iamnormal

Please list 10 things/reasons you find life worth living.

diddagirl

Great question. Here is my list in no particular order....

1. My mom, brother and sister
2. My friends
3. Laughing
4. Making some one else laugh
5. Buying gifts for the people I love
6. Ice Cream
7. My kitties and puppy
8. Earning money through my hard work
9. My boyfriend
10. The future- and its endless possibilities

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"Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived long in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."
-Matthew Arnold

:::OshnSoul:::

1. Life itself in its pure and perfect essence & how it works in mysterious and magnificent ways
2. My son
3. My stepdaughter
4. My husband
5. My dreams & goals
6. Experience
7. My family
8. Exploring nature
9. Friends
10. Friends the tv show

jay-g

KellyC

1. Family
2. To learn (what ever intrigues me, TFP is very intriguing )
3. Sport i.e soccer, snowboarding and tennis.
4. Helping others
5. Cooking
6. Ninja Gaiden
7. Dance Dance Revolution, BEST GAME EVER!!
8. The constant bickering between me and my lilttle bro.
9. My friends
10. Pr0n!!

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Him: Ok, I have to ask, what do you believe?
Me: Shit happens.

Mephisto2

1) My wife
2) My family (father, mother, brothers etc)
3) Children (they are our future and are good)
4) Sex
5) My friends
6) Art (from Michaelangelo to Monet, from Jean Michel Basquiat to Hogarth)
7) A good book (Catch 22, LA Confidential, The Making of the Atomic Bomb are probably three of my favourite)
8) Learning (As my mother used to tell me "Knowledge is its own reward")
9) Being inspired by others (Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Mother Theresa etc)
10) Laughter


Mr Mephisto

CinnamonGirl

1. my family
2. my husband
3. waking up early on a Saturday morning, realizing you don't have to get up, and cuddling under the cover for a few hours
4. staying up all night just to watch the sun rise
5. hearing a song that could have been written about you
6. hearing a song that WAS written about you
7. that mellow, happy feeling you get on Christmas Day, after all the presents are opened, kids are playing, and everyone's in a great mood
8. Really. Good. Sex.
9. silly conversations with friends, deep conversations with friends...okay, friends in general
10. a cool night, a bonfire, and an acoustic guitar.

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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Journeyman

1. Family, of which will always be.
2. Friends, which are like family, but I chose them, which is good, and may not always be, which is bad.
3. Music that invokes actual emotion, and I don't know how.
4. Movies that sucker my brain into thinking I'm the main character in a way, which is awsome.
5. Any and all great stories (movie trilogies, books, oral histories, myths, etc).
6. Women.
7. A sense of loyalty to things I care about enough to be loyal to.
8. A goal in life.
9. Children, before they grow old enough to be brats.
10. Cultural heritage.

kurty[B]

1. family and friends
2. seeing new beautiful things
3. taking a moment to stop whatever I'm doing and simply watch the sunrise, or sunset
4. accomplishing a goal
5. when someone smiles back
6. hugs (don't get nearly enough)
7. snowboarding, hiking, biking, general outdoor adventures
8. having stories to tell (bad times often have the best stories when you look back down the road)
9. life itself
10. watching snow/rainfall, and thunderstorms - along with that, power outages

Stare At The Sun

1. Love, its the best feeling ever.
2. Family and friends
3. Feeling the "rush" from adrenaline.
4. Sex
5. Movies
6. The feeling of driving on a summer day with your windows down.
7. Music
8. Talking about the good ol' days
9. Seeing or doing something for the first time
10. Laughing

It's hard to put an order on this, however, really, i enjoy life for what it is, I, like everyone else deal w/ depression from time to time, but I always look for brighter times and better times.

bundy

01. Jazz
02. Girls
03. Travel
04. Mountains
05. Laughing
06. Crying
07. People
08. Smiling
09. Opera
10. Wine

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Ohayo!!!

