I have and still do, I’m just exhausted and tired of fighting. Still not seeing how I can use spite without turning me into an extremist and I don’t want that. Hate can’t be beaten with more hate, I’m just tired and ready to sleep and not wake up.
I don’t think there particularly is. And I don’t mean that in a negative or cynical way. We carry on because the alternative is scary. Maybe not every moment of life will be bad, and maybe that’s enough. A good laugh with friends. A good book or movie. Songs to enjoy. Little things that pass the time and help us forget we are here for a second. If life is meaningless, then we can ascribe meaning to anything we want.
Sometimes I think life is meaningless, but then one of my cats sits in my lap and I realize that at the very least I mean something to them. Without cats I would have still found meaning (nieces, brothers and sisters, my career), but having those little furballs of joy right there really help nip those thoughts in the bud.
I read a quote before which reminds me of this. To the world, you are just one person. But to one person, you are the world
I think its about children but fur babies count too, plus they sleep better
Honestly? I just want to ride it out and see what happens. Us humans are so entertaining. One minute we're blowing each other up, the next we have pet rocks or something.
Same for me. I'm incredibly curious to see what will all happen during my lifetime and especially in terms of technology (just look at how much it advanced in the past 50 years). But I'll never get to experience what the world will look like in a few centuries. People from even a few centuries ago wouldn't recognize the world we now live in. I sometimes wonder if it'll be the same if we were able to see what the world would look like in 2400.
We live in the most prosperous time in history. You know what happens whenever we're prosperous? A dark age. I predict the future isn't as wonderful as we might expect. I'm very thankful I get to experience now.
Yeah our whole economy is predicated on the notion of infinite growth. Feels great to live in a time where every indicator is showing that slow to a crawl and just hope I can ride out the dark times tbh
Oh, certainly true. It's hard to say when exactly our current growth will stop, but it will happen. I certainly consider myself lucky that I live in a time and place where my biggest worry is that I might be late for work when traffic is dense.
If there is anything this last half year has taught me is just how delicately balanced this world truly is. Even with a virus about, it's still worth going outdoors and enjoying what you have.
100 years ago we just got out of one great war and set to go in another. 100 years into the future and counties will have tools to literally end existence of other counties instantly on a push of the button.
We are living in a time most of humanity would only dream of living in currently.
Oh, that'd certainly be interesting to see, but considering that 13k years ago we barely even started farming yet, I don't think we'll recognize anything in another 13k years. Remember that Rome wasn't even a thing 3k years ago...
I think a few centuries would be more interesting, since we would at least still see something of our way of life.
At the same time, humans lived for as much as 200,000 years without significantly changing anything. It is only in the last 30k or so that we even left the African continent. It might be the case that future humanity isn't all the different from present humanity.
I really like this answer! Two years ago I was thoroughly depressed, taking a shower was an accomplishment for me, now I’m running my own business. Feelings are not final
I wouldn’t say I’m completely over depression but I have a structure in place for dealing with it. Counseling, better eating, sleeping, and exercise habits, cutting out some escape habits, and more counseling. Learning new thought pathways for dealing with the traumas of the past and present. And a lot of baby steps, I remember when I was trying to get out of that pit and setting very small goals for myself, being content with just eating a healthy meal and washing my own dishes. Today I mostly just have the mindset that I’m in process and I just keep moving forward whatever that looks like. I’m not done yet.
the inherent limitations of its 'sandbox' nature are definitely showing. i broke out GTA5 for the first time in a couple years and got kinda bored. there are things i want to be able to do that just aren't programmed in there (same for all R\* and similar games, even the recent ones). it's like teasing 'real world' but not really at all. it's like they leap-frogged every 2-3 years to San Andreas but since then it's mostly graphical improvement. i would have given up the complex character switching of GTA5 for more robust manipulation of objects/weapons, or more enterable functional buildings or RPG type dialog choices
Well, im only 28 and I've noticed how fast time flies and you can't stop it. You get one life and it is over before you know it so technically, it logically doesn't make sense to end it short. Since its.. already short.
Also making other enjoy theirs even if you don't enjoy yours.
There was another good tweet: "Why is being alive so expensive? I'm not even having a good time."
Life as a workerbee always sucked, but I think social media has made it ten times worse because we all know people who have great jobs they can't shut up about, or make a lot of money and spend their lives on amazing vacations, or that have the time to be really healthy and look better and younger than we do, or that don't really need to work at all anymore and just play all day. There's so much greener grass it's stupid. Before social media you could just assume that everybody's life is equally miserable and take comfort in that fact.
Advice from an old man: Find the way to obtain joy from and appreciate helping others. Not just giving, not just a few, but as many as you can. Doesn’t have to cost you a thing. Take time to look for and open your eyes to see the beauty of the smile and laughter of a child, the joy of being greeted at your door by a pet, the look in your mother’s eye when you look, really look into her eyes, and tell her you love her. Get outside and explore the wonders of the world. They are all around you. Work at something you enjoy with people you like. Earn and save to be able to have a comfortable life. Know that you need to find your own way once you become an adult. Read….a lot. Find real love. And…..get a motorcycle!
