What keeps you going during hard times?

[DeadwastePrime]

bingus my beloved

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Porn, if I'm being honest. But I'm a loser.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Remembering the good times. Also, knowing that life has no absolutes. The monolith of today may become rubble tomorrow. One of my favorite examples is how the Golden Age of Piracy started. It began with shit-tier living standards imposed by the nobility onto the lower class and wonder why their sailors started hoisting the black flag and their shipment of caviar got delayed.

That being said, its important to remember that everyone has more options than they could account for. As long as you are willing to take that gamble when the time comes.

 

[Pootato]

Peeweetoms youtube channel when you see the amount of shit that dude got your own troubles seem often not that important anymore.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The inability to know what happens after death, whether it's consciousness evaporating into oblivion, hell for being wrong religion/an arse, being reincarnated as a Chinese or having your soul eaten by Shug'Niggorath it can always get worse.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Idk, I guess that my body doesn't die. That's really all you need.

What's the other option, suicide?

In the past I always found if you think about offing yourself then you start thinking about all the remarkable stuff you could do if the consequences don't matter, and before you know it you've formed an entire fantastical narrative in your head, and that paradoxically shows that you do still have some passion for life, you're only repressing it.

Sometimes embracing death is what a person really has to do to realize what's worth living for.

Reminds me of this quote:

“Rehearse your death every morning and night. Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to find freedom in the martial Way, and fulfill your duties without fault throughout your life.”

― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

 

[ANNE ARCKY]

The only reason I haven’t tried killing myself is simple: I’d fuck it up. I’d rather be just a failure & not a failure + paraplegic.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

One of my favorite examples is how the Golden Age of Piracy started.

Didn't essentially every famous pirate have a short career and an untimely death?

 

[Shidoen]

I ain't got time to bleed.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Spite

 

[RollerGator]

I want to live long enough to watch the world burn

When the apocalypse comes you can join my gang of raiders

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Music, humor and any kind of assurance that I'll be able to survive said hard times. Friends help but you don't want to depend on them to cheer you up, that kind of shit is really draining and causes resentment.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Viagra keeps me going when times get hard

 

[Tour of Italy]

The knowledge that someday, somehow, Null is gonna fix the highlight feature and I can read threads again with having to sift through useless garbage.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

"This too shall pass" is what keeps me going.

 

[Humbert Humbert]

Kiwifarms, unironically. I just love shitposting and laughing at the things going on here.

If I kill myself it means I won’t be able to write updates or laugh at the people here.

 

[Timmy Jolsen]

Because I wouldn't be happier dead, since I wouldn't even exist anymore (don't believe in an afterlife).

And on the offchance the Christians are right, suicide is a direct ticket to hell, do not pass go, do not collect 200. So either way it's a dumb idea.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

My pitbulls

 

[Jean ValJean]

Lifting heavy weights.

And alcohol. Lots of alcohol.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Didn't essentially every famous pirate have a short career and an untimely death?

They did. But there were also those that did succeed and get away with it. Like getting that pardon and settling down. Either way, their actions ended up reforming the work conditions aboard the sea vessels out of fear that the crew may simply mutiny, take the cargo and start robbing other ships.