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Help me, I feel cursed?

You know how some people go through rough times and think, "there is no God, for he would not let this happen to me"? Well my impression is the exact opposite. There is NO WAY that there isn't some sort of supernatural entity trying to make my life incredibly difficult, because the circumstances are such that it's as if I'm cursed.

There are a lot small things, but they all add up. I feel like I can't even accurately describe my problem because people will misunderstand, or at least not fully grasp how I feel.

Basically, the part that makes me think I must be cursed is the unbelievably unlikely phenomenon I observe every single day. I'm a thinker; I philosophize and think a lot, so needed silence and concentration are more valuable than gold to me. You know when your train of thought is so clear and you're really concentrated on the thought, and you get "comfortable" in your mind? And how the very littlest distraction completely, so to speak, derails that train of thought and you can't fully concentrate anymore? Well in my case, someone makes a loud noise or yells when and ONLY when I get into that situation, *without* exception. It's almost as if my thinking process is synchronized with whenever my family is in the mood for being loud for no f*cking reason. Because of this, I've reached Pavlovian conditioning in which my mind, if there are people in the vicinity, is "hesitant" to think, because it expects to have its thought completely obliterated without warning which is so incredibly frustrating, especially when it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME (except when I know for sure that nobody is around, but even then, sometimes it's something else like a bug or an itch).

Of course, this is added to my "actual" problems, most of which are also incredibly Kafkaesque. I cannot explain my biggest issue within a novel, let alone a sentence, but essentially it involves having a friend whom I was once incredibly close to flipping over and practically becoming an entirely different person I don't recognize almost overnight (including denying so many things she has said, such as saying that I'm her best friend, and that I mattered so much to her that she didn't really need anybody else, not including one other person close to her), which hit me incredibly hard to the point where I feel I cannot possibly recover from. It hit me emotionally, but mostly psychologically because the way it occurred just doesn't happen. The most logical explanations I have come up with are the most far-fetched. I've thought that maybe I had done something that upset her, and I couldn't come up with anything. Incredibly odd explanations I came up with include her being replaced by a doppelganger, there being a glitch in the Matrix, and, coupled with the other problems that kept stacking up during the year, I am cursed. I'm very skeptical and analytical about everything, so it's amazing that those are the only satisfying explanations I could come up with.

This year, I have also seen other difficulties. It's as if life has thrown me all of its screwballs at once, because not a single year before (my friend changing was the very first "problem" I had, and that happened a couple months after my 19th birthday. My 20th passed just over a month ago) have I even come close to having these many unrelated problems and being this incredibly emotionally and psychologically tormented. I also had the misfortune to, by pure chance, eventually fall into Wikipedia articles about religion and philosophy, which is what has thrown me into an existential crisis I am still struggling with right now. I had not ever considered existential issues before that.

I am incredibly hopeless and in despair at this point. More so perhaps than a suicidal person (I have never been suicidal) because the amount of philosophy I have done (away from any possible family members who can distract my thought process) completely proves that suicide could only make things far worse for me than they already are. So not even suicide is a comforting resort (I've always spoken against it anyway). I wish (amongst other things, of course) I had a faith of some kind. A god to seek aid from; but alas, my incredibly extensive research and education on philosophy and religion only makes me increasingly more agnostic.

I have a lot of problems that are completely and entirely out of my control (I've only skimmed the surface in this question), most of the choices I have to make are catch-22's, and, since I'm not a malaria-infected child living in Sudan, nor am I a hobo in the glacial streets, nor have I been molested as a child, I have no right to complain about anything, because apparently my problems aren't real.

I'm beyond sick and tired, universe! I give up! I just want the answer already!

What do I do?!

Update:

Now to watch my question not get answered.

Update 2:

@Terry: the fact that they don't make sense is my problem. And when I said "my problems aren't real", I was being sarcastic; this is due to the fact that some people have told me that my problems are asinine and unimportant because they don't include me starving in the streets or something, so it's as if I'm not supposed to be complaining.

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  • Terry
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    You wrote a great length about things that don't make sense. Or are hard to understand. It seems it all comes down to a problem with your girlfriend. You say after all that , that you don't really have a problem as they are not real? How do we answer that?

  • 8 years ago

    Your sense of humor can save you from your problems, maybe by itself. Laughing at your problems makes them lose their grip over you.

    I don't see anything wrong in your life situation, it all seems like normal stuff which is absolutely unavoidable. It is like you are complaining about death: death is unavoidable, what is the point of complaining?

    Friends can easily turn to enemies, it's happened to me several times. And the more you give importance to distracting noises, the more they seem to be evil, against you. To me, distracting noises are my friends, because they aren't distracting, they make me more alert, like an electric shock. Not that they disturb me, they make me more relaxed.

    The real problem is that you feel there is a problem. The problem is inside you, it isn't outside you. So focus on the source of the problem. You will never control reality; so how to be happy regardless?

    I feel uncomfortable leaving without giving you some hints. As long as you have any preferences about your situation you will be miserable, because life is beyond your control, and everything is transitory. You need to dissolve all preferences and not depend on external sources for happiness.

    Another thing is, whatever you do over and over becomes boring. Anything good will desensitize you: entertainment, food, sex. It's all desensitizing. You need to go through withdrawal from everything you like. Instead of getting a little high on outside things, then going through withdrawal, then getting high again, you can be constantly high on life, from having already gone through withdrawal from all those things.

    The third tip is that anytime you start fighting with yourself you will create a division. When you are doing one thing you will want to do the other and when you are doing the other you will want to do the one. You will go back and forth forever until you remain undecided. This is true about any choice that really matters.

    You are intelligent, and may be desperate enough to figure out the whole problem. I could write more, but my answers seem to be boring and useless to people. So I will suggest that you google Osho, especially googling Osho [my problem], for example "Osho loneliness." Osho is a guru who will tell you what you need to know. There are older gurus, but their words are not for the modern man, they will seem alien and confusing to you, and may mislead you. Osho is the only famous modern guru worth listening to.

    Osho is also on youtube, but there's only short videos.

    If you want to know more from me, email me.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Satan is at the root of all hurt & deception pain/lies..

    but God can help you, I know it sounds so short and simple after your story, but its true.

    The creator loves you, he made the universe and you and I... He loves you and can help you

    jer. 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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