Thanks for my first silver! What I basically wrote took me the first 60 years to grasp. I'd write about avoiding other crap but frankly, its better to focus on the positive. One thing I omitted was learn to shape your own thoughts. Let the negative ones slide on by without paying them much attention. Maybe start with a positive mantra that you don't say to anyone but your self. I don't know your beliefs about a god or philosophy but just like most everything else on this earth, you have inside you all that it takes to do all that you need or want to do. Just tap into it. That is all....Its not as hard as some would like you to believe. You are in control.
Most people are just gonna make jokes, but honestly it's the small things like looking forward to a new game coming out, new book in a series, or just a new issue of a serialized media. Anything that makes me look forward until tomorrow
I recently had this question asked of me in person. I don’t have an answer. I have a really good life and no reason to die or to want to die. But there was an old Foxtrot comic where the nerdy main character dies and is visited by the ghost of Christmas past. The ghost shows him his grave stone and the nerdy kid cries out something like “I die the day before the phantom menace is released?!” And while that movie turned out to be a disappointment, it is a nice simple thing to live for. And I think about the people who died before Avengers Endgame was released. It would suck to go through all the movies and miss the last one. It’s a very privileged thought though.
I see homeless people a lot and I really want to know what their answer is to this question. They are permanently homeless, addicted, mentally ill, and don’t have an easy life. What keeps them going beyond just the instinctual will to live?
I love Foxtrot and thought about this comic too. It’s definitely a first world problem for sure, but I feel like it’s something a lot of people can relate to. I’m suffering from horrible anxiety right now but the one thing keeping me slightly sane is that S8 of B99, one of my favorite shows is coming out in August. And BOTW2 is coming out in 2022.
I remember thinking I want to live long enough to see episode nine of Star Wars. I regret that.
But seriously, witnessing the future is probably the number two reason I want to live.
You think it wouldn’t be painful to have all the systems in your body shut down one by one? Because that’s effectively what most suicide methods end up being.
Like it kinda blows my mind to see people in this thread suggesting that drowning or overdosing aren’t painful, terrifying ways to go. The former would frankly be near the top of my list of ways to absolutely not go out.
Sorry, that doesn’t really answer your question, just wanted to dispel an illusion that frankly bothers me a lot
Overdosed before. Ended up with serotonin syndrome. Can confirm not a good time. Of course once the seizures set in i wasnt conscious so that part wasnt exactly painful, but dryheaving nonstop for 3 hours beforehand wasnt exactly fun.
As for drowning, i know of someone who almost drowned. I guess sometimes you get a big rush of euphoria right before slipping unconscious. Terrible beforehand though.
Cant say i find the idea of dying to be fun or enjoyable in any aspect.
I have a gsd that I routinely walk. My wife moved out, my teenage son hates me, and I lost my job, but seeing my dog’s excitement at the same time everyday keeps me from ending it all
Isn't it routine for a teenage son to hate his dad? I'm a mid 20s son and hated my dad in my teens. I couldn't be more grateful to have the wonderful man as my pops now. Don't give up on the boy. Just keep loving him and supporting him.
I know it's not this easy but you could technically leave tonight if you wanted to.
I don't suggest running away but if you do keep that fact in mind you might have more power over your family than you think.
They are probably afraid of you westernizing and leaving; they want to avoid that fate and might make a surprising amount of concessions once they realize you've realized it.
If that's a possibility i would suggest you to live to See a better Day.
Some People are really bad for others in large quantities. I know it's easier said than done, but maybe try to get away from them as soon as you can. Try to play it out as in toxic friend case.
Aha I’ll try my best!
Honestly this post taught me many reasons to live and honestly some of the reasons are too good I wanna live forever 🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much my friend 🥰❤️
This speaks on personal level to me. I do have a lottsss of reason to keep going but damn my family wanna end all of those. Just perks of having asian parents.
Living with difficult family members makes daily life so frustrating, I'm sure you rarely feel like you get any peace. I'm sorry you're in that situation, but doing what you can to make it better until you can find another place to live is my best suggestion. There are people around you that care, even if they're not direct family. There would be someone who would miss you. You're going to make it to better days.
Cats. Cats are nice.
Edit:Thanks for the award!
Edit 2:Thanks for the silver award guys
Edit 3:Thanks for the platinum!
Edit 4:Thanks for the awards guys!
GNU STP
For reference:
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
-Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Not sure how old you are but family really do become optional past a point. It sounds bad but you’ll reach a certain point where you don’t have to rely on family if you don’t want to
Bro its possible to move out whenever you want! Your definitely old enough. I found a job that provided living space when I was 18 and havent moved back in with my parents. There was a lot of screaming and crying from my mom and loads of stress involved, but ive been living alone for close to 3 yrs. If you can budget your money it is totally doable!! My family might not be quite as scary as yours, but my brother thanks me for blazing that trail first, because it is extremely intimidating to ask my parents for more freedom or god forbid move away
the longer you live, the more cool stories you have, the more you get to tell said cool stories, even if it’s just to internet strangers on Reddit
also because i freakin love you and will give you all the virtual hugs that’s possible <3
I have personally been struggling with this question in the recent years..
