What keeps you going during hard times?

[Spamton G. Spamton]

I recently read through the thread on Sanctioned Suicide, and it made me wonder what others had to say on the matter. What keeps you going through difficult times? What makes life in the modern world more bearable to live in? Is it the little things or anything particularly large? Is it friends and family, or something else?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I want to outlive the kind of people I hate.

 

[Chilson]

Serious answer, knowing that things will get better. I say "knowing" as if I can see the future, but its really just about the mindset.

Buddhists have a saying about how life is like a wave and it really resonates with me. It comes up to the shore in a violent display then recedes back to the ocean to become still. It means that the violent turbulence and strife of life will recede and give way to more stable and calm times (among many other interpretations that I won't go into). Its a powerful visual for me to get my mind out of the gutter and see the whole picture, that the valley's of life will eventually become hills if you persevere long enough to see them.

 

[Claude Sigma]

Responsibility.
Suicide is not an option when you have responsibilities. So you just brush it off and keep moving forward.

We have statistics about how you are way less likely to kill yourself if you have pets, even less if you're married, even less if you have children. That may be why.
Or maybe because responsibility is a huge component of a meaningful life for men. Chicken and eggs.

 

[Marcus Tullius Cicero]

Faith certainly helps, I think. It gives you a certain hope, not only that things can get better, in the future, but that there is still good to be found despite difficult circumstances. Responsibility to others and yourself helps also, though I personally place faith above that.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

My cats. Really.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Heroin

 

[CowPox]

I think of all the niggers rapists, murderers and pedos sitting in prison or at large who have hurt people and never think twice about it, never feel a iota of guilt, probably don't even remember the names of their victims and realize compared to these people i'm nearly a saintly individual, that for all my guilt and fuck ups i've never hurt someone in the ways these people have, and there seems to be so many of them in this shit world...

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Being a boomer and having seen it all before and survived. "Here and now" always seems like it's the worst but you get through it.

 

[Pedophobe]

Gotta read The Winds of Winter.

 

[Fag Albert]

because im fag albert and someone has to step up and fill the forum with low iq posts

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Spite. Every time I read a post that says "I wish boomers would just die already" it gives me the motivation to keep going.

Fuck you, zoomers. I'm going to outlive you all.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

I want to live long enough to watch the world burn

 

[proangelwhangs]

you always need to have something new to work towards or look forward to.
the empty feeling after you've achieved something is killer.

 

[Street Peter]

My mother's smile. Even though I can be stubborn POS. She always tells me she loves me. I will always be greatful for everything she's done for me.

 

[The Luigi Player]

Raping men keeps me going man I don't know what I'd do if there were no men left

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Knowing that the hard times won't last forever and I'm not enough of a piss baby to want to off myself because life sucks right now.

 

[Twinkletard]

BBQ Beef Ribs

 

[gang weeder]

Remembering there are people who want me dead and that, by living, I spite them.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I just don't care. If I didn't have my family giving me a good deal on housing, then I'd probably go on a rampage in California until I got stomped. But since i have that and I know that I can be responsible for at least a 3 year stretch of time, I don't do that. So I guess I have pride and gratitude.