who/what are you living for today

[white camellia]

Who/what are you living for today?

I begin first: I am living for my parents today.

[blazeofglory]

I live for all and now at this particular moment for you.

[white camellia]

I live for all and now at this particular moment for you.
Thank you, in the name of all (if allowed).

But living is itself rewarding, 'being alive'.

[rachel_bookworm]

I am living to study (so it seems at the moment).

[Domer121]

I am living to discover today.

[Virgil]

I am living to work around the house today. :sick: But it has to be done.

[white camellia]

I'm living for my degree thesis today (to finish the formating), hopefully.

[blazeofglory]

Living for the sake of living and nothing else.

Everyone lives for living, for nothing is sweeter than the taste of life.

Everything in life is enjoyable in life and things are enjoyable just because life is a thing of beauty.

[white camellia]

...waiting for someone who is unlikely to show up for the rest of the day.

[wilbur lim]

I am inevitably living for the world,for I love the world,for I am the LORD,in all anguish,they shall take refuge in me!

[Scheherazade]

To sleep, perchance to dream...

[white camellia]

To do a (water-color) pencil drawing or a pen-and-ink one. Haven't started and it's getting late...

[blazeofglory]

This is really an interesting question and in fact this calls for great

thoughts and reflections.

In fact no one knows what he really and exactly lives for. We may live for a number of things. Some people live for consumption. Maybe to build a house and marry, birth kids and have a life with lots of excitement.

I often think if not always, I live for writing a good book and that book will sell immensely.

Or some people live for an ambition or materialization of the ambition they live with.

Still others live for self realization or to see God or to do lots of work, charitable works out of out of benovelence.

Or to put this a little differently, we many a time live unaware of what we live for and whom we live for.

As regards what we live for I have said that there could be a thousand and one reason what we live for.

Maybe we are wrong in saying what we really live for and more often we idealize or rationalize particular ways but we are not really living for that.

The answer I have is we do not know exactly what we live for.

But as regards to your another question, whom we live for every one has an answer depending upon his or her perception of life.
Some persons, and in fact many may say they live for a particular one or ones they love in life.

Maybe for family members, like for parents, spouses, or sons and daughters and the like.

When we say 'whom' we live for we have definite answers, but when we say
what we live for we have vaguer answers, totally indistinct and uncelar.

I can not say whether any can have a proper answer. For through generations or millenniums we find no answers to this question.

I like this question very much for a simple reason that this seeks answers for the entire philosophical question.

In fact all philosophers right from Gregorian time to now seeks answers to this question, but end up finding no answer.

Of course you have answers, but never a right one.

I have written three times here in response to this question and yet I am not sartisfied with I wrote. Yet I cannot resist the temptation of sharing with you.

Maybe sharing something with someone or people at particular time and place is what I live for.

[Niamh]

Right now i am living for a good nights sleep in my bed!

[white camellia]

Interesting thoughts there, blaze. Although we don't seem to have the right or exact answer, it does never stop us from searching for one.

Me as well, for a good sleep so that I could live well tomorrow.

[RoCKiTcZa]

Living for the world.

Feel free to deposit queries if you wish to know why. :p

[Chava]

Tonight, I'm living because it seems a time to be made the most of. Living is one of my most rewarding habits really

[kilted exile]

Myself

[mercy_mankind]

Myself
Excuse me but don't you think that it is a selfishness to live for yourself only?!
I don't want to interfere in your business but it is just a question.:)

[mickitaz]

I am living for sleep and relaxation.

[Nyu001]

Living to wait my death! No! Living to have a good life with my wife and in peace! feeling all relax! and doing what I love to do, music and my wife! ;)

Now my thought:

The original purpose to know why are we alive is a mystery and will keep being a mystery for us. But the only choice we have is to create our own purpose in life. Our own goals, our beliefs, the people we love and care, etc. All this give us a sense to keep living.

However, humans have that desire to live in them. Even feeling that they don't have a "purpose" or feeling an urge to kill oneself because a deep suffering in them. Look at those that try to kill themself, they take their time to do it. And they are going against a "will" to live that they have in them, due a deep suffering that they can't tolerate anymore. This makes them to go against that will for finish a suffering. But this shows that that is not what they really want. If there was not suffering they will keep living.