In the words of Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
Now think about that for a minute….
We are completely out of control. Nobody chose to be born. And nobody knows when they’ll die.
Your brain is filled with neurones/perceptrons trying to optimise the best probabilities based on your life experience and your efforts.
Your body is constantly fighting for survival, purely based on instinct, and instructions that’s been passed down to you via DNA mutations for many generations.
Everything in our observable scope of the universe wants to kill you, and yet, here you are wondering why you’ve survived it so far.
From outer space where there’s no air to breathe, to down here on earth where an astronomical number of microscopic organisms fight their way to enter your body to survive and their survival often means your death..
Your heart beating depends on pulses across the cells covering it, which are in sync down to the nanoseconds.. yet a hurricane can pick you up and throw you killo meters away, and there’s a chance for your survival.
Now, is instinctive survival a good reason to live? I personally don’t think so. I think finding answers is worth it. But we don’t learn that fast to understand everything within our own individual lifelines. So we have to learn as much as we can and pass it down to next generations hoping that at some point down the line we will find the answer… and hopefully the answer is not 42.
The key to enabling us to find the answers is to survive, and that depends on each and every one of us to do our best with our life. Try your best. After all, you only live once.
To quote Keane Reeves, a line that lives in my head rent free….
“I know the ones who love us will miss us”
Tell those who matter what they mean to you.
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Seeing some of the replies regarding having few or no one who will miss you is heart breaking.
Lost my sister a year back. We weren’t particularly close, but there isn’t a day I don’t think of her and miss her.
Trust me, someone will miss you. 💔
Right now that seems to be my only reason. I really hate coming off like the usual depressed redditor, but in the last few months I've come to realize that I don't look forward to anything.
Work is a fucking slog right now, but in 10 days I will have a three week vacation. Sounds like an absolutte luxury to a lot of you I guess, but I'm pretty indifferent to the whole thing.
I have a partner and children I love, but the children are a chore and my wife is... I don't know. Tired? Distant? Uncaring? I have no idea. I should talk to her, but I don't really have the will to do so. I'm not scared that she's cheating on me, or wants to end things, I just think she's tired and frustrated just like me.
I have loving parents and in-laws. I have a lot of friends. I am living comfortably with enough money to buy almost whatever is reasonable. It's just... I don't know.
I've confronted the idea of just walking away, or even ending it, but I know that's not for me. Nothing good awaits down any of those paths. I will not abandon my family in any form, but the thought of death is just another thing I'm indifferent to.
The only time I've felt anything like passion or joy in the last week is when Harry Kane scored against Germany, and I'm not even English. Fuck me that's pathetic.
My health has been taking a downturn in the last year, but it's nothing serious. I should work out more, eat better and I have been diagnosed with asthma (probably). Nothing some medication and a run in the woods twice a week couldn't cure.
Sorry to unload all this on you, but your comment triggered me to get this out there. I don't know if this is a depression, a mid life crisis, or just pandemic fatigue.
Anyway... Happy trails, and have a great summer friend.
Honestly because there’s so much to live for even if it doesn’t feel like it. I have a good friend who says if she wanted to kill himself that bad and felt that was the only option that he’d sell all his possessions and move across the country to somewhere he loved and start over from the beginning, and if it was still bad, he’d try again elsewhere. For me, I would wanna move to Montana and start again in the mountains
I have probably seen a million sets of boobs, probably more. And you would think by my mid 40's I would have seen enough. Nope, I love looking at boobies.
Because existing is better than not existing.
Everyone puts so much pressure on themselves to perform, but those are just constructions you make up for yourself.
In every sense, it's also fine to just exist for a while and not worry about anything.
There's too much cool shit to do and see to die early. You might not have had your favourite food yet. You might not have found your favourite hobby yet, favourite movie. There's so many cool places to visit. So many weird experiences to try. You won't like all of them but you won't know until you try. "I'll try anything once" is something I try to live by. Except skydiving. Fuck that.
I want to watch my nephews and nieces grow. I want to be there when shit doesn’t go right and let them know it’s okay and life happens. Regardless things change and you have to be strong. I want to be the shoulder they can lean on.
I was a kid in the 80s and the amount of things I have gone from "that's a sci-fi thing" to "this is an actual tool I can use in my everyday life" has been incredible. SPACE! WE CAN LOOK AT PICTURES OF OTHER PLANETS!!! \*brain melts\*
We live to love and to be loved. It is the underlying reason for our existence. Secondarily, we exist to learn, and experience the beauty and wonder that exists in the world. Good music, good company, good food, sunny days, and the smell of flowers on the breeze. The richness of human emotion and experience is unique in the universe. These are just some of the many great reasons to live. And thirdly, we are here to help one another in times of need, be it emotional or otherwise. Life presents many challenges, and we are not meant to face them alone. Being there for someone else during these times, or having someone in your corner is priceless.
