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I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!

I've got family, though no wife and kids yet. I've got friends, and I've got a dog. I wouldn't want to leave all of them. They need me.

Hope that life might improve, I suppose. I'm long since past the belief that anything I do will actually have a global, or even national resonance, however, at 17, I assume hope is an easy enough commodity to have due to the chances open to me.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

I like doing what I do. I'm doing what I want to do, and I like to fool myself into thinking it makes a difference. I'm fortunate that way.

Chocolate! :)


Mmmm... Chocolate :fluffle:

I have seen some interesting things, and had some intense experiences, and I know I'll see more and experience more.

Theatre!

I think apathy is what keeps me going more than anything else. I don't often enjoy my life, but I don't hate it enough to actually do anything about it.

There are also some moments, though they are few and far between, when life is truly beautiful, and every bit of boredom or suffering just makes those moments that much better by comparison.

Oh, and two more things: my love of music and playing guitar, and the hope that the Capitals (as in, the Washington Capitals, my local ice hockey team, for those of you that don't know) will do better next season.

This sounds kind of tautological, I know, but I believe that the purpose of life is to find one's purpose in life. Life is a quest to ultimately find a justification for having lived. It's the search that provides life's most meaningful experiences.

Sometimes I wonder. I'd have to say seeing my friends, the prospect of getting a lot of money in the future and the like. Mostly just the anticipation of summer and going home (though when I get a real job, I won't have a summer break...)

As for me, what keeps me going is the thought that I actually have the chance to make a difference, but then I'm the kind of person who has intended to make a career of that for a while.

I absorb myself into the rather pointless debates on NS (but boy are they entertaining and are a great way to spend time!) and also watch way too many hours of TV thereby making sure I don't have to think about my life too much.

I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!

I have a passion for music, writing, and for God, and that's what makes me excited about every new day.

What do you love to do? What makes you the happiest in terms of a career choice? You should follow your heart. Living a "meanless" existence is just wasting your time. You should try to find what makes you happy in life.

I absorb myself into the rather pointless debates on NS (but boy are they entertaining and are a great way to spend time!) and also watch way too many hours of TV thereby making sure I don't have to think about my life too much.
:( I was about to say, "NSG ;) "

Chocolate! :)


Mmmm... Chocolate :fluffle:
That's the first thing to cross my mind upon reading the thread title. And I knew if you had been in the thread, you would already have said it. :fluffle:

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die.
I hardly get passionate about things anymore these days. When I do, it fades away as quickly as it started.
I kind of put my life on hold a few years ago without ever intending to and there it still is. Me, I'm just watching it from the outside, really.

http://www.motorpasion.com/archivos/images/porsche-997-GT3-front.jpg

The hope that I one day have enough money to do whatever I want.

:( I was about to say, "NSG ;) "

Well I sometimes find myself in the spam forum so I can't limit myself to just General. :)

*looks up at some of the previous posts*

We're quite a pathetic bunch, really...

Spite.:p

what keeps me going at university is the knowledge that if i don't get a degree my parents will have wasted well in excess of £20,0000 over the last 4 years paying for my uni fees. after that i don't know what will keep me going, probably the desire to see new stuff, i'm always looking to the next place or thing to move on to, probably why i've never got good at anything or settled in anywhere.

Spite.

Inertia, mostly.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?
The fact that I have the strength and ability to succeed in it, and when I do, I will have the resources to do what I want to do with my life at my disposal.

Also, the fact that I don't have enough cash anyway to get away with doing the thing I want to do from the start.

Inertia, mostly.That.

Well suicide didn't work, so I figure I'll just waste time and enjoy myself. Seems to be working out pretty damn well. :)

Delicious, nutritious beer.

I sometimes honestly wonder what keeps me going. Hope and faith, I guess. My family and friends also help. But I rather like life and living, and learning more every day - so that's a motivator right there.