I think I ended going away from the original question to "Why humans have a desire to live?"

I want to add that this is just how I view it. And I am not putting it as a fact. Since not everybody will think it the same way.

[Dori]

To sleep, perchance to dream...

Hamlet! :D From his "To be or not to be" speech, if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway, today, I'm living for her.

[Scheherazade]

Hamlet! :D From his "To be or not to be" speech, if I'm not mistaken.Correct! Here is your cookie!:p

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[Nyu001]

Oh God, I want now a cookie.

[Dori]

Correct! Here is your cookie!:p

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Yum yum yum yum yum. :D

[white camellia]

Oh, now, for my chocolate.

[kilted exile]

Excuse me but don't you think that it is a selfishness to live for yourself only?!
I don't want to interfere in your business but it is just a question.:)

Nope, dont think it's selfish at all. It is vital at times to put yourself first otherwise you burn out

[Niamh]

I am living for a good night sleep!

[Scheherazade]

To rant, perchance to whine...

[mazHur]

am trying to understand!

[Scheherazade]

am trying to understand!"Do or do not. There is no 'try'."

~ Jedi Master Yoda.

:p

[mazHur]

"Do or do not. There is no 'try'."

that would be the height of desperation!:)
do what?:alien:
die where?:D

[thelastmelon]

Today I'm living for my kitten, Tara.

[Within Me]

i`m living to Be.

[Jozanny]

Today I live for a good smoke, a decent cup of coffee and a piece of chocolate to nibble over a delightfully garrish Wes Craven film which Wes Craven himself takes too seriously.

[blazeofglory]

We live for so many things in life, not just one or two, and in fact we live for ourselves in reality speaking unpretentiously in point of fact.

[wilbur lim]

I am living for my examination.It cannot be avoided for it is present invariably,so radical it is that I feel like dying and perishing.

[mazHur]

We live for so many things in life, not just one or two, and in fact we live for ourselves in reality speaking unpretentiously in point of fact.

I think we live just because we are destined to live for a certain time!:)

[Scheherazade]

To work, perchance to achieve something.

[white camellia]

To think, perchance to get somewhere.

[Pensive]

Myself

Yes.


Excuse me but don't you think that it is a selfishness to live for yourself only?!
I don't want to interfere in your business but it is just a question.:)

Yes, it is selfish. I can hardly spot a reply here which is unselfish. :p
(I think it's my business to reply to this because ultimately am living for myself too :D)

[mazHur]

Yes.



Yes, it is selfish. I can hardly spot a reply here which is unselfish. :p

Hmmm,,,,,,selfishness seems to be a better part of valor!;)

[blazeofglory]

We live for no end and for no ideologies and for nothing. I live for living.

[mazHur]

We live for no end and for no ideologies and for nothing. I live for living.

BTW what other option do you have otherwise??;)

[blazeofglory]

BTW what other option do you have otherwise??;)

I have no option and I take my life as a speck, a cosmic dust, and get swayed by gravitational forces in the cosmos.

[mazHur]

I have no option and I take my life as a speck, a cosmic dust, and get swayed by gravitational forces in the cosmos.

Good!Let's make best of this 'speck' before it's lost in the cosmos!
Don't you think humans, like all other living things, are made for 'procreation' only?

[wilbur lim]

Life had already chosen me,I did not chose my life!It is adverse to get a life akin to this!

[Scheherazade]

To rest, perchance to relax.

[blazeofglory]

Good!Let's make best of this 'speck' before it's lost in the cosmos!
Don't you think humans, like all other living things, are made for 'procreation' only?

No Mazhur, humans are not just for procreation. Human beings procreate but in procreating he is not confined and must not be defined in terms of procreation. He is really more than all we define and of course surmise.

Life is mysterious, and what we know life is very little, and our knowledge of it is likened to a drop of water before a vast water-body. Life is something that engages us and make us do this and think and it is all life's own course. Life whittles its course for itself. All courses culminate in life like all rivers culminating in the sea as a matter of fact.

Science tries to confine life within a body, and philosophy trying to define it in terms and words fail, for life is too big to be confined or framed in the frame of words and sentences.

