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Yo, people, it's my birthday again! Your boy Nevies was born today the 12th of June 😃!

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Usually on my birthdays I post some birthday jokes on here as you can see here and here, but today I'm feeling a little philosophical and I want to share my thoughts.

I think too much sometimes and I've gone through an intellectual journey when it comes to deciding whether life is worth living or not. What drove this journey was me asking myself whether birthdays are worth celebrating. I was asking myself that why celebrate coming into the world when the world has so much evil, wickedness, pain and suffering in it?

Then I thought, why not celebrate? The world also has a lot of good, kindness, pleasure and enjoyment in it too. So what does that mean? That there is a chance for a lot of enjoyment and a chance for a lot of suffering, if one doesn't come to the world at all one wouldn't suffer anything but then one wouldn't enjoy anything either. Is the chance of a lot of enjoyment worth it even though there's a chance of a lot of suffering?

The answer is that it depends, some people's chances of suffering are higher than their chances of enjoyment and vice versa. It all depends on the circumstances of your birth. Are you born in a good country? At a good time? Are you born with major bodily defects? Are you born with good or bad features? Are you born with important talents/abilities? Are you born to rich/influential parents? Are you born to wise or kind parents?

All these determine your chances of enjoying or suffering in the world. I decided to think about only myself, all those factors above that determines one's enjoyment I scored myself average, not bad not good, I'll say I have a 50/50 chance of enjoying or suffering in this world and so far I've been getting a lot from both sides, I've had a lot of pleasure and a lot of pain, I can even say I've had more pleasure than pain so far.

So I can say my life is quite worth celebrating/living because if it's quite a 50/50, I stand the chance of suffering but that's the only way I can also get to enjoy the world and this is better than not being born at all.

But then why should I think of myself alone? How about the other people in the world who I come across who go through a lot of suffering? Why do I not think of them too? I go through some vicarious pain seeing and thinking about these people and the only way to relieve this pain is to stop thinking about them. I can also help but how many can I help? Won't they still be a lot out there who I'll still feel some vicarious suffering from?

There also a lot of people enjoying and I feel some vicarious pleasure from seeing them and thinking about them but does this really balance things out? Especially as the enjoyers are not the majority? It surely doesn't balance things out so how can my life be worth celebrating when I'm thinking of all my fellow humans suffering?

I then thought, it is my life I'm celebrating not theirs and it should be based on whether my life is worth living not whether the life of everyone else is, maybe I can decide not to celebrate theirs if I think theirs isn't worth living. I resolved to celebrate my own life and not bother much about others but at the same time be kind and caring and do what I can to help when I can. Because celebration is gratitude and even if my life is just one good life a good thing isn't unworthy of gratitude just because it is small.

Next I started thinking, my life has only been kind of good so far, how am I sure it will remain good? How am I sure some tragedy won't befall me and make all the pleasure I've had insignificant? Like what if I get thrown into a prison or lose some limbs or get a critical chronic ailment or something? Shouldn't I wait till the end of my life before I call it a good life or a pain-filled one?

But in the same vein, something beautiful like millions or billions of dollars or something else can happen and make my life utopia, so...

For these final thoughts I resolved to live in the moment and celebrate my life for the average good things I get lucky to enjoy as the days roll on and not worry about anything messing my life up in future because that might never happen. I gotta enjoy and celebrate what I have and even though something messed up happens in future it doesn't mean I should start now to mourn for something that hasn't happened and may never happen. Be happy, Nev, and enjoy!

Happy Birthday to you, playa!!

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