Other than that: Zoloft. ;)

Well suicide didn't work, so I figure I'll just waste time and enjoy myself. Seems to be working out pretty damn well. :)

Funny you should mention suicide, because I would say the only reason I am still around is that me killing myself would allow so many people to say "I was right about him."

Funny you should mention suicide, because I would say the only reason I am still around is that me killing myself would allow so many people to say "I was right about him."

So your main motivation is to spite others. Cool. :D

Speed.

i dont hate mylife yet. thats probably also cause im 14! im ignorant and stupid and know nothing about the real world!!! :p

nothing other than wanting to live and being all powerful, I want to know everything

Duracell.

What keeps me going? Hell if I know. I've just been spending the last few months sitting on my duff in front of my computer eating ramen and other stuff and watching stuff I download from the intertubes along with participating in debates here. I don't think about my life all that often.

Other than that: Zoloft. ;)

Same :p

The one thing that makes me truely happy is my german sheppard Angel, who is probably the only living thing I care about. Sadly enough, without her I'd be a miserable wreck.

For the most part I'm just going because there's no other choice, well aside from another which after a stupid thing I did tonight is becoming a little more welcoming.

It's good to be reminded that it is possible to come across something you love to do and makes life worth living. I'm going to start taking Saxaphone lessons next week :D

Inertia

Setting small goals, accomplishing them and feeling really good about myself. Like, "I was able to do this thing, and I did it all on my own without anyone else, and :D" And no, I'm not a three year old. <.<

Doing nothing sucks a little more than doing something.

It would just be selfish of me to deprive the world of this hunk of man-meat. That's what keeps me going. I wouldn't want to be selfish.

Hmm...vanity keeps me going.

I'm young (19) and pretty decent looking if I do say so myself, and according to the SAT's and state standarized tests, I'm quite intelligent. Likewise, my GPA told me in highschool, that in contrast to my intelligence, I also am extremely lazy and don't apply myself. :p

Basically, I've had my fair share of fuck-ups. I'm your typical kid who throws away his potential. My motivation, however, is to ultimately succeed. Prove the parents wrong and whatnot.

Prove the parents wrong and whatnot.

So that's at least two NSers that are motivated mainly by spite...

So that's at least two NSers that are motivated mainly by spite...

Eh...I wouldn't say "mainly." If I do succeed, "proving the parents wrong and whatnot," I'll still be successful, which is more for me than them. Coupled with a penchant for self-love, I'd say my motivation is a bit more complex than spite.

Well, there's the big ones like immortality and eternal youth, and below that knowledge and happiness, and pleasure, and experience, and a thousand other things I want to do or experience along the way. There's no real overarching desire, but I want all of these things and that keeps me going.

i've just had a thought: i need to get a new addiction. it used to be that i was motivated to earn money and carry on so that i could afford to buy another bottle of wine or a packet of fags a day or a bag of weed. now i'm not addicted to anything and i can't be bothered to work. fuck.

it's got to be something that won't fuck me up too quickly though, there's so much i still want to see.

What keeps you going?

Tasty waves and a cool buzz.

i've just had a thought: i need to get a new addiction. it used to be that i was motivated to earn money and carry on so that i could afford to buy another bottle of wine or a packet of fags a day or a bag of weed. now i'm not addicted to anything and i can't be bothered to work. fuck.

it's got to be something that won't fuck me up too quickly though, there's so much i still want to see.

Heroin.

The illusionary expectations of others that I have built up in my head?

I don't know. I think it has more to do with "I don't really have a choice" than anything else. I told a friend during a really stressful period not too long ago that I wanted to give up. He asked, "And what would that entail?" I didn't have an answer, so I have to shamble forward.

Whenever I think that I just can't go on, or that life has become too much, I just think about my life, the people that have influenced it, and how much I want to kill each and every one of them.
And then bulldoze their houses.

"And what would that entail?"

