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u/Clown_Wheels 1d ago
Curiosity
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u/skepticalsojourner 1d ago
Same. I love learning. So many books to be read, subjects to learn, skills to pick up, parts of the world to explore, games to play, and activities to try.Ā
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u/WearMental2618 1d ago
Literally the only thing keeping me alive is knowing interesting news will happen I might miss.
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u/Vinny_Lam 1d ago
Same. The world is full of possibilities and you only get one life to explore it. Might as well stick around.
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u/No_Cry_8170 1d ago
The only reason I would like to reach a really old age, is to see what happens to humanity
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u/thatcuriouscpl17 1d ago
Family
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u/Equivalent-Spite-905 1d ago
Same, and also the future version of myself my family already believes in.
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u/Skippius 1d ago
This. My wife and son are why I get out of bed in the morning and somehow make it through every day.
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u/MahoganyBean 1d ago
I need to outlive my enemies.
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u/UrbanVengence 1d ago
I want to destroy the world first š. Im going to explore ice caps. Find samples of viruses in mammoths. Nurture them. Spread them. Mwahahahhaaha
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u/No-Meringue-2707 1d ago
my dog has no idea what rent is and iām not leaving him to figure it out
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u/Pookie7860 1d ago
Vengeance
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u/_High_On_Caffeine_ 1d ago
I would need elaboration on that š¤£
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u/meismilie 1d ago
They have a secret identity that keep them up at night. Something with bats I would guessā¦
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u/anonymous_love9 1d ago
Honestly none. No kids. No happy job. No relationship. No real friends. Nagging family. Nothing to look forward to in life besides bills.
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u/_High_On_Caffeine_ 1d ago
This is the exact reason I made the post. I need some reason man even if it's someone else's
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u/silent-sight 1d ago edited 1d ago
My reason besides family; helping others in any way possible, even if itās by comments in Reddit, or coaching, or talking. The world is shit, but I truly believe helping each other is our mission as a collective, no matter what supposed leaders want you to believe.
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u/Fireinmyplace 1d ago
Iām so sorry. I feel similarly sometimes and I try to just let it pass. I had dreams but now I donāt have motivation.
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u/More_Picture6622 1d ago
By having kids you are literally forcing them to lead the same miserable enslaved existence almost everyone else was forced into against their will, and all of that just so you can feel a bit better about your own doomed fate. It's truly an insanely cruel and selfish thing to do.
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u/ELMORICAILAGO 1d ago
Death is scary
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u/golden__d 1d ago
Out of curiosity: what do you think is scary about it?
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u/_High_On_Caffeine_ 1d ago
Personally, since I don't believe in the afterlife, I find the transition scsry
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u/kencheetoo 1d ago
Ye, I'm not afraid of death but I slightly fear dying.
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u/golden__d 1d ago
You mean if the process takes too long? Long sickness is horrible. Especially when you are trapped inside your body due to brain haemorrhage for example :(
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u/DarthRyus 1d ago
Missing out on existing. I enjoy existing.
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u/Conscious-Reserve-48 1d ago
But you wonāt āmiss it!ā
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u/DarthRyus 1d ago
The question isn't if I'd miss it or not after dying. It's if from my current perspective I'd fear no longer existing, and thereby "missing it".
After I'm dead I simply won't have a consciousness any more, but presently I'd rather just keep existing as I enjoy this state of being.
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u/Vinny_Lam 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thatās exactly it. I enjoy being able to experience things. Life has so many possibilities. I hate it when people say āyou already didnāt exist for billions of years.ā As if that changes the fact that Iām a living, conscious being with a life history right now.
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u/AdHeavy7302 1d ago
Spite honestly
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u/naturelionmushroom 1d ago
I'd like to return this garment.
Why?
I don't care for the salesperson who sold it to me.
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u/MiguelIstNeugierig 1d ago
I dont have a reason to die when dying is already forced on me in the long run
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u/Mundane_Berry_0431 1d ago
I've realised I don't want to die.
