what makes you carry on?

Question

what makes you go on through this trial called life why do you put up with it i wanna know? because everything in this world does not even scratch the surface of our deepest desires, what do we do?

for uncle ben your deepest desires are the very questions within yourself that have no answer or the answer cannot be supplied by anything within your plane of existense. ex what is the meaning of life? no one can really answer that except for the very thing that intended you to have life.and no im not talking about your mother or father and for some of you that is god of some sort but has he came down and actually explained why your here and does it satisfy your question....really?

Answer 1

Sorry partner. I have to reject the enter premise of your question. I do not consider my life to be a trial, I consider it to be a privilege.

My deepest desires are amply met because I am old enough and wise enough to get what I want and need within the boundaries of the society within which I find myself.

Each day for me is an adventure that I meet with keen anticipation. The word "dread" is almost out of my vocabulary.

I enjoy the world with its boundless variety and comfortable yet unpredictable nuances.

The misery you describe in your question says much more about you and your relationship to reality than it does about the reality itself. Be patent, you'll grow out of your gloom and begin to see that the world and all that is in it is a garden of delight.

Answer 2

I try to focus on the work at hand.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

Habit, curiosity

As for meaning of life, yes one can have an answer to that. The answer is nothing. There is no god, no purpose, no nothing. Humans are an accident as is all life. We have had 5 major die-offs on this planet and if not for the last one, humans would never have evolved. There may be another within 10 years or 10 million years. In any case, humans will be dead someday. Poof. no purpose.

Answer 4

There are moments that meet my deepest desires, they don't last but they do happen.

On average life is better than good. I'm still learning, still loving and connecting with people. Thats what keeps me going.

So far as God or a higher being goes, I don't believe there is one. I believe that goodness, or the source of creation is in all of us. It is through meeting and talking to people that you learn more about life's mysteries, and come to some greater understanding of goodness (or badness), and creations (and destruction). For me its all in the learning and connecting.

We'll all die, so might as well enjoy the journey while we have the chance!

Answer 5

Life is very difficult at times, but if I look at the big picture life has been very good for me. Good enough that I should not complain. The only thing I have not gotten out of life that I really hope and pray that I have someday is a husband that loves me unconditionally-blah blah-but the reason I carry on-I would much rather carry on than not. Plain and simple.

Answer 6

Because my life has been rough enough and I've made it thus far, to give up would be wasting the years of my life where it wasn't pretty or picture perfect. Here's one of my favorite quotes to better say my belief in why one should never give up even when it gets unbareable sometimes.

"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well."
-Theodore Roosevelt
Des Moines, Iowa
November 4, 1910

Answer 7

What alternative do we have?

As a person, I have an innate desire to be happy, and whether I understand why I'm here or not, the means to bring about my happiness are here on earth for me to pursue. Will I ever achieve absolutely perfect happiness? Of course not. There will always be adversity of some kind in my life, as in everyone's. But one of the rewarding experiences of being human is proving to yourself that you have the strength to overcome those adversities. Surviving life's challenges is not a thankless job. It's difficult, but you actually feel empowered as a result of successfully doing it.

Our only alternative to "trucking on" in this fashion is to commit suicide, and we have our natural impulse to protect our lives and the lives of our kin to thank for the fact that we would have to be driven quite far over the edge to feel compelled to do that.

Answer 8

The journey is part of the destination. Once we get where we are going hopefully we can look back on our lives and appreciate what we have done. Sure, there will be regrets but, I think in the end all I have done will seem to have been worthwhile. Find what it is that you can look on and be proud of and know that when this life is through you will have fewer regrets than if you had not asked your question.

Answer 9

We are in the middle of a war between life and death. Death is all around us. Things conspire to steal life away from us, from bacteria to terrorists.

You are free to choose to give up your life to the forces of death, but then you couldn't do anything else...seems to be a waste. Life, then, is a very rare gift, considering everything else in the universe that is not alive and the myriad opportunities for you to die.

We carry on, because we don't want death to win. The world is much more interesting with life in it. And it should make you angry that things around you are trying to take your life away. So even if you feel you don't have anything to live for, fight on principle alone.

Answer 10

Personally? Because I am too stubborn to give up.

Humanity "carries on", even in the face of drastic change, heartbreak, etc, because we have a driving need to fulfill dreams, to have things get "better".....its, well personally I see it as, the major driving force of human life. Striving to make something better, make something out of nothing, to make sense out of something senseless. If humans keep going, keep trying, then life isn't pointless, and our deepest desires are possilbe. Give up and it all ends......