What's your reason to live?

finishing the computer engineering studies
getting the job of my dreams
travelling the world
achieving a level of entire freedom

To get back at everyone who wronged me.

Being too chicken-shit to *ctb.

When I am listening to good music (the definition of “good” depends on my mood), then I want to live, or maybe even feel joyful.

When I play music, sometimes I enjoy a state of flow, which I find very calming afterward.

Enjoyment of my sense perceptions: beautiful sights, the variety of sounds, cologne, perfume or essential oils scents, gourmet, or just honest, authentic food, hugs, exercise, and touch, and learning about the origins of great arts and reading to understand beautiful ideas.

Recovery: I’m getting better. I’m sure I will feel worse eventually; recovery is not linear for anyone. Yet now that I’ve experienced relative peacefulness, I have evidence that it’s possible.

Developing greater ease in my mind and body through meditation and yoga (really any exercise, but stretching feels really good to me).

Learning about spiritual traditions across geographies and times, and seeing how they overlap. Similar with math, which is to say that the same patterns and constants that are found in geography and physics, also show up in biology, anthropology, economics, and the rest of the social sciences.

I figured out a while ago that there is no point in living for anything but Love.

Love of your hobbies, love of your family, love of your spouse, love of your God, love of your self.

Whatever it is you love, these are what you should live for, and is what I live for too.

To see how my children succeed or grow older
To experience more sunny or rainy days
To have more interactions with people
To have more days with my beloved cat Ziggy
To read more good books
To beat my odds

There are other reasons, but the main one is probably the same fear of change that doesn't allow me to live.

Being here for the people who care about me

Seeing and hugging and talking with my son and daughter again. Rainy days & nights, the scent of petrachor. Learning and achieving what I want in my profession. Running a half, someday, before I'm too old ha. Sunrise & a cup of coffee on my birthday: the next year.

I have dreams and misguided hopes of things that might never happen in my life.

But I have to be here to see if they will happen.

But at the same time, I know that they aren't going to happen.

Or when they happen I will be very old and bitter and not able to enjoy anything, because it didn't happen the way I want.

I hope that you do get your share and more of good things to come to and happen in your life and soon.

My reason to live today is music I can connect to.

Hoping to see my grandbaby born in May...

Get my wife to Spain
Continue to help kids with University in France
Vacation plans for many countries (a lot left, I have not seen)
Good things I still can do
Work on myself, so I can die with a good conscience and a good feeling
Getting healed - once and for all (if this is ever possible)
Learn more and better Spanish, now only mediocre.
Paragliding when possible.
Make music, read books, be a good person, help others, walk in nature... So many things.

None really.

We're glad you're here. Sending good thoughts & a prayer SillyOldBear.

That I may one day meet my grandson
My children need me alive
Seeing the beautiful fall leaves
My cat Ziggy
It may not be much, but my life is mine

Hugs and teddy bears do go together nicely.

They sure do!