Life is too big a thing, and life is a big river and the route of it is not something un-bendable, and of of course life is not just the sum of all that we know and of course the summation of all we do not know.

All have different definitions of or perspectives on life. Life is something we never can decipher the full secret or mystery of it.

[ntropyincarnate]

i'm living because i'm afraid of death.

[Pensive]

No Mazhur, humans are not just for procreation. Human beings procreate but in procreating he is not confined and must not be defined in terms of procreation. He is really more than all we define and of course surmise.

Life is mysterious, and what we know life is very little, and our knowledge of it is likened to a drop of water before a vast water-body. Life is something that engages us and make us do this and think and it is all life's own course. Life whittles its course for itself. All courses culminate in life like all rivers culminating in the sea as a matter of fact.

Science tries to confine life within a body, and philosophy trying to define it in terms and words fail, for life is too big to be confined or framed in the frame of words and sentences.

Life is too big a thing, and life is a big river and the route of it is not something un-bendable, and of of course life is not just the sum of all that we know and of course the summation of all we do not know.

All have different definitions of or perspectives on life. Life is something we never can decipher the full secret or mystery of it.

If we know too little of life then who are we to claim if it's 'too big a thing' or 'too little a thing'? :D

[Scheherazade]

To read, perchance to understand something.

[Mr Hyde]

Hedonistic pleasure.

[white camellia]

For what?

[white camellia]

To sleep, perchance to dream of something delightful.

[Scheherazade]

To sleep, perchance to dream of something delightful.Ambitious!

To breathe, perchance to survive.

[Scheherazade]

To work, perchance to achieve something.

[The Comedian]

To play princesses, perchance to bond with my daughters.

[Niamh]

Saving to see the world... hopefully!

[Scheherazade]

To sleep, perchance to dream...

[Mariner]

For my life. I have to live to live out each day. I like my life and where it's going enough to work hard at it each day. I live for my friends, my family, my dog, my girlfriend, my work, and my school because that's what I do.

[Maximilianus]

To love, perchance to learn how not to hate.
To forgive, perchance to move on.
To conquer her, perchance to learn how not to lose her.
To be, perchance to stop not being.
To deserve, perchance...

[Niamh]

Today i'm living for studying and saving for a home of my own....

[blazeofglory]

This is really a very serious question. I do not know yet what I am really living for. Maybe I am living for writing on this forum or to associate with you all. I may be living for raising a family of my own so that I can commission a wall between myself and the rest of the world.

I may be living for loving and hating, maybe for searching my origin or to seek for an answer to the where we came from question. We really cannot say exactly why we are living for. Maybe priorities change every so often; the values I live by today is not unalterable. The beliefs we have garnered are not irreversible.

[Maximilianus]

Maybe I am living for writing on this forum or to associate with you all.
Good point :thumbsup:


I may be living for raising a family of my own so that I can commission a wall between myself and the rest of the world.
That's a very interesting way to define a family http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif Good phrase, blaze http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

[JuniperWoolf]

Hmm... David, my mother, my father, my nannie and poppa would all lose it if I were to die. So I live so that their lives don't suck.

I also live for what I like to do... reading, being outside, watching the seasons, eating, stuff like that.

I guess I also live for the future, because I want to see the seasons in more places than just here. I want to see redwood forests, I need to spend more time at the ocean and I want to see what a desert is like after a rainstorm (I've heard that it's beautiful). Stuff like that.

[Hurricane]

So that I can get to the point where I can help make the world a better place.

[Scheherazade]

To relax, perchance to smile.

[white camellia]

To make a decision that looks hard only to me but in fact, might not be at all.

[Heathcliff]

Today I'm livin' to get into my warm, comfy bed.

[blazeofglory]

Ponderings
This is in point of fact a million dollars question and that gets me into thinking all the time and that is why I am with all of you on this forum, to know me who I am and where I came from and whether I am connected with all of you circuitously or I am a totally different entity and live unitarily.