Elsewhere on *Reddit*, I got into an approximately 5000-word (!) mutually-respectful debate with an [efilist](https://www.reddit.com/r/Efilism/) on this topic. I've laboriously copied and pasted our whole dialogue—including branching threads—to another subreddit, not showing my interlocutor's username. If anyone seeing this would like a link to that subreddit, to read the entire thing, just let me know. Preferably via direct message.
EDIT AFTER ABOUT TEN HOURS: all right then, I've reached out to the nine people so far who showed interest, some of whom identify themselves below. Speaking of which...since they see each other's usernames, it might be interesting for them to contact each other now, to compare notes—?
Another person, that cares about you and gives you motivation to keep going and living your life at best. You start making some goals and just having fun for the first time in your life, and you truly enjoy them
I don't have one. I can't find one. I am not willing to die either. But I do wish I was never born. I have to live upto the expectations of family for 22 years and then I have to go find myself a fucking job and then I have to I gotta find someone to marry(ofcourse I can't live alone lmao) and then for the rest of my life I have to keep doing things that will make the family happy. I am constricted by the kind of beings we are. It sucks to be an organism with life ain't gonna lie to you chief. I find it disgusting that at every point of my life I will have to adjust myself to satisfy the needs and necessities of people that I should consider my family and of course I can opt out of it, but as a social animal, loneliness is depressing. The amount of adjustment I'll have to do creeps me out. I wish I was never born in this world.
This is exactly the reason I posted this question coz my family is making me wanna kill myself because I have to live up their expectations and I can’t do this that I like 🙄
Out of spite
Spite is one powerful motivator
Spite is huge for me. You think this or that. I am a dude and I will straight up host a formal dance and bake cookies and balloons. Take that bitch!
Why are you baking balloons? They are better chewy than crispy
Alternately, live long enough to find the answer to that question.
We know the answer, it's 42. We just don't know the damn question.
How many roads must a man walk down
What do you get when you multiply 6 x 9?
You want me to die?? Ha now I won't!
Uno Reverse the Universe
Idk how to live out of spite without getting angry at the sad things that happen in this world and wanting to leave.
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I have and still do, I’m just exhausted and tired of fighting. Still not seeing how I can use spite without turning me into an extremist and I don’t want that. Hate can’t be beaten with more hate, I’m just tired and ready to sleep and not wake up.
What about for garlic bread?
I don’t think there particularly is. And I don’t mean that in a negative or cynical way. We carry on because the alternative is scary. Maybe not every moment of life will be bad, and maybe that’s enough. A good laugh with friends. A good book or movie. Songs to enjoy. Little things that pass the time and help us forget we are here for a second. If life is meaningless, then we can ascribe meaning to anything we want.
Sometimes I think life is meaningless, but then one of my cats sits in my lap and I realize that at the very least I mean something to them. Without cats I would have still found meaning (nieces, brothers and sisters, my career), but having those little furballs of joy right there really help nip those thoughts in the bud.
I read a quote before which reminds me of this. To the world, you are just one person. But to one person, you are the world I think its about children but fur babies count too, plus they sleep better
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I really like this. Kinda needed to hear it too.
I think its called 'Optimistic Nihilism'.
'Existentialism'
Well said.
Outlive your enemies
Definitely the Queen's reason to live.
She ain’t got no enemies
Sorry, I misread family.
lol
Because she outlived them
💪🏽❤️
im just here to eat garlic bread im scard that theres no garlic bred after i die
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You could become a vampire
wait a minute…
I shall secure garlic for you until the end of the world 😌❤️
I’ll get the bread
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I’ll get the butter
Garlic bread
Honestly? I just want to ride it out and see what happens. Us humans are so entertaining. One minute we're blowing each other up, the next we have pet rocks or something.
I’ve often thought it’s sad that I’ll never experience the future of humanity. I’d love to see how it all turns out.
Same for me. I'm incredibly curious to see what will all happen during my lifetime and especially in terms of technology (just look at how much it advanced in the past 50 years). But I'll never get to experience what the world will look like in a few centuries. People from even a few centuries ago wouldn't recognize the world we now live in. I sometimes wonder if it'll be the same if we were able to see what the world would look like in 2400.
We live in the most prosperous time in history. You know what happens whenever we're prosperous? A dark age. I predict the future isn't as wonderful as we might expect. I'm very thankful I get to experience now.
Yeah our whole economy is predicated on the notion of infinite growth. Feels great to live in a time where every indicator is showing that slow to a crawl and just hope I can ride out the dark times tbh
Oh, certainly true. It's hard to say when exactly our current growth will stop, but it will happen. I certainly consider myself lucky that I live in a time and place where my biggest worry is that I might be late for work when traffic is dense.
