Why do you choose to go on?
I'm not looking for advice, I'm looking for variations and narratives.
I will presume that you're asking how to be happy, and not why go on with life.
You likely know that there are no reasons for you `to go on` aside from the ones that your mind, which is prone to deception, provides you with. Objectively, there is no truth to life that is more valuable than, say, the truth that the Christianity preaches. Nobody can tell you what you should do.
You say you look for variations, but I expect you know that not one person here can give you a satisfactory answer. You even say you're not looking for advice, presumably in defense against the usual barrage of condescending answers, but also in part because you know you will not receive any useful suggestions. After all, who would not want to be on the receiving end of some good advice?
There is no correct way to live your life, but there are tips to avoid being unhappy. For one, you can let go of your self-pity. It isn't useful to you or anyone else.
Secondly, you can ask yourself what makes you happy. What makes me happy is seeing the sun set over the ocean, watching a well-performed act, finishing a puzzle -- a great many things. However, what makes my life worth living will probably not be meaningful to you. That is because finding fulfillment is an extremely personal experience. You will just have to man up and figure it out for yourself. Nobody has as much in line for your well-being as you do.
If you can not find meaning in your life, someone else will volunteer to provide it for you. You clearly do not want that.
What primarily motivates me is the feeling of becoming better and learning new things, as well as seeing things I build/work towards take shape.
[...] However, what makes my life worth living will probably not be meaningful to you. That is because finding fulfillment is an extremely personal experience. You will just have to man up and figure it out for yourself. Nobody has as much in line for your well-being as you do.
If you can not find meaning in your life, someone else will volunteer to provide it for you. You clearly do not want that.
I don't think TC made the thread with the intention of taking someone else's meaning for himself. What he's interested in is what other people will provide as their reason just because it is 'extremely personal' and says a lot about their person.
I am working towards goals I set for myself. I always have some objective I have to reach, that keeps me busy. I decide I want something, then pursue it until I get it or exhaust every chance of getting it. But I always have something I want in sight.
What makes me want things to begin with? Well, hard to say, I just want things. It just feels good to have more, and be more, and do more. It's like feeding a hunger.
Why do you choose to go on?
I'm not looking for advice, I'm looking for variations and narratives.I will presume that you're asking how to be happy, and not why go on with life.
No, I'm asking why you (they) go on. Not every person pushes on because of happiness, and some feel shackled to life as opposed to treating it like an explorer or whatever.
Still in a way you almost answer the question.
You likely know that there are no reasons for you `to go on` aside from the ones that your mind, which is prone to deception, provides you with.
I mean as long as it's a reason to keep going, it's a part of why they're not dead. Maybe "deception" is an important part of it in lieu of omission.
You say you look for variations, but I expect you know that not one person here can give you a satisfactory answer.
A high number of answers with variations between them is liable to show themes, both about the person and about people as a whole. What makes it "satisfactory" is having answers at all.
You even say you're not looking for advice, presumably in defense against the usual barrage of condescending answers, but also in part because you know you will not receive any useful suggestions.
It'd serve to distract from the topic, which is why I didn't put my answer in the OP. Starting with my own would just make it about me, while seeing how others respond shows more of who they are, why something like that'd apply to them, etc.
After all, who would not want to be on the receiving end of some good advice?
Advice only works if it's for a one-to-one sort of thing, like learning how to open something or do a task at a job. If it's over something based on experience? It mostly serves as a means of saying "I told you so" in a higher-than-thou fashion after lamp shading the mistakes they'd inevitably have to make to grow as a person, assuming they possess the capacity to grow in that area at all.
There is no correct way to live your life, but there are tips to avoid being unhappy. For one, you can let go of your self-pity. It isn't useful to you or anyone else.
How does one just let go of that, or anything really, other than aiming towards a dissociative point?
Secondly, you can ask yourself what makes you happy. What makes me happy is seeing the sun set over the ocean, watching a well-performed act, finishing a puzzle -- a great many things.
Yeah I've done the "it's the simple things" rant a lot too. For people where that sense is fleeting it leads to a sense of running out of things to do and a sense of frantic urgency that leads towards stir craziness.
I've been trying to downgrade my expectations lately as a life goal. Instead of having a sense of urgency, I'd rather drop expecting things entirely and just see what's left.
I want to no longer want.
However, what makes my life worth living will probably not be meaningful to you. That is because finding fulfillment is an extremely personal experience.
Hence the point of the topic.