*starts humming the theme song to MASH*


...I guess that's a bit of an in-joke to those who know the lyrics...

*starts humming the theme song to MASH*


...I guess that's a bit of an in-joke to those who know the lyrics...

Well, it does bring on many changes...

..but I can take or leave it as I please...

Heroin.

ideally something that won't utterly dominate my life :p

Well, it does bring on many changes...

..but I can take or leave it as I please...
Yeah... but, really, it's quite painless...
ideally something that won't utterly dominate my life :p

Must... not... quote... Trainspotting....

Oh, hell:

"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

Yeah... but, really, it's quite painless...


Must... not... quote... Trainspotting....

Oh, hell:

"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
but i want my cake and to eat it too :(. i want to choose life and and substance abuse ;)

:( I was about to say, "NSG ;) "

I was going to say that too :fluffle:

Though I could say fluffles ;) :fluffle:

It's not like there's anything going for me in RL anyway....

I don't need motivation to live. I'm just that fucking awesome.

but i want my cake and to eat it too :(. i want to choose life and and substance abuse ;)

You have a friend in weed.

There is a possibility of finding out whether there is something beyond this existence, in some manner of form, that grants meaning. If there is, I guess I've succeeded, and life has been worth it; if not, it doesn't matter. There you have somewhat of a point, though lifeless. So, I might just as well live on.

There, the objective ends. And thus, while following that basic, simple goal, I might just as well do whatever I feel like. I'm having a bit of an issue enjoying myself at the moment, though; I guess I don't have strong enough desires to fulfill as of now. Meh. That part can probably be improved, though. I guess I need to develop the proper sense of hedonism. ;)

Well suicide didn't work, so I figure I'll just waste time and enjoy myself. Seems to be working out pretty damn well. :)This sounds about right.

Oh, and I suppose I have hope, also.

I don't know what keeps me going, but it's running out rather fast.

You have a friend in weed.

a friend indeed!

bit of a case of "been there, done that" but once i've finished uni i'll probably get back into it.

I honestly have no clue what keeps me going. It's not like RL is going great for me or that it's going to get much better, though at least my acne will clear up. But that's it. I have B's and C's once again, my sister is on the softball team and making straight A's once again, it's not like I'm really special anyway.

Maybe it's just NS and writing. :(

What keeps me going? Bawls, shadowrun, star wars, and the hope of becoming a writer, y'know, once I finally get serious about writing.

don't know really

what motivates you to do what you do?

Gratification and fear.

Is there a great passion in your life?

Yes. Multiple passions, even.

Old Crow, Marlboros, and the occasional fornication.

I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!

I am mostly determined to be determined. I feel like crap on toast most of the time.......but, I get up and do what has to be done. Just like it says on the wall in my house "We do what needs to be done".

I figure on my worst days I am an awesome example for my kids, and on my best days......at least I get out of bed.

Also, it would really suck for my husband and my kids if I didn't do the things I do, it would double suck for them if I wasn't around. I guess I feel obligated to stick it out, even though it sucks sometimes.

I honestly have no clue what keeps me going. It's not like RL is going great for me or that it's going to get much better, though at least my acne will clear up. But that's it. I have B's and C's once again, my sister is on the softball team and making straight A's once again, it's not like I'm really special anyway.

Maybe it's just NS and writing. :(

you have to get out of this funk you are in.

You are totally special.

If I hear one more self deprecating remark from you.......it's a smack on the nose with a wet noodle for you. ;)

Good question.

I'm useless in pretty much any practical situation (but I try...). I'm likely to spend the next decade shifting between minimum wage manual labour. To put it in another context...if there were a nuclear war, i'd be the first kicked out of the fallout shelter when the group realised they didn't have enough rations.

I'm tired of...say, opening up a newspaper and seeing bigotry and the like painted everywhere in big bold letters. Really fucking tired of it.

I'm tired of people judging me on my appearance or what little tidbits they have heard gossiped about me.

