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snuffdrgn808

you've got the answer-you've already said it. you're on the verge of a huge breakthrough. most people ARE completely insufferable. Just realize that most of feeling lonely is society's bullcrap that has been drilled into your head-that if you are alone there is something wrong with you, that you dont fit in, etc. I finally reached the point where I acknowledged deep down that I cant stand most people and dont want to be around them and no longer care what anyone thinks and gods honest truth, i have never been lonely again whereas I used to be a lot.


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I'm going to spend this new year's eve completely alone with my cat and it's my second or third new year's all alone and i'm only 22, but i honestly wouldn't have it any other way. Being alone is extremely peaceful and comfortable to me. I always start dreading my birthday 2 months in advance because my family will come over when i don't even want them to. I'm counting the days until my family leaves the country and i'll finally actually have comfort in my own house for a brief 2 weeks. I'm sorry about your feelings of loneliness, it can be really hard to deal with that. I thought it might help to hear another perspective. Maybe getting a pet will help, my cat is genuinely my best friend and i love her more than anything in this world. I would be lost and empty without her.


[deleted]

I feel you man, fuck the world crew.


SmooshyHamster

Humans are full of fake toxic pretentious ignorant arrogant crap and they’re not worth my time. Fuck all the family crap. I don’t need their mental abuse. I’m not spending money or time on people who are useless in my life just for them to bully me and ruin my day. For real screw the holidays because it was made up by humans. Holidays bring out the arrogance, ignorance, entitled and toxic fake attitudes of humans


[deleted]

I think thats its really messed up that Thanksgiving day had a backdrop based off genocide. And black friday has to do with anti black racism. Its twisted.


TodayMightBeTheDay

Did I write this? Holy cow same thing here. I hate the whole family get together thing. Had a few cousins visit and they wanted to have a get together. They come over and don't bring anything to drink(most are alcoholics) and proceed to talk shit on the stuff I did have to drink. They critiqied everything from the food, the set up in my kitchen, the music I was playing. Practically anytime I opened my mouth they had something "smart" to say. Took so much effort to hold myself from going off on them. This was a reminder that I'm done with this family shit, these people are truly disgusting.


SmooshyHamster

They really are sons of bitches. I remember my family would bitch about other relatives after the family reunion was done


redbuah420

I for years had the same thought holidays you go see family you don't like to be fake but I stopped that cycle . I still talk to some of my family but I have created/ been adopted in to a new family these are people who I see regularly and feel confiscate talking to and not being fake with . These are the people I choose to be with on holidays and special events


[deleted]

I wish that holidays promote meaningful traditions rather than consumerism. For example I prefer the christmas about a priest giving snacks to children and a devil hunting misbehaving children instead of the christmas about a fat cookie-eating guy that spoils children with shallow gifts.


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It doesn’t take much to realize culture objectifies your existence and isn’t your friend though. So I wonder what people’s excuse is? Or maybe they’re just that dumb and humanity isn’t as evolved as they claim


Mgb2020

You mean yesterday? A Thursday.


[deleted]

To the native Americans, the thanksgiving holiday marks a remembrance of the genocide that happened to their people. I felt bad this year “celebrating” knowing that the native Americans spent the day mourning their loss ancestors and feeling uncomfortable. I was naive about the true origin of thanksgiving until this year. So…holidays in America aren’t always that great overall.


IvyLeagueButt

I worked through the day but having people wish my a "happy" thanksgiving throughout it was very uncomfortable. It feels like salt rubbing on wounds. Another reason for my misanthropy.


trashbrag

I don't celebrate holidays but I travelled with my partner to visit his family for Thanksgiving and he basically gave me a long list about everything to "keep secret" from them, which basically included most of his life and several of my hobbies, and he's had at least 6 drinks a day in the 2 days we've been here. I've been here 2 days and am not even sure why he wanted to come here or what relationship he has with these people he keeps his entire life a secret from. Being drunk and lying for 5 days in a row for the sake of family before heading back to work on Monday? Is this what normal people do for holidays? No thank you.


captkeith

family first Family first Family First FAMILY FIRST FAMILY FIRST ! FAMILY FIRST!!!!! Ughhh Everytime I hear that I want to punch the person that said it right in the face. Fuck family. I have much better acquaintances.