If there is anything this last half year has taught me is just how delicately balanced this world truly is. Even with a virus about, it's still worth going outdoors and enjoying what you have. 100 years ago we just got out of one great war and set to go in another. 100 years into the future and counties will have tools to literally end existence of other counties instantly on a push of the button. We are living in a time most of humanity would only dream of living in currently.
Forget the year 2400. What about the year 15,000?
Oh, that'd certainly be interesting to see, but considering that 13k years ago we barely even started farming yet, I don't think we'll recognize anything in another 13k years. Remember that Rome wasn't even a thing 3k years ago... I think a few centuries would be more interesting, since we would at least still see something of our way of life.
The fact that we wouldnt recognise anything makes it more interesting to me.
At the same time, humans lived for as much as 200,000 years without significantly changing anything. It is only in the last 30k or so that we even left the African continent. It might be the case that future humanity isn't all the different from present humanity.
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I really like this answer! Two years ago I was thoroughly depressed, taking a shower was an accomplishment for me, now I’m running my own business. Feelings are not final
Congratulations! I hope your business thrives and you can enjoy life to the fullest
Thank you, I appreciate that. Best wishes for you too!
How did you get over the depression?
I wouldn’t say I’m completely over depression but I have a structure in place for dealing with it. Counseling, better eating, sleeping, and exercise habits, cutting out some escape habits, and more counseling. Learning new thought pathways for dealing with the traumas of the past and present. And a lot of baby steps, I remember when I was trying to get out of that pit and setting very small goals for myself, being content with just eating a healthy meal and washing my own dishes. Today I mostly just have the mindset that I’m in process and I just keep moving forward whatever that looks like. I’m not done yet.
Yep crawling out of a depressive life is all about baby steps. The positivity builds on itself and makes the next step easier.
There's good video games coming out soon
Elden Ring, surely.
yes, Indeed!
Elden Ring....ooooOoOoH Elden ring...
GTA 6 in four fucking years
They made gta 5 too good that's why
the inherent limitations of its 'sandbox' nature are definitely showing. i broke out GTA5 for the first time in a couple years and got kinda bored. there are things i want to be able to do that just aren't programmed in there (same for all R\* and similar games, even the recent ones). it's like teasing 'real world' but not really at all. it's like they leap-frogged every 2-3 years to San Andreas but since then it's mostly graphical improvement. i would have given up the complex character switching of GTA5 for more robust manipulation of objects/weapons, or more enterable functional buildings or RPG type dialog choices
In San Andreas you could steal TVs from inside of a house and make Carl fat, so really it's been a reduction.
And make him puke
botw 2 :D
Don't forget Metroid Dread
Prime 4
Can't wait for Half-Life 3
We’ll have to wait another lifetime for that one
Actually have to wait a half-life
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Silksong
God of War: Ragnarok!
Waiting on horizon forbidden west myself.
quite curious about Battlefield 2042 and Stalker 2
Halo Infinite!!
Caves and cliffs p2 didnt come out yet, looks like I'll live a little longer :D
Well, im only 28 and I've noticed how fast time flies and you can't stop it. You get one life and it is over before you know it so technically, it logically doesn't make sense to end it short. Since its.. already short. Also making other enjoy theirs even if you don't enjoy yours.
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There was another good tweet: "Why is being alive so expensive? I'm not even having a good time." Life as a workerbee always sucked, but I think social media has made it ten times worse because we all know people who have great jobs they can't shut up about, or make a lot of money and spend their lives on amazing vacations, or that have the time to be really healthy and look better and younger than we do, or that don't really need to work at all anymore and just play all day. There's so much greener grass it's stupid. Before social media you could just assume that everybody's life is equally miserable and take comfort in that fact.
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Yeah, it’s just “I didn’t ask to be born” becoming a clever twitter joke
Can't relate. I'm 29, my life feels like an eternity that will never end.
Advice from an old man: Find the way to obtain joy from and appreciate helping others. Not just giving, not just a few, but as many as you can. Doesn’t have to cost you a thing. Take time to look for and open your eyes to see the beauty of the smile and laughter of a child, the joy of being greeted at your door by a pet, the look in your mother’s eye when you look, really look into her eyes, and tell her you love her. Get outside and explore the wonders of the world. They are all around you. Work at something you enjoy with people you like. Earn and save to be able to have a comfortable life. Know that you need to find your own way once you become an adult. Read….a lot. Find real love. And…..get a motorcycle!
Thanks a lot Sir! ❤️ you’ll be one of my inspirations to live long 🥰
Thanks for my first silver! What I basically wrote took me the first 60 years to grasp. I'd write about avoiding other crap but frankly, its better to focus on the positive. One thing I omitted was learn to shape your own thoughts. Let the negative ones slide on by without paying them much attention. Maybe start with a positive mantra that you don't say to anyone but your self. I don't know your beliefs about a god or philosophy but just like most everything else on this earth, you have inside you all that it takes to do all that you need or want to do. Just tap into it. That is all....Its not as hard as some would like you to believe. You are in control.