I'm tired of constant rejection from the opposite sex. Although I should be blaming my own failings, not anyone else in that regard.

I'm tired of "friends" that couldn't care less about me until they want something.

Actually, I think I'm just tired of people.

The only thing I feel passionate about and motivated with anymore is music, and i'm not very good at it.

So...good question. Why do I bother?

Fuck, i'm whingeing again.

I might also add that doubleshots and Starcraft keep me going.

Good question.

I'm useless in pretty much any practical situation (but I try...). I'm likely to spend the next decade shifting between minimum wage manual labour. To put it in another context...if there were a nuclear war, i'd be the first kicked out of the fallout shelter when the group realised they didn't have enough rations.
I'm willing to bet I'd be out before you.

I'm tired of...say, opening up a newspaper and seeing bigotry and the like painted everywhere in big bold letters. Really fucking tired of it.
Yeah...can't help there...

I'm tired of people judging me on my appearance or what little tidbits they have heard gossiped about me.
That gets better, then it gets worse, then it gets better again. For the appearance thing, both me and my brother went through the whole deal-we normalized our look, realized that all of a sudden people we really didn't like where talking to us, and so we re-hoisted our Freak Flag. As it turns out, the cats that won't talk to you because of a look are people you didn't want to talk to. Think of it as a filter.

I'm tired of constant rejection from the opposite sex. Although I should be blaming my own failings, not anyone else in that regard.
Now be honest-are you really taking the field or are you hoping to be called up from the bench?

Other than that, it gets better. Mostly when you're doing something else entirely, that way you don't come off as desperate or self defeating.

At least that's how it's worked for me in the past.

I'm tired of "friends" that couldn't care less about me until they want something.
Suck. Although are you withdrawing when things go south? (do Australians say, "Things go north" instead?) If so, then...

If not, they suck.

Actually, I think I'm just tired of people.
Yeah, that happens.

The only thing I feel passionate about and motivated with anymore is music, and i'm not very good at it.
I actually forgot why I was doing this until I got here...
Musicians are the worst judges of their own abilities. There should be some sort of chart, the worse you think you are the better you probably are except when you reach a point where you're actually horrible and know it.

I'm going to guess that's not you, otherwise you wouldn't enjoy it.

So...good question. Why do I bother?

Fuck, i'm whingeing again.
Because what else are you going to do?

Retirement. Like the carrot before the donkey, the thought of retirement kept me going. I'm retired now. It's good.

Alcohol and self mutilation.

No bullshit.

and the hope that the world will come to an end within my lifetime.

Jesus Christ, and there I thought I was the only one.

We need to get some sort of NSG help network happening. I find it's heaps easier to see what other people are doing wrong and correcting them than repairing one's own life.

Maybe we should all help each other with our problems and stuff?

Womanizing. *nods*

I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!
I have Cricket and little else, and that hasn't been going too well for me.
*Might just pack it all in*

Short selling.

Profiting from the stupidity of the herd. Can there by any finer feeling?

I think not.

I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!

tis something i think about too often.

to be honest, i don't have a reason myself. the thing that keeps me going (ie. not giving up & dying) is that my death would most likely hurt my parents and my girlfriend, and i don't want to do that.

This sounds kind of tautological, I know, but I believe that the purpose of life is to find one's purpose in life. Life is a quest to ultimately find a justification for having lived. It's the search that provides life's most meaningful experiences.

What an excellent thought :)

For me, I suppose my friends (even if sometimes I cannot believe that they are), my desire to achieve something and be pleased with myself, like myself in some way, compose a piece of music that I am satisfied with, feel loved. I do sometimes have the thought that there is no point me being alive i.e. suicidal, but then I realise how much of a waste it would be, there's so many things I want to do in my life, how much I know my family/friends would be hurt even if I normally deny they would feel that way, how could I cause them those feelings I felt when one of my best friends died?

Jesus Christ, and there I thought I was the only one.

