What is your reason for being here?

In other words, what is your purpose for being here on Earth? What motivates you to stay alive? Or is there no reason at all and you're only here because you can be for as long as you want/have the capability to?

Family 12
Friends 6
Myself 26
Nothing really. I'm only here for the long ride. 22
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  • disthing

    I'm here because the alternative is absolute nothingness, and consciousness is so much more exciting.

    There is no inherent purpose; it's a blank page to fill with whatever scribbles and doodles of life you want.

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  • dom180

    I love my friends and family, but they are definitely not my reason to live. My reason to live is derived from myself. I live to think, and I live to do. Learn about the world I live in in the broadest possible sense, developing values - think. Contribute positively to it according to those values - do. I live to fulfill and enrich myself. The experience of life is all we have, and if we don't live we have nothing.

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    • shuggy-chan

      admit it, you here for the babes, just like me

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  • anti-hero

    Good TV and junk food. FFS if I was dead I would miss out on Taco Bell's upcoming breakfast menu! ... *thinks it over, pulls out gun, presses to temple, pulls tri

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    • charli.m

      *cries*

      Why do all the good ones die young?

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  • Aliceee93

    I've been given a life so I will make the most of it :)

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  • RegGuy

    To serve and glorify God.

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    • WokeUpScreamingFilmNoir

      Thumbed you up. It is shameful that two people thumbed you down for expressing your faith. Some people are so full of hate. Don't let them get you down.

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      • RegGuy

        Thanks for your encouraging words! I kind of figured that I would draw a little hate when I posted that, but no harm done. :)

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  • Supernatural O.O

    I am on earth. There could have easily been a million other people in my place, but no, it was me. I am going to pursue all of the pleasures of life, and also try to improve the crappier parts of this planet, the lives of those around me, as well as hopefully be a part of new scientific advancements.

    I should really take self defense classes.

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    • WokeUpScreamingFilmNoir

      Kung fu?

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      • I'm not sure! Some weapons training definitely though.

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        • WokeUpScreamingFilmNoir

          Just paint a cardboard Christmas wrapping paper tube so it looks like a samurai sword.

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          • pffffft I can't efficiently lop off zombie heads with a wrapping paper tube though...

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            • shuggy-chan

              a true samurai can

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            • WokeUpScreamingFilmNoir

              You could, thank you had mad skills.

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  • thegypsysailor

    I am here to have a really great time. To experience EVERYTHING life has to offer, good and bad, and in the end, go out on my own terms, with no regrets for things I didn't do.

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  • green_boogers

    Love and work. What verse will you add to civilization?

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  • Canttel!

    Me,myself, and I are the only ones who really know why i am here.
    Im not here to make any one happy, to not make any one feel any kind of way. Im not here for anything stupid. I value life more important than gold or owning your own country or owning half of the world.
    Me,myself, and I are here because we are ALIVE. and WE must LIVE and carry out what WE feel.

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  • Riddler

    People are born to help the species survive or flourish. If you cant do that you must find your own purpose. I live only to serve mankind in some manner and if I cant fix the worlds flaws I do not deserve to live on earth. I have no real purpose. I must serve mankind and if not I must die. Its as simple as that. I in the past tried to attach myself to someone I could serve but they ended up moving and my world collapsed in that persons absence. However whenever I tell people this they think I am insane or just stupid for thinking so.

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  • biaj

    Its not like any of us chose to be alive or born so if i had to chose why i still havent killed myself i want to say its to help people around me. if i was living life for no reason i would just kill myself and wouldnt miss any of it. living for no reason just seems like such a boring waste of time. if i do something it goes away and means nothing if i do something important that is never forgotten im jus going to be judge for all eternity BOOOORINNGGGG.

    in short to help people.

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  • TheGodThatFailed

    I am a powerful demon that for some reason can't die.

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  • Freedom_

    Kairos. I'm here to make the world a better place. That's why we're all here. Why? Who fucking knows. Probably for the special star level you get to go to after Yoshi's Island.

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  • shortandtothepoint

    That's a good question.

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  • Shrunk

    been wondering this lately..rather depressing really.. i can't think of a reason. only reason i do anything is to please others. and not in an altrustic sort of way.. just because i have nothing else to do, and i wouldn't want to disappoint the nice people like my family, even with something like dying.

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    • charli.m

      I know I don't know you well, but the vibe I get from you is that youre a really great, if reserved, person. I wish you felt more positive, because I think you deserve to feel good about yourself and your life.

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    I don't think anyone person is here for a set reason, as you say many people create their own reasons, personally I don't have one, I'm fine with that though it means I can search for my own

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  • megadriver

    Well, my parents made me. I grow up. I study.
    Next thing is to make money and have a family of my own.
    Guess I live for a happy family life and a wealthy lifestyle.
    That AMG I have my eyes on sure isn't going to be free XD

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