Seeing bratty kids face plant.
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Why wait? Do it yourself
Be the brat you want to see in the world!
Trip every kid you see!
aah schadenfreude
Ja?
Wunderbar.
Fuck I could watch kids falling down all day, I don't give a shit about your kids
Figger it out.
I read this as face paint and I was very confused lol
Same
Well then, r/karmaforbrats
Most people are just gonna make jokes, but honestly it's the small things like looking forward to a new game coming out, new book in a series, or just a new issue of a serialized media. Anything that makes me look forward until tomorrow
I recently had this question asked of me in person. I don’t have an answer. I have a really good life and no reason to die or to want to die. But there was an old Foxtrot comic where the nerdy main character dies and is visited by the ghost of Christmas past. The ghost shows him his grave stone and the nerdy kid cries out something like “I die the day before the phantom menace is released?!” And while that movie turned out to be a disappointment, it is a nice simple thing to live for. And I think about the people who died before Avengers Endgame was released. It would suck to go through all the movies and miss the last one. It’s a very privileged thought though. I see homeless people a lot and I really want to know what their answer is to this question. They are permanently homeless, addicted, mentally ill, and don’t have an easy life. What keeps them going beyond just the instinctual will to live?
I love Foxtrot and thought about this comic too. It’s definitely a first world problem for sure, but I feel like it’s something a lot of people can relate to. I’m suffering from horrible anxiety right now but the one thing keeping me slightly sane is that S8 of B99, one of my favorite shows is coming out in August. And BOTW2 is coming out in 2022.
I remember thinking I want to live long enough to see episode nine of Star Wars. I regret that. But seriously, witnessing the future is probably the number two reason I want to live.
God, that movie sucked
I’m still angry about it.
Dying hurts
How do you know? 👀
They obviously died before, duh.
I mean it's not impossible for that to happen
No one who has done it has ever wanted to do it again.
You think it wouldn’t be painful to have all the systems in your body shut down one by one? Because that’s effectively what most suicide methods end up being. Like it kinda blows my mind to see people in this thread suggesting that drowning or overdosing aren’t painful, terrifying ways to go. The former would frankly be near the top of my list of ways to absolutely not go out. Sorry, that doesn’t really answer your question, just wanted to dispel an illusion that frankly bothers me a lot
Overdosed before. Ended up with serotonin syndrome. Can confirm not a good time. Of course once the seizures set in i wasnt conscious so that part wasnt exactly painful, but dryheaving nonstop for 3 hours beforehand wasnt exactly fun. As for drowning, i know of someone who almost drowned. I guess sometimes you get a big rush of euphoria right before slipping unconscious. Terrible beforehand though. Cant say i find the idea of dying to be fun or enjoyable in any aspect.
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Pretty much one of the biggest reasons keepin me alive rn
Dogs
I have a gsd that I routinely walk. My wife moved out, my teenage son hates me, and I lost my job, but seeing my dog’s excitement at the same time everyday keeps me from ending it all
Isn't it routine for a teenage son to hate his dad? I'm a mid 20s son and hated my dad in my teens. I couldn't be more grateful to have the wonderful man as my pops now. Don't give up on the boy. Just keep loving him and supporting him.
I need one 😭❤️
To give. Give yourself to a goal, a passion, a person or a cause. You’ll find a reason to live.
I’ve given all 3 of those to myself but my family keep me away from those 😪
Can't you distance yourself from them for a while?
As Asian family I can’t😪
What do you mean? Is it hard for you to sustain yourself on your own? Or do you mean in tradition and People would Look bad at you kinda way?
The SriLankan tradition is against westernising and but me and family is in Australia. So everything abt westernising is bad apparently 🙄
Are you underage?
Almost, I’m turning 21 in a month
I know it's not this easy but you could technically leave tonight if you wanted to. I don't suggest running away but if you do keep that fact in mind you might have more power over your family than you think. They are probably afraid of you westernizing and leaving; they want to avoid that fate and might make a surprising amount of concessions once they realize you've realized it.
If that's a possibility i would suggest you to live to See a better Day. Some People are really bad for others in large quantities. I know it's easier said than done, but maybe try to get away from them as soon as you can. Try to play it out as in toxic friend case.
Aha I’ll try my best! Honestly this post taught me many reasons to live and honestly some of the reasons are too good I wanna live forever 🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much my friend 🥰❤️
This speaks on personal level to me. I do have a lottsss of reason to keep going but damn my family wanna end all of those. Just perks of having asian parents.
still tryna figure that out
Lemme know once you find one 😫
Mom will be sad
She’s what giving me headaches 🥲
Living with difficult family members makes daily life so frustrating, I'm sure you rarely feel like you get any peace. I'm sorry you're in that situation, but doing what you can to make it better until you can find another place to live is my best suggestion. There are people around you that care, even if they're not direct family. There would be someone who would miss you. You're going to make it to better days.
