What keeps you going during hard times?

[Matt Damon]

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

So instead of killing yourself, you just wish you were dead but have to endure because of your responsibilities?

That doesn't seem like a net positive.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

the power of spite and my interest in seeing how the world ends pretty much. plus to me at least killing yourself has never made much sense. you wanna kill yourself to make people who you feel dont care about you happy? fuck that shit. one thing this site has taught me is that all killing yourself does is give people the ability to use you like the troons use byuu and everyone else this site has supposedly murdered.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

There’s no honorable alternative to keeping going, so it’s best not to whine about it or indulge unworthy ideations

 

[glue eater]

Two things:

Faith. When I was younger atheist leftist, I was depressed by the thought of being a speck of cosmic dust, irrelevant in endless vastness of space. But learning I am a living image of God instilled this inherent sense of worth to myself. Also my job makes me feel like a contributing member of the society, a couple of years ago I hit the rock bottom, was unemployed and homeless, now I have an apartment of my own and working as frontend soy dev code monkey. Every year is better than the last, at least.

I aim to do at least one fun thing a day. If you can't find anything good in your day anymore, its probably time to end it. The fun thing can be sitting in a cafe, eating a cinnamon roll and a latte and watching the hustle and bustle of the city, cooking something good, even hanging out with neighbours or painting. This is distinct from hedonism, where the worth of your life is defined by pleasure. I used to be an addict, so I know very well chasing pleasure is, counterintuitively, a life without much enjoyment. You gotta learn to enjoy the little things, as hollow and cliche as it sounds, it's true.

 

[Kung Pow]

To me it is all vanity, we are all marching towards death in the end of the day, destined to cope with the fact that everything here that we conquer or are lucky enough to inherit will just disappear like smoke, like it never happened, and between living and being dead the former has something while the latter doesn't have that something. I think it is kind of foolish to take things that happen here with intense emotion, be it sadness or happiness, for me the thing that keeps me going is just a big whatever .

I believe that when we die we will go back to that state before life, and that meeting with that something that gave life and that is what truly matters to me in the end.

 

[Manu Chao90]

The fact than some people are going through even harder times. People suffering appease my anxiety.

 

[Still Exceptional]

Pure spite. There are people in this world I utterly detest and most of them are going to die in a decade, 2 tops. The knowledge that I will one day have the opportunity to dance on their graves keeps me going.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Fear. Don't particularly enjoy living but when the alternative is lying down on train tracks or strangling myself with a bungie cord like Dollar Store Robin Williams then it's not really much of a choice.

 

[Fools Idol]

Honestly I just deal and adapt to things without much thought. Now my mental state has yet to be (and hopefully never) challenged by something truly horrible but the hardships I have faced haven't stopped me from moving forward.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Like others have said, "this too shall pass."

And I have a wonderful husband, children and grandchildren that I love and want to see grow up, pets that I love, and so on.