What is the point of living?
What is it that makes slogging through it all worthwhile?

Is there a point to me posting in this forum; a real point?
Is there a point to liking CloudxAeris?
Is there a point to playing FFVII when you have a limited lifespan and can't take it with you?

No, but it's nice. It's fun. It's worth there being no real point to it. And in my opinion, that goes for a lot of other things too.

What makes life worthwhile to me is the sensation of being alive. I don't have a particularly fast-paced life and I'm not one of those people obsessed with living in the moment and not wasting a single second...but I enjoy life a great deal, that I can't ever imagine wanting it to end (except if I were in a great deal of pain, I guess). Being alive is something I appreciate a lot.

There are times when I've felt really disturbed and troubled and wanted to die (but hey, it happens to everyone, especially people who haven't hit 20 yet) and there are times when I've been under a lot of stress and thought that I'd rather die than cope...but I don't think I could really end my life, because even when things are bad, there are a lot of other, smaller, things that make life a very addictive pleasure for me. I'm far too attatched to life. It's a sort of materialism, I suppose. I enjoy my feelings - and I'm not talking about any phenomenal emotions, just the "mediocre" feelings - and I enjoy being around to experience them I like being able to breathe, to think, to walk around just being myself. It's just...really, really great. ^_^

It doesn't really bother me that there may not be a 'point' to living. Being alive feels worth it.

In life we waste years waiting for something that is usually over in a matter of days, hours or even minutes. Is it all worth it? Who knows...I try not to think too deeply about life itself or I would propably jump off my balcony. I have enough problems with more superficial matters as it is, so bothering myself with something such as this would drive me crazy. :unsure:

it's too late for me I think. . . .

I know Nietzsche said "Joy is reason in itself for living," and I'm sure that's how many people look at it.

But personally, I find it difficult to get up everyday knowing where I'm going, that it only leads to some other pointless activity, which further leads to something else until I die. It's hard dealing with existential crises.

At the moment I seem to be living for the pivotal points in one's life, those specific moments oh high emotion and joy at a higher level than ordinary. But they don't come around very often...

What the...? DQ, are you thinking about killing yourself? What about Sefie!? What about Cleris!? What about life!? DON'T DO IT!
Now, let me see, what are my reasons for living?
Oh yes, God.
My family.
My friends.
My pets.
The world.
I know I have a destiny.
My obsessions.

I know I might sound flowery to you all but I know that there's something to live for. There's something worth fighting for. There's a reason I was born. I am no accident, I am no mistake, I am not a product of chance. I am a person with a destiny. And so is everyone else.

sefie is the reason. . . .
but don't worry, i doubt i'll ever have the guts to kill myself

why, what she said or he said....

God. I say ME not him
My family.
My friends.
My pets.
The world.
I know I have a destiny.
My obsessions.
MY DREAMS


dont kill your selfs, if u think about dont...
everyone has problams, some wostt them others

it will get better..but dont wast ur life and kill urself

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*Bursts out laughing*

Geeze I must have hit rock bottom,
Your petty god snipe annoys me, even though I think gods are silly, and to be pitied by the likes of you, I might die from the shame
Anyway, didn't I just say I'm unlikely to build up the nerve?
Though this scratch on my finger really irratates me

Life's so short anyway, I could die tomorrow, or the next day, I don't think I have a good diet, I am rather worried about my poor heart, probaly choked with cholesterherol

DQ, I just wanted to say that I had no idea (until recently) that you were genuinely upset about things - I thought your question was just hypothetical. I'm really sorry that my answer was so insensitive and tactless. The last thing I ever want to hear when I'm feeling like shit is someone else saying how great life is - I'm so sorry if I accidentally rubbed it in. :(

It's okay hyper, I was not affected by your response.

Hey, DQ... I've been where you are, and it's not fun. People can give you advice, but you really need to find your own answers.

Someone may say that life's worth living because it's beautiful to smell the roses each morning. But that may not mean a whole helluva lot to you if you hate mornings and roses make you sneeze. :lol:

You just need to ask yourself what you enjoy doing. What makes it worthwhile for you? What sports do you like? What games do you like? What movies do you like?

What would like to learn? Would you like to learn to speak another language? Would you like to learn how to skydive? Would you like to learn how to paint watercolors? Would you like to learn how to fly a plane? What have you always wanted to know how to do?

If you had a million dollars, what would you buy with it? Would you go on vacation, would you buy a car, would you buy a mansion? What would you do?

If you can answer those things, then maybe you can figure out what makes living worthwhile for you. That's the most important question for you right now, and it's something we can't answer for you.

I wanted to end it, I lost the most important thing to me
it may sound silly and emotional, but my grief led way to madness, I was freaking gone.

I was just one step away from ending it, but that's not what I find upsetting now.
In my grief I was a total bastard, though in some ways I could say it wasn't something I could control, I acted in such a cruel fashion, it wasn't right. . . .

I'm going to do my best to make things right with the one I wronged, if I can, but just to stop unduly troubling you all here on the forum, which none of you deserve, you don't have to worry about me, I'm not okay, but it's not at such an extreme anymore

:)

Hey, DQ. We understand. If you ever need someone to listen, we're glad to do it. :huggle:

You just need to ask yourself what you enjoy doing.

You know the answers to life almost always seem to come back to hedonism.

:huggle:

Many times, I've wondered at your gift of life
I'm in that place once again
I'm in that place once again

Hm...as long as we've established there is not going to be a suicide attempt, the only thing I can think to say is that I have been to the point to wish for death before. The reason I am still here is that I have decided to live in order to try and make things better. Worth a shot, and if I don't succeed, at least I tried, no?

Not to mention...technically, I can't afford to die...no one in my family has enough to pay for a funeral, so...>.>;

Not to mention...technically, I can't afford to die...no one in my family has enough to pay for a funeral, so...>.>;

Ah well...that's rather...ah...you know I'm sure....ah... *runs*

:P

Hey Inu, any reason not to die's a good one!*Pokes*

And DQ, I'm very glad you're feeling better. Hope to talk to you soon

"~~To die can be so easy. but to actually keep living is hard.
But living is worth it, do you want to give up your only chance?~~"