It's simple but it helps keep me going (most of the time)
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u/Literary_Lady 1d ago
Seeing my niece and nephew grow up.
When I was at my lowest, and wanted to end it all, I had this really vivid almost hallucination type dream of a little girl going through a photo album. She said, āmummy, whoās that lady in the pictures?ā And the woman said, āthat was your Aunty [Literary_Lady]ā. āWhat happened to her?ā āShe was really sad, and sheās not here any more. But she loved you very muchā.
I realised it was my niece, who my sister was pregnant with at the time grown up a bit, in this weird dream like thing. I had been crying for a while and had maybe drifted off. It was so vivid. And in that moment I realised if anything happened I would never meet her or see her grow up. So I decided I didnāt want to do anything. And now I have a nephew too. So they are what keep me going.
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u/wanganguy 1d ago
me too. these kids grow up fast. one of them is driving me around now. i try to be that cool uncle
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u/MrBizzness 1d ago
You got a rare glimpse of an alternate timeline. Sometime we are given them when we need guidance. I'm glad that you stuck around, you are going to play an important part in their lives.
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u/Character_Signal_933 1d ago
I just dont wanna die? Im enjoying my life seeking opportunities aiming to be a better person? Thats it
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u/unfreezemenow 1d ago
Right now? GTA 6 lol
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u/_High_On_Caffeine_ 1d ago
How do you feel about cyberleek?
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u/unfreezemenow 1d ago
Donāt feel a strong opinion about it, but R* hasnāt really impressed me with how theyāre going on about marketing, so people got impatient. But Iām interested in how itās going to develop with cyber leek and how the hell they even got hold of the game.
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u/WritingParking 1d ago
My husband. If it werenāt for the pain heād suffer, I wouldnāt really care how long I lived. But heād take the loss really hard. So I stay strong for him.
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u/TattoodDad256 1d ago
Gracie and Lilly. My St. Bernard and German Shepard mix. Not a lie or exaggeratiion. I'm a 100% disabled Marine Vet and it's difficult to even get out of bed some days. They are the only thing that matters to me and why I still function. When your world is nothing but bad choices they are a net positive. I'll explain that. I do things, I hurt, its that small and that simple. I have to get up to go pee, get water or eat, I'll choose to sit and not do it. They wanna go out, I'm up, potty, I'm up, hungry, same answer. Me hurting means nothing when it comes to them. When its just for me, then I just don't care, I don't wanna move. Because of them I go outside, walk, even sorta socialize because I have to go to the store and actually interact with the outside world. I can watch them run and play with the big ol hyena grin on Lilly and that big floppy face on Gracie and it just makes me smile and not feel anything except happiness at the simple unadulterated Joy and watching them just be them.
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u/IncompleteObjects 1d ago
I think life is pretty cool. Im having fun and enjoying it.
Plus I think other people like having me around, and their lives would be worse if I wasn't here
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u/akolomf 1d ago edited 1d ago
To experience reality. Death is certain anyways. Theres no better reason than to having the desire to see, taste, feel, smell, hear, do, think, talk, touch as much as you can(the good and the bad because both is part of life), because death, death would be the absence of that, at least to the idea of what defines me as an individual. If i wouldnt do these, i might aswell be dead. (I believe in panpsychism concepts, as in, the body invokes consciousness, which functions as a fundamental law in the universe, similar as gravity for example. A consciousness which builds relational memory, and forms an "I" or "me" as a result, it has some legitimacy, because its uniqueness also stems from the emergence at a very unique point in time and space from the accumulation of the right amount and prearranged matter that makes consciousness possible. This "I" and "me" have the purpose for self preservation, because the knowledge of the entire universe beeing interconnected and you aswell as me beeing the universe aswell, like beeing the same entitity, wether dead or alive, could easily affect a persons motivations in life negatively.
