What is currently worth living for?
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I'm genuinely drawing blanks here.
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My kids. But I'm already living for them. You gotta find someone else's kids to live for.
Feels like kicking the can down the road. I would not want to be a kid growing up in this world seeing what it has become, and the dire fucking future ahead.
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Gotta show her I can be stable before she's gone.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Mine's already gone, and I failed to do the thing you said. OPs question cuts really fucking deep.
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The only way to stay sane if you ask me.
Ignoring reality?
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Survival instincts is forcing me to live... I don't have a choice...
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๏ธMine are rapidly wearing off.
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My dogs.
Yeah dogs. I don't have my own, but even every street dog I come across makes my life at least borderline bearable.
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Lol, everyone's thought their generation is the end times.
Some were right, and the last one will also be.
What you're doing is called inductive reasoning, and it's not very bright.
"Lol, every day I wake up alive. Therefore, I will never die."
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When I was a boy we all knew the world would end in nuclear war.
Because if there are two things that are comparable, it's the mercurial whims of man vs the unstoppable force that is nature. And much like humans, nature can be reasoned with and convinced to not destroy everything.
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Sunrises and sunsets, fresh air, sex, love, meeting new people, walking in nature, meeting animals, feeling emotions, marvelling at the wonder of your own existence, fighting oppression, being part of the solution, forming or joining communities, reading books, playing games, bouncing a ball, whistling, art, music films, dancing, quietly thinking, solving problems, being creative, chatting, making friends, falling in love, smelling flowers and herbs, eating great food, exercising, helping to bring about positive change even in small ways, laughter, riding a bike/scooter/horse/unicycle, painting, crayons, massage, feeding the hungry, helping others, finding peace, swimming in the ocean or lakes, climbing a tree, growing food.... And this doesn't cover a 100th of it. Times are hard, so many things are bad, but there's always a lot to live for.
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Sunrises and sunsets, fresh air, sex, love, meeting new people, walking in nature, meeting animals, feeling emotions, marvelling at the wonder of your own existence, fighting oppression, being part of the solution, forming or joining communities, reading books, playing games, bouncing a ball, whistling, art, music films, dancing, quietly thinking, solving problems, being creative, chatting, making friends, falling in love, smelling flowers and herbs, eating great food, exercising, helping to bring about positive change even in small ways, laughter, riding a bike/scooter/horse/unicycle, painting, crayons, massage, feeding the hungry, helping others, finding peace, swimming in the ocean or lakes, climbing a tree, growing food.... And this doesn't cover a 100th of it. Times are hard, so many things are bad, but there's always a lot to live for.
Crayons? Not my cup of tea.
I'll choose riding the horse/unicycle then.
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Making new experiences. I spend time with my friends and try to build communities with interesting people to help deal with whatever the future will throw at us. Everytime I think I've got something figured out, another perspective pops up to consider. I'm plenty worried about the future, but life has certainly never been that interesting for me.
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Feels like kicking the can down the road. I would not want to be a kid growing up in this world seeing what it has become, and the dire fucking future ahead.
That's silly. What's the alternative? Give up on humanity? There's no other team to join. This is it.
I'm afraid for the future too, but humanity has been through worse than whatever my kids will experience.
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Ignoring reality?
Compartmentalizing reality more like. It does no good to live in existential dread constantly, but when bad things are coming, it's also good to be aware of them. Switching in and out of that compartment is a skill developed over long stents of stress, but it's a good skill to have.
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Outdoors, if you live in a place with natural beauty. Getting out every day and walking to my local rose garden (it was very close, I was lucky) during the pan did wonders for my keeping it together.
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Mine are rapidly wearing off.
I know what'd happen if I try to kms. I'd walk up the the bridge, look down, then get scared of the heights and be a coward and decide to go home.
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Outdoors, if you live in a place with natural beauty. Getting out every day and walking to my local rose garden (it was very close, I was lucky) during the pan did wonders for my keeping it together.
I'm extremely upset seeing our ecosystems collapse. It's worse than almost anyone realizes. If you're middle-aged and think on it, you'll remember a very different world.
Having said that, I'm in the woods and waters all the time and usually see things that surprise me! Despite being a bit polluted, there were loads of baby fish at the boat ramp last weekend, even with all the boats coming and going.
Giant stick insect I've never seen before.
New pitcher plant I've never seen!
Baby snake, and again, a new one on me.
New spider. That camo and flat body freak me out! They could be on ANY tree!
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Outdoors, if you live in a place with natural beauty. Getting out every day and walking to my local rose garden (it was very close, I was lucky) during the pan did wonders for my keeping it together.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]My city's premier is destroying a beautiful public green space to build a private mega spa and parking lot for himself and his cronies, so that's fun
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Finding out what's next.
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I'm extremely upset seeing our ecosystems collapse. It's worse than almost anyone realizes. If you're middle-aged and think on it, you'll remember a very different world.
Having said that, I'm in the woods and waters all the time and usually see things that surprise me! Despite being a bit polluted, there were loads of baby fish at the boat ramp last weekend, even with all the boats coming and going.
Giant stick insect I've never seen before.
New pitcher plant I've never seen!
Baby snake, and again, a new one on me.
New spider. That camo and flat body freak me out! They could be on ANY tree!
I remember road trips when I was a child. The windshield would be covered with splattered bugs. That doesn't happen anymore.
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Mine's already gone, and I failed to do the thing you said. OPs question cuts really fucking deep.
You haven't failed until you quit.
Failure is not an option.
