Do you enjoy living?

Noumi · 06-10-2008, 09:11 AM

They always say ¨life is great¨ or ¨You have to be happy because you´re lucky, you´re alive¨ but, do you really like to live?

In my case, I´m not sure. I´ve realized that I never smile, and that there aren´t much things that make me happy. There´re a lot of things I hate, and very few things I like.

Maybe it´s just a problem I have, anyway I just wanted to know if there´s someone else that feels the same.

KontanKarite · 06-10-2008, 09:23 AM

I'm slightly scared to live. Sometimes I don't like living. I get pissed cause I can't realize my ambitions as clearly as I'd like. But I'm not scared of death. I do take time to be merry when I can and it's nice.

I know what you mean. The best advice I can give you is do what you can to find out your ambitions and interests and stick to them.

gothicusmaximus · 06-10-2008, 11:07 AM

I don't like living very much, but I suspect it's preferable to the alternative.

JCC · 06-10-2008, 11:10 AM

I love life. I'm completely unafraid of death, and in a way looking forward to that too, but I love life.

Bete Noire · 06-10-2008, 12:29 PM

I believe death to be the End. So living is it for me, and I intend to get the most out of every experience and emotion that comes my way, so yeah, I enjoy living.

BLEED REBELION!!! · 06-10-2008, 12:36 PM

I realize that there are many awesome things in life. But at this moment because I am not "old enough" to know "whats best for me" i am not able to do those things.
right now I dont enjoy life. But i've enjoyed it before & im sure I will again..

Life is pretty short its such a shame many of us waste them going to school and doing things we dont wan to do to please society. I personally want to go live in a shack n the rain forest and be a solitary fricken tree hugger..

TheBloodEternity · 06-10-2008, 01:39 PM

Meh.
Depends when you ask me.
I'm probably bipolar.

JCC · 06-10-2008, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBloodEternity

I'm probably bipolar.

So is everyone. Ever.

gothicusmaximus · 06-10-2008, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBloodEternity

Meh.
Depends when you ask me.
I'm probably bipolar.

Having more than one mood = among the 1% of the population with bipolar disorder.

JCC · 06-10-2008, 01:58 PM

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Having more than one mood = among the 1% of the population with bipolar disorder.

You mean the 100% of the population with bipolar disorder, amirite?!

gothicusmaximus · 06-10-2008, 02:02 PM

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You mean the 100% of the population with bipolar disorder, amirite?!

Actually, 25% of the population has TRIPOLAR disorder- THREE WHOLE MOODS!

JCC · 06-10-2008, 02:03 PM

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Actually, 25% of the population has TRIPOLAR disorder- THREE WHOLE MOODS!

Apathy, depression and melancholy are my three.

I AM UBER-GOTH.

xParadigmx · 06-10-2008, 02:54 PM

lmfao.

weird. i was in psych ward last summer, after some very nasty business i dont want to talk about, but i would have to say that i do love living.

i don't want to die. i'm not afraid of death, but i like where i am now. which is kind of a weird thing to say, i know. but being homeless hasnt affected my ambition to do the things ive always thought about.

at least i guess i can say i know what it's like to pretty much lose everythign you've ever had and still be ok with pretty much everything.

except for the sun.

Splintered · 06-10-2008, 03:19 PM

I take life seriously enough that I can get things done.

Other then that, I'm pretty happy and carefree with it.

Tea and Cake or Death · 06-10-2008, 03:24 PM

I can't say there is too much in life I enjoy. Nothing pops or sparkles anymore. The world is nothing but work and bills. I hate everything about it. I am a bitter person with no one who understands that. They all think I should poison/dull my mind with the same things they do. I hate my inability to connect with other humans.

So overall, I am friendless, stuck in a job that I hate, in order to maintain a lifestyle which at best fills me with boredom.

...no. I don't enjoy living.

DarkenedReveries · 06-10-2008, 05:16 PM

It is a constant yes or no battle within my mind. So I suppose I'll say sometimes. There are things I love about life and things I despise. I used to hate everything about life and then I started looking around me and I finally saw beauty. I do not like societal ideals and the cruelty of humanity, but the earth can be beautiful. But I also look forward to death and the unknown when it comes. I suppose life should be an experience, and that you should do all within your power to enjoy everything. I don't really know. I struggle with this question constantly. My answer is probably gibberish.

MollyMac · 06-10-2008, 05:44 PM

Ih. There are good day and bad. Even on the worst days, I am grateful that I am not dead and have a chance to do something fun.

Noumi · 06-11-2008, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by KontanKarite

I know what you mean. The best advice I can give you is do what you can to find out your ambitions and interests and stick to them.

Yes, I try to find my ambitions and dreams every day but I just seem to be so confused...
It's like I have no soul :s

bleedingheart344 · 06-11-2008, 06:24 AM

No soul equals confusion? Wow... you need to rethink that.

xParadigmx · 06-11-2008, 07:55 AM

i guess the people in the nursing homes i used to work for had it right. do everything you've ever thought about while you still can.

we are all free to do whatever we want.

JCC · 06-11-2008, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Noumi

Yes, I try to find my ambitions and dreams every day but I just seem to be so confused...
It's like I have no soul :s

You don't have a soul. Sorry.

disorder · 06-11-2008, 10:48 PM

I love life

Well, at the moment I do, anyway.

And I think it's a little bit silly when people say life is short. It's the longest thing you'll ever do.

Solumina · 06-11-2008, 11:22 PM

I love living, not simply being alive but really living. It is fairly easy to simply coast through life or just spend your time being focused on making money but from what I have seen that doesn't seem to bring any lasting happiness. The best advice I have ever heard for having a happy life is to find what makes you happy then find a way to get paid to do it, after all you are going to spend most of your waking time working so make the most of your time (my mother is both one of the wisest and happiest people that I have ever met)

Ishan · 06-12-2008, 07:50 AM

This is an interesting thread; as a near-middle aged Goth, I often feel like one of the ancients when I see so many members of this community are so young - many under the age of 20. I love life, and I love to live. It is sad that our society is suffering its present station, but the evolution of man and our broad cultural history for the past 3,000 years teaches us that efforts of one population group to control another are the cause of much of this suffering.

Everyone here who believes in exploring all truths - good, bad and indifferent (it is the indifferent truths that are sometimes the most frightening, as Stanley Kubrick once wrote) - that lends fresh optimism to the spirit of humanity.

I am not bi-polar, tri-polar or quadri-polar (new word, I guess). I feel everything all of the time ... so I am quasipolar (LOL). The best thought anyone ever had was this: Harm none, and do as you please. It is this exploration that permits true tolerance, fellowship and social growth. It does exists - if it did not - our race would have already perished.

I love life. I fear life - I explore death - and I know all things come to pass - and all that is will be once more.

Alas! I am still an old fool.

Noumi · 06-13-2008, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by BLEED REBELION!!!

Life is pretty short its such a shame many of us waste them going to school and doing things we dont wan to do to please society. I personally want to go live in a shack n the rain forest and be a solitary fricken tree hugger..

Yeah, it´s true that today all we do seems to have the porpuse of pleasing society. That´s the most proper way to live after all, but there´s always some barrier that keeps us away from happyness...