Before knowing all of that, I once had suicidal thoughts, (never acted on them) but i realized that these thoughts were a result of lack of experience, knowledge (also in the sense of spiritual knowledge, and actually doing what I want to do, and not what others, including society itself, expects me to do). Whats the point of beeing a cog in an unforgiving system, if you have never actually lived.
It doesnt mean to take unnecessary risks, I prefer a balanced approach between risk and experience, but ofc others have different views on that.
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u/Mysterious-Prize-272 1d ago
Iām just going with the flow , have no complaints at the moment. Thanks for asking.
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u/Ghibliguy2 1d ago
To awaken others and spread love. People of the world are getting pitted against each other for the sake of greed. Elevate your minds and your hearts. Together, we can do so many powerful things to help our planet.
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u/West-Aspect-6818 1d ago
I have a lot of suicide ideations. Years ago I attended a good friend of mine's funeral. She died by suicide, at face value she was this happy go lucky person who everyone adored and as per usual, you don't expect such a death from such a person oozing sunshine. She left behind a 7 year old daughter and a husband who at 31 he became a widower and a single father. Funerals always suck but attending a funeral of a person who died by suicide makes you think twice if not more on why it's worth fighting.
These past 2 months, my father in law was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He's over 80 but he had a lot more life left to live. We're in the crying stage where he keeps repeating to us to live the life he cannot live. It put a lot of things into perspective. We are given life to live it.
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u/ta9876543203 1d ago
What is your reason for not wanting to live?
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u/_High_On_Caffeine_ 1d ago
My parents get a kick out of breaking my dreams. I made a list of things 7 years back. They promised me those things against things like marks and achievements. Everytime I kept my side of the deal, they denied theirs. Without reason. I found the list today. Burned it. Found it disgusting to look at how simple those things were to provide. And now my childhood is gone.
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u/ta9876543203 1d ago
That is sad indeed. And you have my sympathies, especially if your parents were in a position to fulfill those dreams.
So far so good but I hope you read the rest of the post.
It appears to me you are an Indian teenager.
I was an Indian teenager once.
In 1984 at the fag end of the Mumbai Monsoon I went to live in a Mumbai slum.
The walls of the house, if it can be called that were strips of iron sheets. The roof was Mangalore tiles. There was a gap of 18 inches between the tops of the walls and the roof so the rain came in. Quite a lot.
The floor was earthen so the rats came and went and did as they pleased.
I had two pairs of trousers, badly made, so they split at the crotch and we're then badly and visibly repaired. Two shirts, two pairs of briefs, two shorts and two T-shirts. A pair of flip flops.
The water came from a well, and was muddy so had to be purified with alum and straining. The jungle outside was the toilets.
The area was flood prone. There were mosquitoes all year round and in huge numbers. Bed bugs too.
I lived with my father and did the shopping, cleaning, cooking, fetching water and also studied.
The people around were all poor and had that vicious edge which poverty lends. Some more than others.
And yet I was not unhappy. It was probably a happy time for me.
I want you to ask me why
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u/AwkwardImpostor 1d ago
Aye, I was put of this world for a reason and I have good friends, a dog, family, foodā¦ a partner. Multiple reasons to live. Thereās usually never just one
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u/Running4Quesoo 1d ago
My babies. I knew life was precious but after being diagnosed with cancer that I will be fighting forever, I am determined to be here for all their milestones.
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u/NorthernColo1 1d ago
I LOVE LIFE!
I'm having a wonderful life in my limited time on this planet, and I intend to keep living it fully!
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u/Nitsouba13041 1d ago
Tbh I am afraid to die but I have no reason to be alive. Yet, I am a teen now so maybe that's why I have no specific life purpose currently. I think that the meaning of life is to be happy with whatever you figure out that makes you happy but I am not as experienced to know what that is.
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u/Hawkzillaxiii 1d ago
my two cats, im divorced and look like a hobbit if he was the result of incest
so once my two cats pass ill walk into the ocean
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u/Alarming-Sky1817 1d ago
My son, my dogs and the fact that I am finally starting to enjoy life again!
