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What keeps you going every day?
- Thread starter SolVanderlyn
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My mother, my girlfriend and my dog. Personal goals/milestones I've set for myself both in my career and personal life. Staying financially stable while balancing the costs of living and investing in my future. Staying as fit and healthy as I can. Consuming entertainment of all forms (artworks, photography, movies, shows, games, etc).
Lmao
Everyone's life has improved with my decision and you got a chuckle out of it. Net net positive.
Well, this season of Attack on Titan is over now, and I don't want to read any further than I already have into the manga.
What will keep me going? Waiting for the next season? Nah, too far away. Maybe a new great show will appear?
Waiting for Trump and his racists to get their comeuppance? Playing video games? Awesome movies?
Finding great songs and music? Finding great literature, poems, intellectual rhetoric of those wiser in all fields?
The only way to counter my nihilism is knowing that life is big fucking game of chance and unfair systems where you don't get a say in your handicaps, and If I am really all that and a bag of chips I am going to have to conquer my struggles and go down fighting instead of whining while life does its best to deconstruct any advantages.
What will keep me going? Waiting for the next season? Nah, too far away. Maybe a new great show will appear?
Waiting for Trump and his racists to get their comeuppance? Playing video games? Awesome movies?
Finding great songs and music? Finding great literature, poems, intellectual rhetoric of those wiser in all fields?
The only way to counter my nihilism is knowing that life is big fucking game of chance and unfair systems where you don't get a say in your handicaps, and If I am really all that and a bag of chips I am going to have to conquer my struggles and go down fighting instead of whining while life does its best to deconstruct any advantages.
I gotta paint
gotta get skilled, gotta get good
there's so much out there to paint I gotta see it all
also I need to see how one piece ends lmao
gotta get skilled, gotta get good
there's so much out there to paint I gotta see it all
also I need to see how one piece ends lmao
When you get to the realization that life is deeply meaningless and pointless, you don't need many reasons to keep going. You just do because you're supposed to do it, it's all that you can do.
Other than that, i'm enjoying life and i'm very glad.
Other than that, i'm enjoying life and i'm very glad.
Yes, wanted to say something similar. Deeper philosophical questions aside, human existence is like winning some kind of cosmic lottery.
Personal stuff:
-Family
-Designing and DMing "no-dice-allowed" D&D campaign
-Listening to volunteer community radio while driving, especially the local punk and post-punk program
-Experiencing "flow state" AKA being "in the zone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
-Similarly, becoming completely immersed in a game, book, music, etc.
-Italian food, chocolate, ice cream
-Dwelling on various elements of Buddhist and Daoist philosophy
-Learning history, especially history of religion
-Being out in nature during the wet season
Great thread idea OP, it was cathartic just typing this out!
I'm too afraid of darker alternatives.
Meds.
Family (especially siblings and some sweet dogs).
Trying to get back into doing creative work.
Meds.
Family (especially siblings and some sweet dogs).
Trying to get back into doing creative work.
I recognize this sentiment, but I think it can also be articulated in a positive way as one's reason for existing being the pursuit existential satisfaction itself. In fact, I myself would claim that all other pursuits can fuck off, but a holistic conception of satisfaction within life seems to encompass things like virtue as well. So I don't know whether it should be presented as some kind of self-actualization, or enlightenment, or a kind of perspective., or just having enough joy and equanimity within our circumstances that we can usually give a fairly emphatic yes to the 'live? y/n' question when polled. It's arguably the only question we have to answer in life, because it is fundamentally about our life, so I think the question of meaning can also be articulated in a positive way. We have a legitimate internal sense of what meaning is, simply in virtue of what might satisfy our desire for meaning, making it at the very least be theoretically accessible. So why not think that there is meaning of a kind, if we grant that it won't be 'out there' in any sort of strict sense, but something potentially revealed to us through our own honest attempts to pursue it.
If I'm gone who's going to take care of my mother and brother and sister? My father doesn't have much time left and they will be alone to fend for themselves.
The hope that someday I will find some sort of happiness.
The hope that I will love again.
The desire to continue improving my artistic skills.
The goal of creating the most beautiful painting in the history of the world.
Oh, and Avatar 2. Actually, mostly Avatar 2.
The hope that I will love again.
The desire to continue improving my artistic skills.
The goal of creating the most beautiful painting in the history of the world.
Oh, and Avatar 2. Actually, mostly Avatar 2.
This is a super strange one, but there's two things:
1. I want to get LGBT normalized within Indonesian culture (so no stuff that doesnt fly for anyone here like public display of affection)
2. I want to live to see the day where Vocaloid is no longer seen as an anime robot.
1. I want to get LGBT normalized within Indonesian culture (so no stuff that doesnt fly for anyone here like public display of affection)
2. I want to live to see the day where Vocaloid is no longer seen as an anime robot.
My research in mathematics (so much to learn yet though) and my girlfriend. I'm in a very good place honestly, couldn't ask for more.
I've been working with my coven to summon Astaroth for years, to not only pull Saint Bartholomew into hell but to also lead us to riches. We're making progress so I am hanging in there.