You ever read so many horrible things that you just have to step back and say "fuck it."

[Gravitycollapse]

Well, fuck it. Fuck everything. Everything is fucked.

I feel a little better. Feel free to make this your fuck it thread.

[polichick]

1. It's why humans are my least favorite species...

An incredible planet like this, with endless beauty and gifts, and humans just can't help fucking it all up.

[Skittles]

2. yes, and I feel like it is getting worse

I really think that more and more, people are behaving in ways that make no sense

[MoonRiver]

3. I feel it every minute of every day.

Prayer and meditation, plus a little wine at the end of the day, help.

It's a fucked up world out there.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Yes.

I walked away from everything and everyone a few weeks ago.
Said: Don't bother me unless you really need me.

[villager]

5. Vonnegut's line about a "slow-moving glacier of hot meat" comes to mind

on edit:

Which he concluded with..."devouring everything in its path..."

[MFM008]

6. i know

i have to turn it on Ancient Aliens or cartoons or something.

[valerief]

7. Fuck it Part Deux. nt

[HereSince1628]

8. Yes, yes indeed.

But, acting on that will get you locked out of threads, groups and topics.

[Gravitycollapse]

9. Fuck it. Fuck threads and locks and rules and little adorable kittens.

Fuck everything.

[madinmaryland]

10. I would suggest you take at least two of these pills before bed. They work for me...

[blkmusclmachine]

11. The Democratic Party is well and truly fucked. The best leaders we can find are rudderless ex-GOP

flunkies posing as "New" Democrats and DLC/Third Way assholes. Fuck that sh!t!!

[Gravitycollapse]

12. Do not bring party politics into this thread. This is a thread about saying fuck it to everything.

Everything.

[Journeyman]

13. No. When I was young, the Mother of one of my friends had passed through the death factories . . .

from Treblinka by way of Theresienstadt. She told me one day her life in sunshine was made possible by her capacity to love.

She and her husband, Viktor (who had also passed through the death factories), never had children of their own but instead adopted little ones who had been brutalized by life. For example, her son, my friend Ron, had been torched as a babe by his drug-addled mother. Another child, a daughter, was abandoned by her birth parents because she had an incurable disorder that took her life at 15.

And through it all, Sarah tried to make sense of the world and of what she had endured by giving freely of her love. So much had been taken, so very much denied, yet she found the capacity to make the world better, even if it was only within the confines of her small family and its duration admittedly ephemeral.

Everywhere I look in the world it is with hope. Having known and loved Sarah, what other option do I have?

[MoonRiver]

17. What a beautiful story! It is truly inspiring.

I have a good family life, but my despair arises from the misery and horror that too many humans inflict on other humans and animals.

[raccoon]

14. Sometimes I get that way when I've heard too much "news."

Remember that news by its very nature (if it bleeds, it leads) tends to be negative.

You're far more likely to read a story about someone who murdered several people
than you are to read about somebody who did something good.

Back off from the news a bit.

[NV Whino]

16. Fuck the news

Bring on the olds.

[RebelOne]

15. All the time. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Been doing that the last 2 weeks, actually.

And do it periodically.
I retreat into movies and books and putting around, until I can take a deep breath again.

[Aerows]

19. I swear, GC

I've read some horrible things the last couple of days. Dead children that didn't have to be. Fuck it, but stand up and say enough is enough. Somebody has to, and it might as well be me. Stop fucking killing each other and the children that had nothing to fucking do with anything.

[Initech]

20. Oh yeah a few years ago things got so bad I finally had to leave the US for a while.

So I went to Belgium. If you drink beer and you've never been to Belgium, get off your ass!

[DebJ]

21. I think the way websites track what you have read and give you more of the same

makes it worse. I clicked on just one or two stories that were horrible tragedies
like someone did murder-suicide of the whole family or the like, and now this
seems to be the ONLY type of story except the top headline appearing in my
newsfeed on the CBS site. Gonna try switching to ABC for awhile. I did peek
at NBC and they had a good story or two up front.

I've stopped doing much except a headline perusal. My life is sorry enough without
all that crap.

[DebJ]

22. We need a Happy/Funny News Forum to be started. n/t