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by gtrfreewifi 2680 days ago
Things like this are easy to theorize, but actually taking action when you have no decent paying job (or job at all), no friends, no lovelife, your family is just a bunch of psychos, and you are overall looking very unattractive, is hard. You can maybe start somewhere, but even after losing weight successfully, for example, your life still sucks. Why bother...
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Why bother? Because even if your life still sucks it sucks _less_. The unattainability of a perfect life doesn't stop you from making incremental improvements. There's no real reason to do anything, of course. But you're here, living. Yesterday you decided to go to sleep and wake up again today, rather than ending it all. If today was worth living for you, tomorrow probably is too. Could tomorrow be better than today, even a little bit, if you pursued some course of action today? If so, why wouldn't you pursue that course of action? How much would your life improve over the next decade if you spent time incrementally improving it most days?

Fixing all of the problems in your life is probably not possible, but incremental improvements are entirely attainable, and they build up over time. Once you have momentum you can start shifting gears. You lost weight? Well great, now some of those superficial humans might be willing to befriend you...