What keeps you going everyday?

Despite the harshness of reality, what motivates you?

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34 Comments

Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 312d

I've barely lived my life and I'm around half way through. There's still too much for me to do and see. And people for me meet, my people now that I've got a better handle on who I am.

And not even all big clichรฉ things like travel and love and financial stability and shit. But there's also still music to listen to, movies and series to watch, games to play, books and comics to read.

Also, as a Sonic the Hedgehog child and Philip K. Dick and punk rock teen, days like these light a fire in me. It's probably morbid but it kinda feels like I was born for days like these, which gives a sense of purpose and darker reason to exist.

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 312d

Spite

njm1314@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 312d

Habit

adhd_traco@piefed.social · 6 pts · 312d

Gonna die eventually anyway, so might as well make the most of the time I have.

droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d

Store-brand iced coffee and lofi girl

MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al · 6 pts · 312d

Hatred and confusion.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 312d

Oh, "go" is my default state. It's stopping me that's a challenge.

etherphon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d (3 replies)

Music and drugs mostly, along with the hokey knowledge we are all star stuff and we are the universe experiencing itself.

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Same ๐Ÿ’œ Plus streaming shows and cats

etherphon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Cat would have made the list a few years ago, sadly mine passed and I haven't had to heart to get another yet, good choices :)

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d

I understand completely. None of the cats I've had since Squeaky will ever take his place. He was my soulcat ๐Ÿ’œ

You too ๐Ÿ’œ

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 312d (1 reply)

https://www.beyondallreason.info/ <-- robots blowing each other up in huge battles

Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 312d

I watched on youtube the guy who records the mega battles
Absolutely amazing to watch and probably amazing to play (but i have to much unfinished projects that need my time...)

chickenf622@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 312d

Taking care of my cats and still existing to spite all the evil that would rather have me dead.

NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 312d

Taking care of my cat and doing my best to avoid the news channel.

redlemace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d

Family and hobbies

Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d (1 reply)

I trained my brain to be a happier person that brings joy to others so i get positivity back
But today horrors within my comprehension kept invading my daydreams so i listened to some happy music (for me thats mostly "jumpy" 16? bit music and absolutly no voice) to change my mindset to return to happy

But i wont claim i have some harsh life as i am a white european in europe with no need to check my balance before getting groceries
I just have selfmade? anxiety :'D

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d

Just bc you're doing ok with physical things doesn't mean the anxiety doesn't exist. Don't feel survivor's guilt or something like that over having material things everyone should have at a bare minimum, please enjoy them. I hope your anxiety eases soon ๐Ÿ’œ

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 311d
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mintiefresh@piefed.social · 5 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Family.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 311d

Kmmon! Let's go to olive garden!

Widdershins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 312d (1 reply)

The worst people in the world right now are older than I am so if I keep going I will get to live to see the day they die. Sure, I won't be around 100 years from now to see cryogenics fail and some janitor scraping elon muck out of a cryopod but I do wake up every day hopeful that one of them made their last headline.

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 312d

One of them? C'mon, you can dream bigger. Even a dozen's easy enough to rub a random lamp for.

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 312d (1 reply)

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself and do the world a favor and despite wishes haven't yet dropped dead.

Oberyn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 312d

Same tee bee haitch

Mac@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 312d

Lack of alternatives.

nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 312d

Stubbornness

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 312d

Obligation, mostly

dotslashme@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 312d (1 reply)

My family. Without me getting up, putting myself through each day, they would have a much tougher situation.

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 312d

Don't forget: laying out one's coat over a mud puddle for others implies you take it off first. ๐Ÿ˜…

compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 311d

Thereโ€™s still stuff I enjoy doing, like seeing new places and cuddling my wife and dog. And there are too many people who would be happy to see me dead, and I refuse to give them the satisfaction

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 311d

YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN BY RA TO SPREAD THE GLORY OF THE SUN IN THE DARKNESS

SparkleBooty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 312d

My pets, friends, and family

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 310d

I don't want my parents to find my body, that's pretty much it

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d

I focus on my own life, my dad, my other family and friends, work, volunteering. Lifting weights and exercising, gardening, cooking, playing games, watching sports.

A big part of it is having goals to work toward. Losing weight, learning new recipes, learning to be a better gardener. Cleaning up the house, making household repairs, and fixing up some electronics.