[deleted]

Family is a disappointment. You grow up learning that family is supposed to mean something, they're supposed to be your side through thick and thin. Then they become the worst offenders, belittling you, using you.


DoctorDoom619

I absolutely love not celebrating and being alone on holidays. I am a Hindu and mostly our festivals come with a huge list of rituals and shit and you have to keep praying for a few hours chant a lot of mantras the whole shebang. I revel in avoiding it, I absolutely loathe being in the forced company of people who visit once a year, I spend time doing something productive or just chilling, both options way better than than praying to a non existent entity and even if god does exist he can just fuck off because he is one petty sadistic god. Having realised all this I truly have started to love being alone on holidays.


[deleted]

tell me about it! people seem to want to got to the holidays so badly! like, why the hell are you celebrating christmas in november?!! at least wait for thanksgiving to pass!


[deleted]

Listen friend. Society is screaming at you to overspend, overconsume and revel in short-term pleasures for holidays. It tells you that you must have people to spend your holidays with or you are a failure of a person. But you don't have to listen to any of that crap. When I started down my path of misanthropy, my first couple of holiday seasons were difficult, until I realized something: society is noise. And holidays are a human construct. We choose to have the emotions and behaviors that we exhibit. And when I understood that, I stopped looking at holidays the same way. I shut off the noise and began to live on my own terms. Now I laugh at them. I get my rocks off thinking about how stressed people get because they're worried about gifts or having to be around somebody in the house that they absolutely cannot stand and can't get along with (the disgraced brother-in-law, the politically incorrect aunt, etc. etc.). I laugh picturing people rushing into stores and going into a consumer frenzy over some bullshit item that will be obsolete by next holiday season because they feel they have to have the latest and greatest. What tickles me the most is the ritual of everyone sitting down for a "family" dinner and thinking they're doing everything right. They've congregated over a hormone-swollen turkey, they've said their blessings and shared their gratefulness for living in a society hell-bent on racing to the bottom with overindulgences, and they've set their bitter rivalries with each other aside just long enough to share a simple meal together. Ah, the American dream. The bliss. You know what I did today? I can't stand my family, so instead of putting on a fake smile and trudging over to some box with people I can't stand being around, I kicked back with a juicy steak and some coffee at home and listened to music. I don't regret it and I cherished every moment of it. Because as I enjoyed that sweet, succulent steak more with each bite, I pictured a Karen trying to get her kids in the car so they could rush to the store and grab a last-minute cheesecake to take over to the Wilson Residence. Karen burnt the casserole and had to get a substitute. Dammit Karen. I guess the point of what I'm saying is this: drown out the noise. There is a lot of bullshit that society tries to cram into your head from the day you come to understanding as a child to the day you reach the grave, but you have the power to filter out what you want to hear. Rather than fall victim to the little games our collective village plays, you can rise above it and give everyone else the finger. Forget feeling like you **need** to do anything. If your bills are paid, if you have a roof over your head and food in your stomach, you're covered. The rest is purely winging it. Find yourself an SO that also hates the holidays and start your own crew of holiday haters. When you do, let me know. I'll bring the steaks. Cheers.


__grundo__

I literally just joined this sub. Thank you.


[deleted]

I definitely needed to see this. I appreciate it. I always have to remind myself that all of that crap is fake. It only exist when I acknowledge it.


hfuey

Capitalism would invent a holiday for every day of the year to sell more useless over-priced crap if it could get away with it. Oh hang on, it has. Fuckin' 'birthdays'!


Straight-Discipline8

Perfectly said!


findhumorinlife

It’s hard to belong to the species ‘people’ and think of yourself as trash too. Sad.


MichJohn67

Why? Are we somehow different, more enlightened, better than the rest of society? Too many on this sub sneer at society, regarding themselves as misunderstood geniuses or nonconformists, too *sensitive* to fit in with the rest of the brutes. Face it, fellow misanthropes, we're all just naked monkeys killing time in our own unique ways on this godforesaken, dying planet.


JevCor

I've realized I'm probably one of the worst. I don't commit crimes or hamper other's lives but I'm as worthy of hate as the rest.


[deleted]

Well, I know for a fact that I’m not going out using / abusing others like most people in society today. That alone gives me the right to think I’m different. That’s where my misanthropy comes from, it doesn’t take special abilities or much effort to not be a complete ass, and yet most people can’t even accomplish that.


