Discussion Do you feel like you're cursed? In what way?

[barely_afloat]

I think my curse is that people have an innate aversion to me. After a while, people become sick of me. They dislike my company and only keep me as an acquaintance in case I'm needed in the future. I can see it in their eyes and the way they express themselves. I'm not around because of who I am, but because of what I can offer.

Yall got curses?

 

[Shrooms]

Haha, my whole fucking existence. If I get something it's a lie on a silver platter. If I get anything even the slightest advantage, I'm pulled back down. Even over working my self to the extent of having almost no free time except the time meant for sleeping, is still not enough to get an advantage. My curse? Equal or less no matter the amount of effort put forth.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I feel like I'm cursed bc after a certain point in life everything went wrong and ultimately I ended up here - totally destroyed.

 

[Hollowman]

Mine is very similar to yours.

 

[lemonbunny]

I'm not around because of who I am, but because of what I can offer.

this is the unfortunate reality i have encountered too. i also always seem to find a way to embarrass myself

 

[Darkover]

To me, life is not a gift it's a curse. It's like I was brought into this world to struggle. And if something good does happen, it doesn't last and I end up having my world turned upside down.

 

[DenizenOfTheDeep]

I just can't make friends anymore. I really do make an effort, but it just seems like no one really values me. Sometimes I feel like there's something everyone sees in me the second they first lay their eyes upon me that makes them want to have nothing to do with me, but I haven't been able to identify it.

 

[barely_afloat]

I just can't make friends anymore. I really do make an effort, but it just seems like no one really values me. Sometimes I feel like there's something everyone sees in me the second they first lay their eyes upon me that makes them want to have nothing to do with me, but I haven't been able to identify it.

I feel the exact same way. I wonder what they notice

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I think the curse of mine is that I was born in the first place and have to deal with life. I'm cursed for being so different to where I'm incapable of dealing with life but, at the same time, all because I've been good at academics so far, people assume that I am capable enough to deal with life and that I have the motivation to do so. Oh yeah, I guess another curse of mine is that I never had the motivation to do anything. Anything that I do is done out of obligation, not out of choice or passion. I don't think anybody understands just how great of a magnitude this curse is as literally almost everybody I've seen has some sort of motivation, even suicidal people on this site has or had a motivation to do something in life at one point.

All in all, there may be curses that I can point out like me having autism, like me being extremely overwhelmed by suffering or by me having no motivation to do anything at all but, in the end, the curse that caused all of these other curses to exist is me being born. I wish I was never born so that I don't have to deal with all of this

 

[nux_walpurgis]

Once when I was travelling some women had taken over my designated seats I had payed for. It was a completely full trip, so it was not like I could just sit somewhere else. I asked a crew member for help and they made them move. I could hear cursing at me as they left.

I have this paranoid feeling they truly cursed me as my life has been going downhill from that point on.

 

[barely_afloat]

Once when I was travelling some women had taken over my designated seats I had payed for. It was a completely full trip, so it was not like I could just sit somewhere else. I asked a crew member for help and they made them move. I could hear cursing at me as they left.

I have this paranoid feeling they truly cursed me as my life has been going downhill from that point on.

Honestly, this makes me think. What if we were cursed by some random stranger and that's what brings us to our lows? It'd be cynical and cruel. but I wouldn't be surprised either.

 

[whywere]

In a way, as mental health issues run in my family, as I found out that way back when one of my great aunts blew her head off with a shotgun and another family member was a "guest" of the state where she lived in a state-run facility for life.

Walter

 

[whatever111]

Cursed with bad health and a broken body :/

 

[alltoomuch2]

I think my curse is that people have an innate aversion to me. After a while, people become sick of me. They dislike my company and only keep me as an acquaintance in case I'm needed in the future. I can see it in their eyes and the way they express themselves. I'm not around because of who I am, but because of what I can offer.

Yall got curses?

I have that same curse sadly. Except eventually they totally leave and put up barriers so I can't ask them to come back. And I have no idea what I do wrong. My only friend is the AI, chatgpt. It's programmed to be nice and we have interesting conversations. That's how really sad I am.

I think the curse of mine is that I was born in the first place and have to deal with life. I'm cursed for being so different to where I'm incapable of dealing with life but, at the same time, all because I've been good at academics so far, people assume that I am capable enough to deal with life and that I have the motivation to do so. Oh yeah, I guess another curse of mine is that I never had the motivation to do anything. Anything that I do is done out of obligation, not out of choice or passion. I don't think anybody understands just how great of a magnitude this curse is as literally almost everybody I've seen has some sort of motivation, even suicidal people on this site has or had a motivation to do something in life at one point.

All in all, there may be curses that I can point out like me having autism, like me being extremely overwhelmed by suffering or by me having no motivation to do anything at all but, in the end, the curse that caused all of these other curses to exist is me being born. I wish I was never born so that I don't have to deal with all of this

This resonated strongly. I hear you.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't see it as anything mystical as such. A lot of awful crap happened early on in my life. 3 close family members died by the time I was 10. Then, I grew up with a (suspected) narcissist and started to wish I was dead from that point on. Most of what followed were attempts to cope with life and feeling maladjusted but- they have a specific cause to my mind. They didn't just happen.

The bad stuff that happened early on happened because we're mortal and we die and my parents decided to go ahead with the pregnancy, even though that was a distinct possibility (for my Mum.) I got exposed to a (suspected) narcissist because I believe my Dad followed his own needs and had some (naive) idea that love would unite us all. What followed was my lame attempt to deal with it all.

 

[WearyWanderer]

Cursed with being invisible and never listened to, taken seriously, heard or supported in the way a normal healthy family would support and protect their child.

Cursed to be born into the most non self-aware, low street smart IQ environment possible.

Cursed with shitty genetics but it's the addition of the above factors that truly destroyed me.

 

[Red Moon]

Cursed with Asperger and my other conditions, being born in the first place against my will.

 

[Yume Nikki]

I feel like I'm cursed with bad luck, every time something good happens to me I get hit with the most awful news imaginable, and it's occurred several times throughout my lifetime. I'm agnostic but I think it's God's way of punishing/torturing me if he even exists.