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A Kirk asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

What is one thing you couldn't live without?

air,food, drink, shelter blah blah, those are a given.

Something that if it was taken away you would feel the absence of and couldn't function.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I have a couple answers, but this is just me.

    Human interaction. I myself am not that social, and I don't really like people that much. But- as much as I don't like us, I really need to see other people there, like I'm not the last remaining person alive. A friend or a family member, or even just a total stranger, I have to see someone or another every now and again.

    Music. This one may sound odd, but it's very true for me. I don't need it physically, but mentally I need to have something playing of any genre at all times. I remember just this past week, I didn't listen to any music at all for hours, and I was jittery, had headaches, and couldn't focus. I wasn't sick, I didn't have any caffeine or sugar (sodas, coffee, candy) and I was perfectly fine after putting on the radio.

    Hope this helps. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    if we are talking absolute survival there isn't much left. i suppose access to my own mind and body (like if i was paralyzed entirely) would be the only thing that would cause me a permanent loss of function. i would very much feel the absence of the collect few people that i hold dear to me if they became lost to me and likely i would not be fully functional for a while. but my life has shown me that surviving is a different thing from thriving. that you can survive on very little but it takes love to thrive.

  • 1 decade ago

    It would probably be a combination of the loss of my faith, my family, my urge to help others in need, and my creativity.

    Without my faith, I would still stay alive so my family would have me, without my family I would stay alive because I had my faith. Without my creativity, I wouldn't be able to do anything that would make me happy, but I would still have my family and God. If I had lost everything else, I would still try to help others in pain, because they needed me.

    Without them, I wouldn't have anything else worth living for, so I would pretty much just give up with life.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Routine

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  • A.V.R.
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Awareness.

  • 1 decade ago

    MY GIRL =) no doubt and the love of my life i love them without them i wouldn't be living

    right now i'm not living cause i'm not with them LOL i'm loving my self learning & growing to be the greatest love alive for my girl one day but not for the love of my life, i'll just be in her life though

    & being with the love of my life, in her life is just the besttt couldn't ask for anything else but her happy in my life

    i feel & love my girls =)

    edit: imo friends are naturally given if you are who are u know, it's just naturally for me that's all

  • 1 decade ago

    A honest soul, connected to the ultimate reality, without which, one is not really human.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ability to choose

  • 1 decade ago

    my family. <3

  • 1 decade ago

    Imagination with the arts in mind

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