We need to get some sort of NSG help network happening. I find it's heaps easier to see what other people are doing wrong and correcting them than repairing one's own life.

Maybe we should all help each other with our problems and stuff?
Where have you been? We're already doing that!!!

Where have you been? We're already doing that!!!
I seem to have managed to exclude myself from the gang of the excluded...:p

The twin pursuits of love and knowledge. And just generally happiness. All good.

I seem to have managed to exclude myself from the gang of the excluded...:p
Aww... :fluffle: Maybe it's just that you don't have problems as severe as some others? :p [Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, ne?]

Sex, art, books, movies, nature, green issues, athiesm & laughing at religion, philosophy, cosmology, astronomy, politics, love, pets, people, money, fun, mnemonics, longevity projects etc etc etc.....
If you're bored, it's because you're boring.:D

debating or just having fun with friends. drawing or cooking stuff and have people say it looks/tastes good. getting a little bit drunk at a bar and then trying to change the world. music is very important too. but the most important thing that keeps me going must be partying. i get depressed (not really depressed but i lack a better word) when i don't have a party to go to within the next few days. i also feel generaly better when i went out the night before (exept when i have a hangover ;)), even though i only slept 2 hours on the ground. right now i can't wait for monday, first i'm going to see explosions in the sky and after that there is a party organised by my school in one of my favorite clubs, and a lot of my friends are going to be there, it's going to be the most perfect monday ever.

I'm willing to bet I'd be out before you.

I recall a previous thread along these lines where you mentioned that your sole means of survival would be starting a theater troupe between groups of fellow remnants of the apocalypse...I mean, i'd totally want to be part of that. Can we at least call it equal?

Yeah...can't help there...

Oddly enough, I suppose that's the reason I stick around this forum. Nowhere else have I found like-minded individuals. No matter what other aspects of society or economy we disagree on, most of us here are strongly opposed to bigotry of any sort.

That gets better, then it gets worse, then it gets better again. For the appearance thing, both me and my brother went through the whole deal-we normalized our look, realized that all of a sudden people we really didn't like where talking to us, and so we re-hoisted our Freak Flag. As it turns out, the cats that won't talk to you because of a look are people you didn't want to talk to. Think of it as a filter.

True enough, I suppose.


Now be honest-are you really taking the field or are you hoping to be called up from the bench?

I've tried and tried and tried and met with only failure. I'm convinced that anything with a less than 5% success rate isn't worth bothering with. I don't know what it is about me, but whatever it is, it must be pretty bad.

Other than that, it gets better. Mostly when you're doing something else entirely, that way you don't come off as desperate or self defeating.

At least that's how it's worked for me in the past.

I suppose that's half my problem. The desperate thing. Except...no, I don't think so, because nobody bar my closest friends think that, and that's only through admission on my part anyway.

Suck. Although are you withdrawing when things go south? (do Australians say, "Things go north" instead?) If so, then...

If not, they suck.

I'm not familiar with that expression. How do you mean?

I actually forgot why I was doing this until I got here...
Musicians are the worst judges of their own abilities. There should be some sort of chart, the worse you think you are the better you probably are except when you reach a point where you're actually horrible and know it.

I'm going to guess that's not you, otherwise you wouldn't enjoy it.

I enjoy music, but i'm really not skilled at making it.

But, I should be positive, actually. Just today I realised that within the past couple of weeks, I have made large strides in my guitar playing ability and i'm feeling like I really want to focus on it again for the first time in three years or so.

I'm simply frustrated with it at the moment, because everyone I try to work with wants to do different things, none of which particularly interest me. Out of frustration, I tried taking on an entire project by myself and realised that i'm simply not skilled enough to do it.

I just need to work on it more. I can see myself in a few years being up to the task, I guess. I don't know.

Because what else are you going to do?

Get drunk, I guess. Polish grass vodka for the win.

