preferably at the same time is a great stress reliever.

Wait until you are looking after your Mentally ILL parent since 1999 till 2014 and you tell me if Life is HOPELESS or not been Looking after my Mentally ILL Mother the past 15 years taking every day as it comes had to put my life on hold indefinitely to help my mother.

My dreams, Hopes and Desires SHATTERED when the doctors told me "You will have to Look after your mother for the rest of your life" when I was just 16 years old it was like they slammed the prison doors shut on my life! I'm always getting there. Getting there always, I don't know where there is but I'm getting there another day another Nail in my coffin, who knows I could be dead tomorrow. I never chose to be born anyway, it just kinda happened. Like how my Mothers Psychosis happened that I helped her overcome.

Like when the kids at High school used to mutilate and Maul me with makeshift weapons and makeshift explosives when I was 13 years old and they were 17 and 18 years old (in Australia we do NOT have Middle school) it's Kindergarten to year 6 then year 7 to year 12 how the Lebanese and Italians used to blow me up shoot me with Nail guns and revolvers and Pretty much tear me to shreds it was fun getting my guts slashed open with a serrated kitchen knife looking at my intestines hanging out of my body threading the slashed Fucking intestines through themselves so I didn't die the ones that were cut longways I just had to leave them alone couldn't even swallow water for at least three to six months my body felt like a dried out HUSK I was so weak yet I still had to wake up in the mornings and go to high school just to be mowed down again and again, Fun anyone! I have a permanently broken shoulder socket that will need physiotherapy when I'm older because someone thought it would be fun to break it at high school.

Then when I was 21 I got my skull shattered by two thugs tanked up on crystal meth and wild turkey bourbon that took off with my mothers pension at 2am because I hadn't eaten anything in a week or slept in a week because I was so hungry and weak and my mother was so mentally ILL that she made me trek to the late night service (gas) station that was 16 kilometers away and I died 3 times on the way to hospital in the ambulance and had my teeth splinering off in my gums for years after until I eventually got most of them removed but have to go back to another dentist because the dentist I was with lanced a nerve cluster in my lower left jawbone at the back that made the whole left side of my body feel like it was gradually being set on fire and left me with serious digestive problems (feels like appendicitis and starts in LOWER RIGHT HAND abdomen but the pain moves around my body can be anywhere at any time)

so yeah I'm getting there I hate my life some days I wish I were DEAD so I don't have to put up with this hideous agony I'm going through, But then I guess I'm being selfish because my mother needs me to run the household like I've been doing for the last 15 odd years!

Just like duke said:

"Life's a bitch, and then YOU die"

that was ASH in Evil Dead

When life sucks, make sure it swallows.