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Why should I continue to live?
What constitutes a reason for living?
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Sure beats dying.
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Curiosity. That's always been a good reason for me. Good enough to keep me alive, anyway. I can't just end it without having a clue as to how it may turn out. Not that I care much, but I just can't help it. Ambition, fear of hurting others with my greed, cowardice, the smallest bit of commitment to life..which brings me right back to curiosity. Perhaps life is wasted on the living after all, considering how uninterested an undeserving some of us can be..
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You can change your future, even if your present is complete trash. Death is pretty much the biggest thing that you cannot undo or make right in some fashion. Take for example:
An alcoholic decides to become clean-and-sober one evening after a drunken rampage. During this, he beats up a girl he knows in a bar. The next day he begins to attend AA meetings and, although the addiction is hard to overcome and he feels HORRIBLE going without alcohol for a few days, he sees a light in the end. During his "12-step" program he is instructed to go back and to try to right his wrongs--especially about the need to apologize to people he has negatively affected. He goes back and apologizes to the girl he hurt that one night and she accepts it. He becomes sober and leads a happier life because he is then able to fulfill some of his life-long goals.
Even if you did something terrible, things CAN get better if you try. If you've killed someone, you can repent and start your life anew, only it would be, most likely, in a different setting. You can teach people and they can learn from your mistakes. You can show people what NOT to do, and who NOT to be. You are CONSTANTLY a role model, whether you want to believe that or not.
You never know what will be in you future.
Life is really what you make of it. If you go through life saying, "This isn't good! This isn't good! This isn't good!" then your life isn't going to be good. You subconsciously tell your mind not to try hard enough because it will be bad anyway.
Live each day like you just found out you have 2 weeks to live. Apologize to the people you need to apologize to. Be kind and friendly so people treat you nicely. Smile--what's the use of frowning anyway? Look for the bright side of things. Help others while you have the time (volunteering your time)!
You don't have to have sex, do drugs, experiment, or become a world-famous rock star to have a decent life. There will ALWAYS be hardships. There will ALWAYS be times that you go, "Wow, am I REALLY that stupid?!" and there will be times that you'll say, "Please, give me one more day like this. It was beautiful. It was perfect. This is what I wish EVERY day was like!"
Look at both sides of the picture. You see that it's going to be raining tomorrow and you go, "Darn! I am so upset! I wanted to do my hair up and wear this one outfit but if it rains I can't! Stupid rain!" but the rain does so much good. It helps to give you nourishment. The sky is left with beautiful rainbows.
You say, "I embarrassed myself SO BAD today in front of EVERYONE! I HATE THIS!" but you taught people a lesson on what not to do. You showed people you were human and that it's okay to make mistakes. In time it will be forgotten or you'll see it as just a silly moment, but people get so stuck on the present that they can't see past it.
Relax and change your future.
I also recommend volunteering your extra time to those who could really use it.
You need to make more of your life. By giving to others, you are creating your sense of worth. You will soon realize that YOU DO make a difference and that people appreciate and care about you. You will realize that when you have to skip a volunteer day for a doctor's appointment that many of the people you have been helping will ask what happened to you--Ah-hah, there's your sense of belonging! You will begin to realize that being involved with the care of others can be very fulfilling spiritually.
The people who surround you create your sense of belonging though. Those people help you to see yourself as useful. Those people are the ones that can show care back for you. Without those people, you aren't anything anymore.
Spend time at soup kitchens helping the hungry, volunteer at shelters, visit the elderly in homes so they're not as lonely (not everyone has visitors and just about everyone has neat stories to tell), read Bible passages to younger children, volunteer at local animal shelters, donate your time to what needs you, and do whatever you can with that time. You may even consider doing random acts of kindness:
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Keep looking to the future with your head on straight. Don't expect the world of yourself. You're just human like the rest of us and you just need to learn things you don't know just yet.
Learn and go on with life.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask me! :)
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The thing that keeps me alive is the will of the fact that life gets better :) If it seems as bad as it can get, it can only get better. Plus the fact that you can do so much with your life! There are so many options for everything! Sorry to sound so optimistic and cliche, but anything is possible ha ha. I find life fun, full of interesting twists. It's like a video game kinda :)
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being alive is a reason for living. your lucky enough to be alive, so why waste the precious gift of life. you could potentially do so much with your life.
also even if you don't think so, someone cares about you, and if you aren't around, they will be heartbroken.
other reasons, love, curiosity, random chance, changing one itsy-bitsy piece of the world for the better
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