MSD

Better than the alternative

Haven't gotten everything done yet

Family (most of the time)

Music, concerts, and the euphoric rush that comes from diving off of a stage into a crowd of people who will clump together and put their hands up to prevent me from busting my ass on the floor

Haven't done anything that will get me remembered

Almost anything could be worse

Knowing that there are people who would miss me if I wasn't here

The wonderful feeling of confusing people who expect me to fail in life and pissing off those who want me to fail

Knowing that I can do more than I have done and be better than I am

Untitled

1) The people I love and who love me
2) Anticipation
3) Laughter
4) Tears
5) Books
6) Music
7) Great conversations you don't want to end
8) New Experiences
9) Goals
10) Snow

WarWagon

Cars
Love
Beer
Sex
Music
Laughter
Dreams
Adrenaline
Proving others wrong
TFP

Homey_V

My girlfriend and the way she makes me smile
My friends
My Family.. Well Most of them
Reading
Sleep (Oh sweet glorious sleep)
Food
Coffee
Fresh Air
Vacations
Nature

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You did what with a duck?

kl0pper

1 my girlfriend
2 my family
3 music
4 creativity
5 learning, growing
6 chocolate milk
7 sex
8 laughing
9 nature
10 possibility

SabrinaFair

1) Love
2) Sex
3) Anticipation
4) Dreams
5) Laughter
6) Food and drink
7) Rain
8) Friendship
9) Family
10) Warm summer nights

Wow...it's really hard to name just ten things. What an uplifting excercise!

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"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
-Desiderata

onetime2

Beyond the first 3, no particular order...

1/ My Fiancee
2/ Family
3/ Intellectual Curiosity
4/ My ability to create
5/ Scuba Diving
6/ Challenges
7/ Sex
8/ Friends
9/ Exploration
10/ Change

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Strive to be more curious than ignorant.

sillygirl

My wonderful boyfriend
Love
Learning
Friends that I trust with my life, I can be silly or serious, laugh or cry. They're still there for me
Family (even though they're all nuts!)
Life
Proving myself to be stronger than anyone ever expected
Experience
Happiness
I want to have a good marriage and children someday

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Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly-Rose Franken
....absence makes me miss him more...

slimshaydee

my list extends alot further than 10, I'm just grateful I was given a chance to live in the first place.

Strange Famous

1 - fear of death
2 - the small moments of beauty in amongst all the grey
3 - because, since I am here, leaving would hurt my family I suppose
4 - I cant think of much else

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

Strange Famous

1) Love

No one really loves me and I dont really love anyone that much

2) Sex

I havent had any for years

3) Anticipation

usually makes me sad or afraid

4) Dreams

Dreams dont mean anything, and my dreams all reduce me somehow

5) Laughter

Laughter in the dark... it is good to laugh, but it does seem just an opposite reaction to pain, and I see a world with more hurt than joy

6) Food and drink

Makes me fat

7) Rain

Makes me stay indoors

8) Friendship

I dont really have a lot of friends

9) Family

I love them all, but somehow, sometimes I just dont want anyone near me, and I only really started to love them after I left home I think.

10) Warm summer nights

those are nice, but sad, they make me think of my childhood, which is gone.

Just picking someone's list at random and nothing personal to that person at all...

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

CinnamonGirl

No, no....if it's warm, you go out and play in the rain. And if it's cold, you get all comfy & warm and just listen.

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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Kostya

Strange Famous, best answer yet!

I'm in no state to list things worth living for right now.

Rodney

Are we doing an assignment for you? Oh, well.

1) Experience
2) Love
3) One's own growth as a person
4) Death (makes life more dear)
5) Companionship
6) Surprise
7) Beauty, especially when unexpected
8) Helping others; making a difference even in a small way.
9) A justly-deserved rest after a job well done.
10) The sensual pleasures, be they sexual, auditory, gustatory, tactile, or nasal.

StormBerlin

In no particular order:
1- Chewy
2- My family
3- School
4- Job
5- Not knowing what's gonna happen tomorrow.
6- Planning my future
7- Good books
8- Orgasm (especially with the one I love)
9- Friends (in a general sense, not anyone specific)
10- My baby gerbils

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"if anal sex could get a girl pregnant i'd be tits deep in child support" Arcane

iamnormal

I'm just trying to understand why others injoy life wile I don't.

anti fishstick

1. inspiration
2. nature
3. curiosity to learn and grow as a person
4. calling my boyfriend at the end of a long day. Will in general
5. a future
6. a present
7. music
8. good books
9. culture and travel
10. art and creativity

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin

Konichiwaneko

choice is the only reason

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Demiurge

I like to say, as a person without religion. Everything is perspective, nothing is defininit except my very own existance(cogito ergo sum) It's a pretty ziggy life, never knowing exactly why you do it.
Agent Smith wanna knows why, i guess Neo should have replied why not.

SabrinaFair

You picked my list at random.
I'm sorry if you don't agree with the things I value out of life. But, it was *my* list, and I can't help but feel attacked for your response. I'm not having sex either, and I wouldn't say that I have a lot of friends; those are just two things that in my opinion, make *my* life worth living. I'm sorry if I'm being a bit bitchy, but I'm feeling a bit defensive.

