The Argument that We Are Already Living in Hell

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven," is how John Milton sized it up. If you've lost your vision of paradise it probably because we have a lot of adversity thrust upon us on a daily basis. How we choose to handle it determines how we view our lives. Here are some points to make an argument that our little blue planet is really hell in disguise.

First, there is isn't a single living thing on this planet that gets out alive. There is a never ending cycle of life and death which is often uncaringly random and unfair in its untimely distribution of death.

A person you seldom talk to at work will invariably pick the day in which they have the worst breath and proceed to tell you their life's story as if you're their long lost friend. Their confidence and willingness to prolong this toxic charade only leads you to one conclusion, you're in hell.

When you drop something under your car, it will roll to within a half of an inch of possibly being out of your reach and prolonging the drama of what should be an otherwise mundane ordinary occurrence.

We lose items we need that will never be found and frequently find items that we have no use for. But the idea of losing an item will stick in your head and haunt you the rest of your waking days.

We always seem to have, need and want more of just about everything. We need more time, more money, more stuff as if we are being baited forward like a donkey trying to catch up to a hanging carrot. Just when we seem to be content, something sparks our interest and leads us into temptation. We live in an overbearing media age, meant to distract, confuse and make us feel inferior and want more.

As part of the media mess, there is bad news every day. It's what keeps us watching and talking. It's what consumes our psyche playing on our emotions and yet we enable it on a daily basis by choosing to watch more bad news, like a slow motion train wreck. We're all part of a freak show in which we are invariably actors, helping to magnify tragedies to the point of corrupting peoples minds into thinking there may not be any real purpose in living anyways.

When you've lost your sense of purpose in life, then you're probably in hell.