Does anybody for sure know why he is here and what got him here? At times I believe I am here to have fun. I am here because my parents have a primal desire for copulation and they could not help or restrain themselves. I am the youngest among the 7 children my parents have. I could have been unwanted or a redundancy, for my birth or entrance into an already crowded family was not celebrated jubilantly. This approves the fact that I have been here involuntarily. I can put it another way. My parents did not know a contraceptive then or even if they had known it they abstained from it out of their religiosity thinking that this is sacrilege to stop letting come a life that wants to see the world.

It matters little whether I came by mistake or by accident or by way of something that had to do with the impulses my parents had in their prime of life. It matters much that I am with you on the loose to respond to what you say and to move you, to anger you, to accompany you, to appease you, to exchange words with you and the like.

My arrival is not anything phenomenal. I am stardust. I am a fugitive; I was not here; I am here; I will not be here. This is a dream, a flash and appears and disappears in a spilt of a second.

[Scheherazade]

To recover, perchance to feel healthy again.

[Heathcliff]

Today I'm living to get to got to this place for dinner tonight. :thumbs_up

[blazeofglory]

I am living for coming across you, to wire myself to you and transact with you so that in togetherness I will weave a web of my to entangle you, to ensnare you.

[Maximilianus]

To recover, perchance to feel healthy again.
Get well soon Scher http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/good2.gif


Today I'm living to get to got to this place for dinner tonight. :thumbs_up
Hope you had a good dinner :)


I am living for coming across you, to wire myself to you and transact with you so that in togetherness I will weave a web of my to entangle you, to ensnare you.

Oh My! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scare.gif
blaze wants to become a forum hunter! :p :D

[Heathcliff]

Today I lived for a Mummy-daughther Day.

[JuniperWoolf]

To read, perchance to learn.

[toni]

To paint, perchance to create..

[BienvenuJDC]

Aye...there's the rub...

For on that canvas scape, wet paint comes off...

[Maximilianus]

To wonder why, perchance to keep wondering why.

[Heathcliff]

To arrive at Thursday and see how my grandmother dyes boiled eggs for easter, perchance to be able to one day carry on the tradition.

[Maximilianus]

To arrive at Thursday and see how my grandmother dyes boiled eggs for easter, perchance to be able to one day carry on the tradition.
That sounds interesting :nod: does grandma prepare big easter eggs?

[Oniw17]

At the moment I'm living for the USArmy, but I'd destroy the whole establishment in a day if it were weighed against my family. I'm not exactly sure how, but I'd make it happen.

[Heathcliff]

That sounds interesting :nod: does grandma prepare big easter eggs?
Neh. Decent sized.
I'm not keen on chocolate. Only I still fuss that my brother gets more than me.

I'm living for school on Tuesday.

Wa- wa- wa- wait! I just remembered we have choir on Tuesday!

What a wonderful life! :nod::biggrin5:

[Scheherazade]

To resist the temptation, perchance to prevent a mistake...

[Heathcliff]

To go to school tomorrow. :angel:

To see the people at school. :grouphug:

To hopefully actually learn the guitar. :lol:

To go to choir. :ihih:

To yell at my brother and throw him out of my room. :nod:

[Maryd.]

I always live for my children... Plus a few luxuries, like a glass of good red, a good friend and of course a good read...

Lately I have lived to write and make internet provider's lives, very unhappy... Hahaha.

[Heathcliff]

...make internet provider's lives, very unhappy... Hahaha.
Haha. Awesome.

Today I live for a hamburger or something similar.
But not a Macca's one.:incazzato:

[blazeofglory]

I live for everything! A little for someone who loves me, for someone who expects from me and for those who despise me for if I do not live how can the poor fellow despise me?

[applepie]

I live for those I love and maybe just a bit for the bits of me that have not been swallowed by them. Mostly I live for my children, they're the most important thing in my world :D

[lostworld]

Some days I'm not really sure...but my best answer is that I live for the people I love and the ones that love me.

[blazeofglory]

I have been living for a variety of things at the same time. I have passions, feelings and I want to fulfill them and I want to live so that they will materialize. Life is a game I want to win. Life is a path I want to walk and I do not depart before arriving.

I have so many deferred dreams. I have gone halfway and have to complete the other half. I have completed the book midway and I have to complete it. I have to complete many things half-done

[Indyben]

I live for the people I see at school and at home everyday. One person in particular lights up my day.

