If you are alive and have nothing to live for are you truly alive?

Yes, you are alive, but you are not living your life, you are only existing. Life is going to happen and time is going to pass whether you actively participate and seek happiness, or whether you sit on your rear and complain and feel sorry for yourself. Is life hard? Yes. But it is hard for everyone, even those who seem to have it easy face struggles. But here is a hard fact I learned after many many years of suffering and feeling like the victim of life always getting the short stick - no one is responsible for your happiness but you. And the more you wallow in the bad, the more you will create bad. The more you focus on the good, the more you will create good and find enjoyment.

So if you are unhappy with your life, change it. Start by changing your attitude about life. When you tell yourself you are the victim, that you always get the short end, then guess what? That is all you will experience in life. If you can turn that around and find opportunity and lessons and growth when things go wrong, then the bad times won't suck as much and you'll find you are having more and more good times. You have the power to decide how to live while you are alive. Are you going to embrace life and live it to the fullest, or are you merely going to exist in life and feel sorry for yourself as time continues to pass with your without you participating?

Stop worrying about the past, stop focusing on what HAS happened and start to focus on the future and what you want to happen and what CAN happen, then make it happen. Will everything be perfect? No. Will everything go right? No. You will fall, you will fail, things will go wrong, but as long as you pick yourself up and keep focusing on the good and moving forward with a goal then you are making progress. If you stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive then you will be happier.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, the future is your to make what you want out of it. What are you going to do? Waste today and tomorrow and the next day and in a year find yourself in the exact same spot? Of start making changes today so in a year you can look back and say wow, I've come a long way and I'm looking forward to tomorrow to see what comes next!

You are alive. You just can't let life do that to you. I've been getting screwed over a lot lately. But I don't give up because I know there's something better ahead. I know it may seem like it won't get better. Ever. I've been there. I cut. I was too scared to kill myself. Life is a struggle. All of your life. But it's the good things that we don't see because we're so focused on the bad. I know you probly don't want to hear the psychiatrist schpeel, but I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm a survivor. Life sucks. But there is a good side. Take some time. Meditate and try to see the good in your life. If you can't, don't just sit back and do nothing. Make something for yourself. Because that one day when you get to where you wanna be, you'll look back and say "I did this. I made this for myself." You will be proud. It's worth it. Believe me. My girlfriend has bipolar and has been diagnosed with God knows how many different chemical imbalances. She was molested as a child and tried to kill herself many times. Now she says she's glad she didn't succeed. Just think about what I said.

No. You breathe, you eat, you drink, you do things routinely to continue life, but you are not alive. You have to find the thing that will be the reason of your life, whether be your dreams, your family, or whatsoever. Life comes like a one way road. And it sucks, you see. but it depends on you how you won't let it screw you up. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do, what you think is right for you and will bring you happiness, and go with it. Only in that way can you live life and be alive.

Life offers you a choice. When something happens, it is neither good nor bad. It depends entirely on how you choose to experience it. You can choose to experience a challenge by feeling sorry for yourself, or you can accept that challenge with an attitude that you enjoy having to overcome something to get the reward of growing as a human being.

Then do something about it. Do whatever it is that you've always wanted to do.