Do you regret having been born?

[Langdell]

When I was an atheist, I frequently wished I’d never been born. It was almost my constant state of mind. I don’t feel that way anymore, however, because now I have HOPE.

 

[Alberti_Devoveo]

I occasionally regret having been born in this particular era, but never altogether.

 

[MikiBee]

Sometimes I do. I try to be as good of a person as I can, I go to mass at least weekly, go to reconciliation often, pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet (belong to Divine Mercy prayer group even)… I pray a lot, but there are times I get this thought that even after that I might end up in hell or some afterlife that is no better or worse than life on earth. To me, even being alive on this earth for an eternity would be hell. If I was never born, none of this would be an issue. I wouldn’t have ever existed to know what I was missing.

Sometimes I’m very glad to be alive, especially those times when my heart swells with love over my children, and without me, there would be no them.

And yet there are other times when I don’t wish I never lived, but wish I would die (Not that I want to or would ever consider suicide), just because I get weary of life… it seems so very long, and I want to be in heaven.

Tough question. I think to a certain extent, most people have wished they never existed at least once.

 

[Khalid]

As an erratum to my previous posts: if I had never existed, I never would have been able to read a book. That’s almost enough to tip the scale.

 

[tonyrey]

How can you be as dumb as you say, when your English is so clearly superior to dozens of people, including many here on this forum? “Cognitive mediocrity” sounds like a circumlocution that would proceed from mine own mouth, and I’m one of those “most talented amongst us” according to the standardized scales.

The only things I can imagine are: you either vastly underestimate yourself, or you have a learning disability that affects your ability learn repetitive tasks in some way or hinders acquisition of crystallized intelligence or some specific measure of performance ability, but doesn’t negatively affect your general fluid intelligence (in which case professionals may be able to help).

:thumbsup:

 

[tonyrey]

Seeing as I could have been aborted, but my biological mother instead placed me for adoption, I never regret having been born. My bio. mother told me about the girls from her home town who aborted around the same time she realised she was pregnant with me…

It strikes close to home for sure. Life is hard, it can get harder, but I’m glad I’m alive.

Your post makes us even more aware of how privileged we are!

 

[Robertanthony]

To continue along the lines of what Khalid wrote in his last post: watching *It’s a Wonderful LIfe *at Christmas, gazing at countless stars in a pitch-black sky, drinking cold water when one is really thirsty, the prospect of eternal bliss with the Trinity to behold and all of our deepest aspirations satisfied, the distant memory of this vapour of a life when time has given way to eternity, those are almost enough to tip the scale

 

[Job42]

To any extent?

Ask me in the next life and I will give you my final answer

 

[prodigalson2011]

To continue along the lines of what Khalid wrote in his last post: watching *It’s a Wonderful LIfe *at Christmas, gazing at countless stars in a pitch-black sky, drinking cold water when one is really thirsty, the prospect of eternal bliss with the Trinity to behold and all of our deepest aspirations satisfied, the distant memory of this vapour of a life when time has given way to eternity, those are almost enough to tip the scale

“Rumors of angels” are what one writer called these little ecstacies.

 

[Robertanthony]

Ask me in the next life and I will give you my final answer

Very clever and wise answer, in the final analysis, eternity is really all that matters.

“Rumors of angels” are what one writer called these little ecstacies.

Beautiful expression.

Side note, you puzzled me with your “Red Stick”, until I thought of the French words for both of these terms. Your secret is safe with me!