A Christian perspective:
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
“At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendors we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.”
CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory
And while I’ve suffered, at times, and innocently, it has NEVER made me wish I’d never been born! You speak for yourself, alexander_busek, although I doubt you speak honestly. I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who wished he had never been born - which YOU wish on every human who has ever lived!
Why?
I would like to say I can’t imagine why but there is one of the promises the Father has made that quickly came to mind that if someone simply did not believe it that might lead them to such bitterness: the promise to wipe away all tears.
If someone believes there is no way to do that, or to even go farther in the extreme as to believe that there will still be tears of sorrow and pain in the new heaven and earth, it must be a terrible thing.
I’m NOT saying that’s the issue here, but it is what I was reminded of.
Still, instead it is written: “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” — Romans 8:18
I just noticed that other day on another venue a fellow responded to me in a somewhat similar bitterness of soul, only instead of expressing the view that the Father was wrong to have created at all this one went further to accuse the Lord.
There is nothing new under the sun, that such people have probably been found down through the ages; yet, what is going on in these lives that they reach such a point?