[Heathcliff]

I'm living for a catapillar in a monkey suit!

Wait - nah.

I'm living for my family, friends, kuddly kompanions and to make it up to my Italian teacher as due to something that is not exactly my own fault, I feel epically guilty. :(

[Maryd.]

I'm living to finsih off this house... It is taking me forever... What was I thinking of buying a house that was between 50-60 years old.

[BienvenuJDC]

I am living for the three girls in my house...

[Niamh]

Today, 25th of May, I'm living for my boyfriend who i've been with for one year. :)

[Maryd.]

Today I am living to clean up after my daughter, :puke: Don't you just hate gastro?

[Heathcliff]

Today I am living to clean up after my daughter, :puke: Don't you just hate gastro?
I love you... :D

I'm living for new experiences. :nod:
And I'm attempting to percevere through some of these songs... :cold:

[white camellia]

(Been 11 years, now am back...)

Working out a topic for a literature conference paper, hopefully...


Am living for a dream that looks dreamless...

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome back.

For my wife and my father.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

All you guys with your schmaltz and philosophy. Where are my peeps? Living for carnal pleasure and lots of it. For the fun of a video game and the inexpressible joy of sinking your teeth into a perfectly done steak. For the shape of a girl's body and the smell of her hair. For horizons and sunsets and leaves swirling on the ground in Fall. For humor that makes you laugh till you spew. For a good cup of tea. For a good book. For new technology. For, uh, for my tomato plant to produce its first tomato.

[MANICHAEAN]

That's my boy.

To fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

[JuniperWoolf]

Good thread.


All you guys with your schmaltz and philosophy. Where are my peeps? Living for carnal pleasure and lots of it. For the fun of a video game and the inexpressible joy of sinking your teeth into a perfectly done steak. For the shape of a girl's body and the smell of her hair. For horizons and sunsets and leaves swirling on the ground in Fall. For humor that makes you laugh till you spew. For a good cup of tea. For a good book. For new technology. For, uh, for my tomato plant to produce its first tomato.

Haha, pretty much my philosophy! :-)

Right now I'm living for Pokemon Go, red wine, and truffled spaghetti.

[North Star]

For the beauty in nature and women and everything else, for the click of a beer can on a hot summer evening, for great sentences, paragraphs and books, for music, art, and movies, for food, friends, and ice cream.

[heartwing]

I'm living for my son, my dog, myself. Almost two and a half years surviving cancer and counting. I would have counted many more things at one time, but now, my pack is light and my focus narrow. I am grateful.

[Helga]

I think I mainly live for myself. my son and my dogs are a part of that world but I enjoy me more than anyone else.

On a slightly superficial note, I live for books, tv, coffee (there is no life without coffee) and good food. Could live a very happy life with just these things.

[Scheherazade]

Right now, for my holiday in a week's time... So excited.

[Pompey Bum]

Almost two and a half years surviving cancer and counting.

Congratulations. Thirty years for me. Every day has been a victory.

[heartwing]

Congratulations. Thirty years for me. Every day has been a victory.

You're awesome, BM. We are awesome. Everyone who has survived something like this is totally and completely awesome.

[Pompey Bum]

You're awesome, BM. We are awesome. Everyone who has survived something like this is totally and completely awesome.

You're awesome, too. And don't call me "BM." :) :) :)

[heartwing]

You're awesome, too. And don't call me "BM." :) :) :)

Ha ha ha! Oh My! Apologies! Seriously and for realsies.....ugh....

[Pompey Bum]

Ah, it happens all the time...

[Pompey Bum]

(there is no life without coffee)

Agreed. I'm like Dracula about it. "The coffee is the life, Mr. Harker."

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Agreed. I'm like Dracula about it. "The coffee is the life, Mr. Harker."

"Beans! Thousands of beans! All black coffee, and all for the Master." --Renfield

[Helga]

The tv addict in my loves the phrase my favourite agent used 'Black as midnight on a moonless night'... We'll be seeing him again soon

[Tyrion Cheddar]

At the moment, I'm living for this cup of coffee, which I made. Heavy cream and a touch of sweetener, mmm...