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"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
-Desiderata

iamnormal

Would it have been better if he used all the list and had something negitive to say about all the answers?
I'm sure he could because I know where he is comeing from.

Yakk

1> 1. From it and it's successors you can build a castle in the sky, beautiful beyond any mortal's imagination.

2> Other things out there. Like you, but not. You can model them, but you can't be them. And they are in the same situation as you. The other.

3> Mystery. So many problems that I don't know the answer to, from what I will have for lunch tommorrow, to when I will next fall in love. They will never be solved, unless I continue.

4> Cuddles. The simple pleasure of holding and touching someone you care for, the wonder of how such a simple action can mean so much.

5> Connections. Going both ways, towards you and away. Which would be severed if you where gone, causing pain and harm.

6> Experience. Sex, eating a "Jane's Addiction Chocolate Cake", swimming until you entire body is jelly, walking until your feet are fire, touching that which you have never touched before, seeing things as yet unseen.

7> Chance. No matter how things are going, no matter how set things seem, nothing can be predicted, nothing can be known.

8> History. That which has gone before. The pain, the happyness, the fun. It would no longer be made, at least in my pattern, if I was gone.

9> Denial. I will not bow down before the coming of the night. The reaper will not take me quietly into its embrace. I will defeat it, though it comes again tommorrow.

10> The end. If there is something past life, it will happen if I delay it. Death will be there, waiting for me, at the end, so I am in no rush. And, if perchance my fate is life everlasting, my death would be an insult to everyone who has attempted that quest and failed, through no fault of their own.

(I hope you don't mind the puns, I used them to give my list a bit of structure.)

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Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.

BuddyHawks

I made my list before reading the others
in no particular order

family
friends
freedom
love
music
literature
sleeping
the four seasons
technology
beauty

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Watch More TV

Johnny Rotten

Cute girls
Music like The Mars Volta
People like Bill Hicks
Cities like San Francisco
The TFP
Pot
Summer twilight
Sex
Revenge through living well
Beer

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"The idea that money doesn't buy you happiness is a lie put about by the rich, to stop the poor from killing them." -- Michael Caine

Toecutter

My Family
Being healthy
Sleeping in on a weekend
being successful/having success on my own terms
Sharing my knowledge, experience, or skill to help those in need
lending an ear, or shoulder when someone needs it
overcomming a personal challenge or obstacle
Buscuits and Sausage Gravy
That first cup of coffee in the morning
being able to lay my head down at night with a clear conscience

Angel

I'm answering before I read the other responses...

1- My son
2- My sweetheart
3- My Family
4- My friends...especially Steve
5- Sunsets
6- Backyard Barbecues
7- Up on the mountaintop at night gazing at the stars
8- Having the giggles until you can't breathe
9- Owning my own home...all mine
10-The day my son comes home from afghanistan...THAT is a day worth living for!

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus

xx emo x

1) being completely in love with Jesus Christ (and all things affiliated with Him)
2) having a family that is there for me (100%)
3) knowing that someday i will find somone who is perfect for me (not just wishful thinking)
4) looking up and seeing hope when i fall (and the people who help my up)
5) playing guitar (mostly acoustic, but electric makes me feel just that, electric)
6) working with children (inexplicable rewards are in teaching)
7) reading a spectacular novel (im a sucker for the technical law genre)
8) watching a movie that makes me emote (being nostalgic in general)
9) sleeping in and then waking up smiling (smiling in general)
10) explaining my thoughts (with the explanations in bracets)

life in general is not really worth living, why should it be? but knowing that i could bring a bunch of people along with me to heaven motivates me to be all i can be in Jesus.

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hurting people hurt people.

Fishin Musician

Ten things great about life…

1. My wife and kids
2. The look on my children’s faces as they walk into the living room on Christmas morning (gets me every year)
3. Having a Bass nail a hula popper on a cool June morning.
4. Cranking up my Fender Super Reverb and jamming on my Explorer.
5. The smell of the mountains after a good rain in eastern Kentucky (been awhile)
6. Thunderstorms
7. A long conservation with a friend of mine
8. Memories of my Dad
9. Music
10. Sex

chimbleysweep

1. music - listening
2. music - playing [guitar]
3. soda and beer
4. inline skating
5. books
6. abstract, logical, playgrounds. [mathematics, computer science algorithms, and programming]
7. fresh air and sometimes the sun
8. the 'great thinkers' from the past.
9. no-bullshit people. i haven't met many but there's always hope.
10. ???