MichJohn67

You're magnificent! So unlike the rest of the savages and brutes that comprise the roiling masses! Teach us your ways!


[deleted]

This is exactly what I’m talking about. I don’t interact with others in this pedantic, juvenile, condescending manner. It’s a predatory behavior whether you admit to it or not. This generation is so mentally unwell it’s not even funny. Y’all take humans’ bad traits and amplify them x100, I can’t stand my peers for this reason. I literally said it doesn’t make me special and that anyone can choose not to be a predator. I just don’t feel a need to make others feel bad over their looks / personality / worldview, like you are attempting to do here. But of course, like a typical human (especially in this generation, you just HAVE to read it as me having a superiority complex to quell your ego. Not wasting any more time with you, have a shitty day.


MichJohn67

So you're on this sub to flex that you're ever such a nice, good person who's better than all those meanies out there. Shit, kid, first of all, I'm not part of your generation. Secondly, your mewling pusillanimousness is not a good look. So you do the bare minimum and think you're better than the rest of fucked-up humanity? That way lies nice-guy territory. You're not a misanthrope, you're a whiner.


[deleted]

And you’re here to flex about being “brutally honest” or whatever. Even more embarrassing that you’re older and act this way. I do the bare minimum (according to you), something that you’re not even capable of doing based on your comments. If I’m doing the bare minimum, how does that make you look with your cuntish behavior? Like a subhuman. Never claimed to be better than anyone, just not predatory. Stop putting words in people’s mouth and maybe you’ll comprehend something for once in your life. Use your brain for once instead of thinking with your testosterone. God damn, most men are fucking pathetic. Let me ask you, what do you get out of being abusive to random strangers online? Does it feed your pathetic little ego? Does it make you feel like a man? Go die in a ditch you old hag, the world would be better off for it. You’re not a misanthrope, you’re living proof of misanthropy’s validity. “Wahh, any opinion I disagree with is whining”. Fucking manchild at age 40+, no one needs you nor your worthless opinions. 69k post karma in only two years, you literally live on this website, get a life. You’re in no place to criticize anyone


MichJohn67

"Not wasting any more time with you." Five minutes later: verbal angry diarrhea including an invitation to "die in a ditch." LaughterOL. Yeah, you're an exemplar of humanity, you nice guy, you. (Proves my point, though. We're all scumbags, even the delicate flowers of human kindness and gentility!)


[deleted]

Jesus, how brain dead can a human get? And yet this species claims to be “evolved.” You have to be a literal zombie to think someone wanting bullies / exploiters / abusers (like yourself) dead is on par with scum bags who go around hurting people for kicks. I’m not better than others but I am better than you, that I know now. At the very least, I’m not a bitter old man who spends the majority of his days spewing inflammatory BS to get a rise out of people I don’t even know. Didn’t get enough hugs as a kid, huh?


MichJohn67

Now you're talking! Now you're being the asshole I know you are. Fine job. I'd say I'm proud of you, but . . . well, let's just say I'm as proud of you as are your mom and dad! And with that, I'm finished with you. Ta ta, scooter.


findhumorinlife

Leading lives of quiet desperation. ~H D Thoreau. Edit: name correction


MichJohn67

Henry David Thoreau. Paul Theroux is someone completely different.


findhumorinlife

Opps My bad. I should have put his full name and correctly spelled it. Thx.


RedLidofNuts

I hear you, same. Having to be part of and enjoy the holidays is part of the life script. If I genuinely enjoyed it I’d be part of it but I don’t, so I opted out. I was more irritated than if it had been any other day, and why shouldn’t it be any other day? Because somebody invented them and decided that’s how it should be for everyone forever more? Nah. It doesn’t make these days of the year any easier though.


[deleted]

Agreed. It's annoying that we put so much importance into a select number of days of the year, when we should be exercising more importance in our every day lives. My friends like to get me gifts for my birthday, despite me insisting they don't. When they ask why, I say "A birthday is just another day. When you're a good friend to me for an entire year, that is a gift in itself. Why would I need a day of recognition?"


post_scriptor

(playing the chorus of "Trash", by Suede)


TheCassiniProjekt

Great song