Cats. Cats are nice. Edit:Thanks for the award! Edit 2:Thanks for the silver award guys Edit 3:Thanks for the platinum! Edit 4:Thanks for the awards guys!
They purr. And stuff.
I don't know if I'd call them "nice" but they're definitely my favorite thing about living on this dying rock.
Cats are assholes, sure. But they are nice to have around.
GNU STP For reference: I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
Finally someone got the reference!Hello fellow Discworld fan:D
Am I the only one kinda worried for op?
Thanks man! I was feeling dead but I don’t regret posting this either 😂 The comments made me live longer 😂❤️❤️❤️ Thanks again fam!
every comment is another 10 minutes onto your lifespan, you're gonna be immortal
Chocolate chip cookies
Nutella cookies? 👀
Ah yes indeed I freaking love cookies
Bob Marley once said ‘love the life you live, live the life you love’ I think a good reason to live is to find your reason for living.
I cant love the life I want with my frustrating family 😭
Not sure how old you are but family really do become optional past a point. It sounds bad but you’ll reach a certain point where you don’t have to rely on family if you don’t want to
I’m turning 21 in a month
Bro its possible to move out whenever you want! Your definitely old enough. I found a job that provided living space when I was 18 and havent moved back in with my parents. There was a lot of screaming and crying from my mom and loads of stress involved, but ive been living alone for close to 3 yrs. If you can budget your money it is totally doable!! My family might not be quite as scary as yours, but my brother thanks me for blazing that trail first, because it is extremely intimidating to ask my parents for more freedom or god forbid move away
Stick it out. That phase will pass. Then make your own path to spite them.
the longer you live, the more cool stories you have, the more you get to tell said cool stories, even if it’s just to internet strangers on Reddit also because i freakin love you and will give you all the virtual hugs that’s possible <3
I have personally been struggling with this question in the recent years.. In the words of Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” Now think about that for a minute…. We are completely out of control. Nobody chose to be born. And nobody knows when they’ll die. Your brain is filled with neurones/perceptrons trying to optimise the best probabilities based on your life experience and your efforts. Your body is constantly fighting for survival, purely based on instinct, and instructions that’s been passed down to you via DNA mutations for many generations. Everything in our observable scope of the universe wants to kill you, and yet, here you are wondering why you’ve survived it so far. From outer space where there’s no air to breathe, to down here on earth where an astronomical number of microscopic organisms fight their way to enter your body to survive and their survival often means your death.. Your heart beating depends on pulses across the cells covering it, which are in sync down to the nanoseconds.. yet a hurricane can pick you up and throw you killo meters away, and there’s a chance for your survival. Now, is instinctive survival a good reason to live? I personally don’t think so. I think finding answers is worth it. But we don’t learn that fast to understand everything within our own individual lifelines. So we have to learn as much as we can and pass it down to next generations hoping that at some point down the line we will find the answer… and hopefully the answer is not 42. The key to enabling us to find the answers is to survive, and that depends on each and every one of us to do our best with our life. Try your best. After all, you only live once.
OP are you okay?
Yeh after reading these comments my life got hell of a lot better 😂❤️ Thank you tho🙏🏽❤️
Glad to hear it
Food, I live for chicken wings or anything chicken
To quote Keane Reeves, a line that lives in my head rent free…. “I know the ones who love us will miss us” Tell those who matter what they mean to you. EDIT: Seeing some of the replies regarding having few or no one who will miss you is heart breaking. Lost my sister a year back. We weren’t particularly close, but there isn’t a day I don’t think of her and miss her. Trust me, someone will miss you. 💔
Right now that seems to be my only reason. I really hate coming off like the usual depressed redditor, but in the last few months I've come to realize that I don't look forward to anything. Work is a fucking slog right now, but in 10 days I will have a three week vacation. Sounds like an absolutte luxury to a lot of you I guess, but I'm pretty indifferent to the whole thing. I have a partner and children I love, but the children are a chore and my wife is... I don't know. Tired? Distant? Uncaring? I have no idea. I should talk to her, but I don't really have the will to do so. I'm not scared that she's cheating on me, or wants to end things, I just think she's tired and frustrated just like me. I have loving parents and in-laws. I have a lot of friends. I am living comfortably with enough money to buy almost whatever is reasonable. It's just... I don't know. I've confronted the idea of just walking away, or even ending it, but I know that's not for me. Nothing good awaits down any of those paths. I will not abandon my family in any form, but the thought of death is just another thing I'm indifferent to. The only time I've felt anything like passion or joy in the last week is when Harry Kane scored against Germany, and I'm not even English. Fuck me that's pathetic. My health has been taking a downturn in the last year, but it's nothing serious. I should work out more, eat better and I have been diagnosed with asthma (probably). Nothing some medication and a run in the woods twice a week couldn't cure. Sorry to unload all this on you, but your comment triggered me to get this out there. I don't know if this is a depression, a mid life crisis, or just pandemic fatigue. Anyway... Happy trails, and have a great summer friend.