But anyway, you're a cool guy CToaN. Thanks for the encouragement.

Life itself. So many experiences and the knowlegde new ones will crop up. The fact that I'm just started my adult life and it stretches out in front of me full of totally new things. My friends and family who give support when I need it. Life may not be perfect but it's worth it.

What keeps me going? Bawls, shadowrun, star wars, and the hope of becoming a writer, y'know, once I finally get serious about writing.
I love Bawls. Prehaps if you drank more, you wouldn't be able to put the pen down. *nods*
Womanizing. *nods*

Tis a great sport!

My graffiti. I recently got into it, and practice my tag a ton everyday (on paper, not wasting marker and paint on walls). It's all I really have left. I'm fed up/ annoyed by school and don't care about it anymore, my best friend and cousin no longer talks to me, so I lost her, and I liked this girl Towi but my one friend Taylor, who I guess liked me, went and told her. So, if it weren't for me starting graffiti, I would probably have thought about sucide a bit.

Jesus Christ, and there I thought I was the only one.

We need to get some sort of NSG help network happening. I find it's heaps easier to see what other people are doing wrong and correcting them than repairing one's own life.

Maybe we should all help each other with our problems and stuff?It would only work if the people asking for help are willing to implement the advice they're given.

It would only work if the people asking for help are willing to implement the advice they're given.Ahahahahahahaaa. *wipes tears from eye*

I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!

What keeps me going is the desire to get laid.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.



Simple answer, my faith. Allah swt gives my guidance,strength and purpose. I have hope in the future and know that through Islam I will never be guided wrong. To me there is nothing greater than that.

What keeps me going is the desire to get laid.

aren't you like 13?

i dont hate mylife yet. thats probably also cause im 14! im ignorant and stupid and know nothing about the real world!!! :p

Totally miss that, hang on to it as long as you can!

I was in the shower this morning with only two minutes before I had to go to work and wondered what the point of living was. Not the meaning, but the point of it since I'm going to be at a meaningless desk job the rest of my life.

My athletic career died young and I'm slightly above average academically, a moron compared to most people around here.

Anyway I come to the point of the thread: what motivates you to do what you do?

Is there a great passion in your life? Or are you like me, just droning it up until I die. Maybe hearing some of you might light a fire under my ass so to speak.

and go!
what keeps me going?

Several things.

Curiosity: "what does tomorrow hold for me."
Competiveness: "I lived! I won this day!"
Stubbornness: "yeah, like hell I'll quit now."
Hope: "Maybe I'll meet the girl of my dreams tomorrow..."
Fear: "I could kill myself... but I have this thing about pain..."
lazyness: "it's easier to keep going than to try to stop."


and other things...

aren't you like 13?

Yeah. I know that's a little weird at my age, but I always answer that question with that, as a joke. I want to get laid, but not actually that badly.

PS: Use the double quote, man.

Yeah. I know that's a little weird at my age, but I always answer that question with that, as a joke. I want to get laid, but not actually that badly.

Sex is over rated.

Sex is over rated.

Bullshit.

Bullshit.

How would you know?

It would only work if the people asking for help are willing to implement the advice they're given.
Well, it's either that or mass suicide, apparently. ;)

How would you know?

I don't. But if as many people do it and are as pleasured as they are in porn, it must be good.

I don't. But if as many people do it and are as pleasured as they are in porn, it must be good.

Because acting in a porno is a no-no?

Well, it's either that or mass suicide, apparently. ;)Ooh let's share tips on that!
(Yes, I'm kidding.)

Spite.

Because acting in a porno is a no-no?

I don't doubt that, but I'm hoping it'll be a good thing.

I think apathy is what keeps me going more than anything else. I don't often enjoy my life, but I don't hate it enough to actually do anything about it.

There are also some moments, though they are few and far between, when life is truly beautiful, and every bit of boredom or suffering just makes those moments that much better by comparison.

Yeah, I know that feeling.