# Your dark thought for the day **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269 "2011-03-19T18:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/41 "2011-04-03T02:25:04Z")
Actually I’ve been feeling surprisingly good lately. About the only major worry is my desperate need for a job. This old post should more than cover it though: [**Age, sickness and death: a morbid descent into angst**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=500315) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/42 "2011-04-03T03:10:11Z")
Life is not as a sweet as we try to convince children it is. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/43 "2011-04-03T15:51:44Z")
I have been in love, but I’ve never been loved. And it’s starting to become a pattern. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/44 "2011-04-03T19:45:54Z")
I will never have anything, and it’s all my fault. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/45 "2011-04-03T20:05:18Z")
You only get so many chances at love, and, if you screw those up, you don’t get any more. ☹ > [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#): > > How well you socialize determines your future far more than how smart you are. I totally believe this. ---
**Author:** ![DjDolphP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@DjDolphP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DjDolphP)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/46 "2011-04-03T20:39:42Z")
> [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#): > > To survive in society, one must match society’s level of cruelty. To succeed, one has to exceed that level of cruelty. > > How well you socialize determines your future far more than how smart you are. > I’m actually coming to believe the last one. Been a rough year for me so far, what can I say. Love these. ---
**Author:** ![wonder\_lust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wonder\_lust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder_lust)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/47 "2011-04-03T21:29:44Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#): > > I don’t know what the point of me is if I never get to be somebody’s mother. this for me too. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/48 "2011-04-03T23:54:03Z")
I don’t want a funeral after I die, because I’m afraid less than a dozen people will show up. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/49 "2011-04-04T00:54:44Z")
How the fuck am I ever gonna get a career and make enough money to support myself and a family… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/50 "2011-04-04T14:03:23Z")
My past fucked up my future, and I’m afraid it’s a pattern that will keep repeating. As Aristotle said, Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/51 "2011-04-04T14:19:13Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > As someone who’s made kids, I recommend looking up a different tree to find meaning. kids suck. I can’t say that kids suck, but I don’t think I want any. I hope I still feel that way when my wife and I are too old to change our minds. My dark thought? Half the people in the world are below average - and for what it’s worth, “average” ain’t all that impressive. It does not give me hope when I think of the prospects of solving humanity’s big probems. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/52 "2011-04-04T15:44:17Z")
Someday everything we as a species have accomplished will be reduced to nothing, with no one to care or even notice. Civilizations come and go, and time erodes all. Even the universe will wind down to a vast cold, dark empty void, punctuated increasingly rarely with the quiet bursts of decaying protons. Finally, even that will stop. oh, and I could have had a V8… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/53 "2011-04-04T16:34:43Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > I can’t say that kids suck, but I don’t think I want any. I hope I still feel that way when my wife and I are too old to change our minds. > > My dark thought? Half the people in the world are below average - and for what it’s worth, “average” ain’t all that impressive. It does not give me hope when I think of the prospects of solving humanity’s big probems. One in 110 children is born with autism, and the percentage is rising, 10-17% every year. Many of them have some level of retardation. With the continuing outcry of “no money! no money”, the question of who or what is going to take care of them as they age is up in the air. ---
**Author:** ![randomface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@randomface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomface)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/54 "2011-04-04T17:15:19Z")
In all likelihood, I will be functionally disabled in about 20 years, and won’t be able to work, drive, or do much at all except take naps all day. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/55 "2011-04-04T20:30:55Z")
The American public is far more passionate about sports and popular TV shows than schools. On a related and unsurprising note, in America, at least, the stupid people are winning, and there’s nothing that can be done about it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/56 "2011-04-06T02:33:29Z")
There are two signs that you are doing the wrong thing with your life. One is having more stress than you can handle. The thing is, the other is having _no_ more stress than you can handle. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/57 "2011-04-06T03:48:49Z")
> [@Scotty Mo](#): > > How the fuck am I ever gonna get a career and make enough money to support myself and a family… Sux worse after you have the family, brother-B… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/58 "2011-04-06T16:11:25Z")
Contrary to popular belief, 90% of everything is not showing up. It’s _sucking_ up. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/59 "2011-04-06T16:15:25Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Contrary to popular belief, 90% of everything is not showing up. It’s _sucking_ up. Foolish Thunderian. One cannot _suck_ up unless one _shows_ up. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269/60 "2011-04-06T16:29:19Z")
See, the other _10%_ is showing up, but that ain’t nohow enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dark-thought-for-the-day/575269.md?page=4)