| Seeing as your posting here I'll assume you are of a logical bent. One of the only certainties in life is that you will ultimately die. So why hasten it? You may as well just continue existing, you'll definitely die eventually. Lets consider our lives like a video game, the score you get at the end is the sum total of all the happiness and joy you've experienced in your life. Even if nothing good happens in all the decades of the rest of your natural life, that time would still not affect your score, neither a net loss or a net gain. Also, this is an incredibly unlikely scenario. Moments of joy an happiness do have a tendency to happen to humans over time, so if you try to live as long as possible your almost certain to increase your score. I know at times it may seem like you will never again experience joy, but you can refute this by finding examples of times when you felt like you would never again experience joy, and then subsequently did experience some joy.
Even in your short post there is one example..
"I went through a very long period of my life where I was horrendously depressed"
followed by..
"I finally got over it last year when I started doing small kind gestures for the people I care about." Also in the meantime, you could occupy yourself by achieving and adhering to a strict daily regimen: have a normal sleeping pattern, get 20 minutes of vigorous exercise each day, eat healthily. It would be a probabilistic miracle for you to not have some amazing moments ahead of you. |