Why go on with life like this?

Should the loss of one thing make a good reason for losing another? If you lose one thing then this is bad, and if you lose two a tragedy, but the loss of the third would be an important lesson for you in reality, about the nature of this world, that nothing lasts for every. The greatest of all loses is that of time, the time passes, as they say, and in its wakes leaves us much changed and different than we were before. There is no point trying to escape as there is nothing aside. Life is all we have, and I believe life is all we need to make good of everything; in the same life there are questions as well as answers. One might think this is too much, and it is too late, but I would say this is not enough, one still has time.

May be you are still the man of answers; you still seek answers, expecting to find all of them. But life, where life it is at its best, only questions exist. The questions of life that we need to believe in; they are like pointers to our faith in greater things. ‘Why do you go on like this’, because you still have hope, you still ask questions, which is good.

I heard of this inspirational speech before "Do not worry on unnecessary numbers. e.g. age or weight.

In fact age should not be some issue to bother someone.

And also whether a person "really" lonely does not depend on whether he/she is surrounded by many family members. It all depends on one's mindset. Really. It's all about mindset. If a person's mind has such tranquility that he feels he has many people caring or surrounded by many people (even though there is none in reality), he still can be happy and at peace. We must think of the bright side. There are some people who have big family. But then they have to worry for their spouse (whether their spouses are loyal) and their children etc.

So isn't it also a blessing that you do not worry for anyone. I am not trying to be a sarcastic. Of course if you have a family and every family members are loving each other, it is also another kind of blessing.

Also having a life threatening illness should not pull back one's life too because in this world there are many people who live their life fully till the last day with severe illness (like cancer). So I would say if a person has positive mindset or with the right religious practise, he/she should not worry the above stated "troubles".

Remember "Count your blessings. Not your troubles".

It is not up to us to decide the value of any life old or young good or bad.

As to the old age stuff it is possible for us to write a living will that states that we do not want to be kept alive or resuscitated.

People grow spiritually through service so there has to be opportunities for us to serve our fellow man etc. Maybe old people who need help are an opportunity:)) I for one volunteer in a care home a couple of hours a week .

Love all Serve all

well if the life threatening illness isnt giving him pain then i think he should stop thinking about dealth and enjoy life a bit more.

Im very good friends with a lady who is 103. She is posative and funny. If someone sufferes alot of pain then understandably yes they deserve the peace. but u did not mention pain.

Hi Woodie, it must horrible but they say there is always a reason for him to be still a live eg may be his children where suffering and his wife more then him and to other people not to give up.i had friend who had cancer for 23yrs some people would say shes so strong i don.t no how she does it but she had a good faith.

Because you're a long time gone you will catch up with your wife and son in time.Staying here you just may find you have more to give more to learn more to enjoy first.Life is very tough I agree with you there but the way we handle it can be the thing to make it achievable or not.You must still be able to enjoy your here looking through questions after all.Divertion is a good thing so are these *hugs*

who knows how we affect each others lives - the point is sometime obscured by what seem more compelling facts but sometimes there is point in suffering that touches some human part of another - It is also never to late to come to forgiveness and understanding for your self.

It is not really up to us to judge the point or pointlessness of anothers life as we don't know from outside what learning they are going through.

Some people learn more in their final years that they did the rest of their life.

I suppose if you were religious you could say that suffering before death will allow you to better appreciate the joys of afterlife?

I'm not religious so I just had an Outside the Box experience there...

Well, once my first love passes away im going to feel very alone.

I hope I pass before.

but to answer.... family.

being there for them.

but then again I wouldn't want to be living off medicine

suffering from cancer... so I told my family to pull the plug.

There is a short story by the great Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, about this very thing. It's on the internet at:

http://www1.umn.edu/lol-russ/PopLit/where_love_is,...

It was updated and made into a movie for television.