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Do you feel sad for people born today? (sh.itjust.works)

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I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

"Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the world is overrun with dragons right now. It sucks.

But I suppose it's about one's perspective as to the point of life: Is the ideal life one of ease and leisure or of purpose?

We can choose to spite the dragons by voluntarily going extinct, or we can pass down the very best of ourselves and be good examples to raise dragon slayers to take up the mantle, whilst learning from our missteps.

I choose a perspective of hope and responsibility to humanity.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to overcome a difficult one. --Bruce Lee

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for. --Samwise Gamgee

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