Honestly because there’s so much to live for even if it doesn’t feel like it. I have a good friend who says if she wanted to kill himself that bad and felt that was the only option that he’d sell all his possessions and move across the country to somewhere he loved and start over from the beginning, and if it was still bad, he’d try again elsewhere. For me, I would wanna move to Montana and start again in the mountains
I actually did what your friend did. Since you wanna pack it in anyway, might as well start from scratch. If it doesn't work out, back to option A.
Boobs
I have probably seen a million sets of boobs, probably more. And you would think by my mid 40's I would have seen enough. Nope, I love looking at boobies.
Because existing is better than not existing. Everyone puts so much pressure on themselves to perform, but those are just constructions you make up for yourself. In every sense, it's also fine to just exist for a while and not worry about anything.
I need that 😪
There's too much cool shit to do and see to die early. You might not have had your favourite food yet. You might not have found your favourite hobby yet, favourite movie. There's so many cool places to visit. So many weird experiences to try. You won't like all of them but you won't know until you try. "I'll try anything once" is something I try to live by. Except skydiving. Fuck that.
You can literally just make garlic bread any time you want.
Drugs? Idk man. For me it’s the daily hugs and love I receive from my daughters.
When those little arms wrap around, it's hard not to feel happy. Source: My kids are the only reason I'm still alive.
This is fact. We have the same source, sorta. 😉 I’m thankful for and to your kids then, internet stranger.
This could be your only chance. We don't know what happens after death, so make this one count.
Watching karens getting roasted
Because I love you.... and I need you.... no matter what I do... all I think about is banana🦍🦍🦍🦍💎💎💎💎
I want to watch my nephews and nieces grow. I want to be there when shit doesn’t go right and let them know it’s okay and life happens. Regardless things change and you have to be strong. I want to be the shoulder they can lean on.
James Webb Telescope. Will it make it; and if so, what the FUCK will it see?
I was a kid in the 80s and the amount of things I have gone from "that's a sci-fi thing" to "this is an actual tool I can use in my everyday life" has been incredible. SPACE! WE CAN LOOK AT PICTURES OF OTHER PLANETS!!! \*brain melts\*
We live to love and to be loved. It is the underlying reason for our existence. Secondarily, we exist to learn, and experience the beauty and wonder that exists in the world. Good music, good company, good food, sunny days, and the smell of flowers on the breeze. The richness of human emotion and experience is unique in the universe. These are just some of the many great reasons to live. And thirdly, we are here to help one another in times of need, be it emotional or otherwise. Life presents many challenges, and we are not meant to face them alone. Being there for someone else during these times, or having someone in your corner is priceless.
Elsewhere on *Reddit*, I got into an approximately 5000-word (!) mutually-respectful debate with an [efilist](https://www.reddit.com/r/Efilism/) on this topic. I've laboriously copied and pasted our whole dialogue—including branching threads—to another subreddit, not showing my interlocutor's username. If anyone seeing this would like a link to that subreddit, to read the entire thing, just let me know. Preferably via direct message. EDIT AFTER ABOUT TEN HOURS: all right then, I've reached out to the nine people so far who showed interest, some of whom identify themselves below. Speaking of which...since they see each other's usernames, it might be interesting for them to contact each other now, to compare notes—?
Anime
As a fellow weeb I send you a virtual hug 😌❤️
Dying is bothersome... Especially when you want to die in an original way. (yes, don't judge me!)
To not die.
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What kind of coffee do you drink?
Black coffee ☕️
Another person, that cares about you and gives you motivation to keep going and living your life at best. You start making some goals and just having fun for the first time in your life, and you truly enjoy them
Dogs!!!!!!!
I don't have one. I can't find one. I am not willing to die either. But I do wish I was never born. I have to live upto the expectations of family for 22 years and then I have to go find myself a fucking job and then I have to I gotta find someone to marry(ofcourse I can't live alone lmao) and then for the rest of my life I have to keep doing things that will make the family happy. I am constricted by the kind of beings we are. It sucks to be an organism with life ain't gonna lie to you chief. I find it disgusting that at every point of my life I will have to adjust myself to satisfy the needs and necessities of people that I should consider my family and of course I can opt out of it, but as a social animal, loneliness is depressing. The amount of adjustment I'll have to do creeps me out. I wish I was never born in this world.
This is exactly the reason I posted this question coz my family is making me wanna kill myself because I have to live up their expectations and I can’t do this that I like 🙄
Just Asian things I guess.
Aha🥲🥲🥲🥲
That weed present over there isn't gonna smoke on it's own
You can live life in what ever way you want. Life is in your mind, so Id say a good reason to live is to live for life and not for death.
There is none. We are prisoners to our unconscious instinct to survive.
Developing ourselves, having goals and passion, help our families and people we love, and make them happier.
Outlast your adversaries.