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What is your reason to stay alive and carry on with your life?

'No reason' also counts.

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    My Visa charge card. I can't do anything until that's paid off.

  • asul
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    If I was asked this question a year ago, I would say my family... for my mother most especially. Lately, I felt that my reason has changed. I am starting to feel that I do not like to live for anyone or for anything anymore for once they are all gone, I might feel the need to end my life.

    I have recently been searching for a (new) reason that which is permanent but will keep me changing... evolving towards a better perspective. That which will improve the quality of my thoughts, my life and what I know about myself and the world that surrounds me. A voice tells me to hold on for today and find things when I wake up by tomorrow.

    Whatever that is, I do not think I can give my reason a name or a label. I just know that there is more to life... that I just need to be patient and be surprised when the moment comes. In the meantime, I would like to stay strong because everytime I look at my dog's eyes, I know he needs me to take care of him.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You want to keep your life going and stay alive because some people have meanings and some people don't, for the people that don't think they have meaning, well every life has a purpose and you should stay alive to find out what that purpose in your life is.

  • Prasad
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Our interests and behavioral dispositions are as unique as our fingerprints.

    Even within a family, one’s way of being happy may not be the same with another. One, for example, may find that he is happier when he is in a contemplative mood and his twin brother, steeped in group laughter and fun, may find solitary disposition rather boring.

    We notice that the differences grow bigger when one has to deal with people from other cultures.

    http://awate.com/unique-as-our-fingerprints/

    Humans are free to do what they want, without this freedom there could be no morality. In such a case, no basis for what could be deemed as good or bad behavior in the eyes of a God because without freewill we would just be pre-programmed unable to change or alter what has already been laid out in front of us. There are only two things certain in each one of our lives, we live, and then we die, everything in between is up to the individual.

    Hard determinism only clouds the mind if we are enslaved to thinking we are free, then those who believe that they have no control over life are going through life making decisions based on what they perceive as pre-determined. To say we have a path set for us is to make us no more than a robot, and because robots cannot discuss topics intelligently and cannot act intelligently in situations proves that theory wrong.

    We all have identity each human individual is unique even twins are different. Our minds are just as unique as our fingerprints

    http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/90697.html

    Every child is born with a unique set of personality traits. Ask any

    woman who has given birth to two or more children and she will attest to

    the fact that while still in the womb her children showed marked

    differences in their behavior.

    http://www.enotalone.com/article/5582.html

    We are all individualistic, meaning that we are all different in thinking.

    Our minds are as different as our finger prints -

    no two are identical. Palmistry also says the same

    thing. Every human is unique. Not only do our

    organs differ, but our personalities differ. Each

    human develops different goals, and has special

    traits or feelings which differ in a million

    different ways from others.

    Significant differences exist between the male and female brains. Although what follows has been meticulously gathered from the research and writings of leading scientists and psychologists, it is by no means a hard and fast rule or description of every man and every woman. Every person is different and unique.

    That every person is unique and has an intrinsic worth.

    http://www.answers.com/Phenomenology

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  • I always had big hopes and dreams. Now when I am grown up, 23, and life turned out to be something different from what we were taught, and it made me banish all my hopes and dreams from my head and see bitter reality around me, I decided to go with flow and don't care about things at all. I decided to taste any kind of sick pleasure and experience things that would be provocative for anyone. I do not care about my innocent soul anymore. When I die, I just die.

  • Erika
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    people who Take their own Lives do no longer think of of the stress, melancholy And soreness that they're going to reason For the human beings around Them (kin, pals and so forth..) this is the Cowards way Of handling existence. anybody Has issues In existence. :)

  • 8 years ago

    Well I hope someday that something will come along and give me a purpose or maybe just a hobby or interest but it may not happen and my life may be wasted but that's just fine with me

  • 8 years ago

    Finding the reason to keep on living with living each day :)

  • 8 years ago

    Because it sure sounds better than death for now..

    If I had some horrible terminal disease or something, I suppose I wouldn't really want to continue on this ride..

  • 8 years ago

    Does 'No idea' count as an answer too?

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