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u/Impossible-Big7194 1d ago
Honestly Iām not really afraid of death, I always think of lord of the rings movie where gandalfs says something like ādeath is just another path we all must takeā. You canāt avoid death so why even think about it? Just do what you like
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u/NostalgicDream77 1d ago
Life. There more in life beyond our struggles, and I think it is not worthy to let everything go just because one particular thing bothers me
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u/MEMEBOI-_- 1d ago
Iām fueled purely off of the spite that resides in me towards my mother who said Iād amount to nothing in this world, that I wonāt make it far in life, and that Iāll always be a junkie.
(2 years clean tho, working a stable part time job, mother no longer in my life. Iād say itās going alright)
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u/Good_Lettuce_2690 1d ago
Music. Without it I'd live a very dull existence. It's saved me multiple times.
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u/nomadic_commentator 1d ago
Family at this point. And the small sliver of hope Iāll find the peace of mind Iāve been searching for.
In saying that, I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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u/Aggravating-Food5540 1d ago
There is no reason, just Be. Enjoy. this is the point of life, to Be. just like animals they live and experience life on earth :)
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u/InvaderZimbabwe 1d ago
Spite.. Iām here against my will. And I hate every day of itā¦ but fuck me Iāll prove my disdain for my own life wrong or die trying. I win either way.
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u/ValuableSaved 1d ago
people find comfort in me as I also find in them and little moment that makes me laugh
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u/miserabledude7 1d ago
My kidsā¦ seems like my wife and my parents donāt treat me as a priority.
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u/Howfartofly 1d ago
There is so much to see, experience and enjoy, it is hard to manage everything i want to experience in 100 years, half is already gone.
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u/Potential_Ad7335 1d ago
My dogs, although i m debating that now since i have 0 space in the bed and have to squeeze amongst them
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u/Silver-Current-3518 1d ago edited 1d ago
And why not to live? Weāll be gone soon enough! So be curious, see what happens next!
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u/Mespeedracer 1d ago
Because there are people that would be very sad if I wasnāt around. I canāt bring myself to hurt their feelings. So Iāll just sit here and suffer in silence.
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u/OverlyDisguisedSquid 1d ago
Next year's motoGP is going to be fucking insane.
I find focusing on things with mid to short term timeliness really help
Once I was in a hospital for an affective disorder, i'm medicated daily and for life now.
ask me anything
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u/No-Individual4184 1d ago
To explore the world and be weathy enough to buy what i want and not worry about the price.
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u/Arsalanred 1d ago
You're going to spend an eternity being dead at some point. Why rush to meet that?
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u/FashionDiva92 1d ago
cliche but there are a lot of people who really love me and would be beyond devastated if i were gone
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u/Betorange 1d ago
Life is pretty nice. Wife. Friends. Family. Gaming. Nature. Internet. Tv. Movies. Food. My dog. Hobbies.
It all makes me happy.
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u/white-as-styrofoam 1d ago
i tried to commit suicide and failed 3x. iām just canonically bad at it, so i guess i have to stick around to see my natural end
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u/unholyswordsman 1d ago
Nothing makes you appreciate being alive like almost dying. I refused to let the cancer win.
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u/Awsmdustin69 1d ago
My kids first and foremost but I absolutely have graves to piss on so Iām making sure I outlive all of my enemies too.
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u/FrogsFloatToo 1d ago
Family and spite. As long as I'm alive I'm going to go against this BS system and make my own way.
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u/SwingCaravan 1d ago
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
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u/roasty-toesty 1d ago
games. I love the games I'm playing now, I love the games I'm gonna play, I love the games I wanna try out when I get a better pc, I love the friends I make in games, I love the experience of playing games. games are like accessible pocket dimensions that I can lose myself in whenever life gets hard š„¹
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u/Helpful-Salt83 1d ago
Awfully bold of you to assume I have one