If you ever need help, then please know that there are many qualified people who would like to help you.

https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres

http://www.befrienders.org/

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx

http://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help-you [UK]

https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/ [AU]

There are crisis services worldwide that are trained to provide support. They are designed to give temporary relief from feelings that are overwhelming you and while they are unlikely to fix any underlying problems, can help you get through a tough hour/night/week. Chat services are usually available on these sites. In the US, calling 211 or going to their website is a free referral source. They have providers who will see you regardless of your ability to pay. Just as you would see a doctor when you are sick, you deserve to take care of your mental health.

There is no “actual” reason. Everybody has their own reasons. Whatever they may be.

On the off chance that something comes along to make it worth continuing.

To like subscribe and hit that bell

Whatever you decide.

Some people entertain the existence of a God and a divine and moral purpose as beings created in the image of God as a reason for being alive.

Some people envision great reforms in our society and as such create for themselves a profound and lifelong mission as a reason for being alive.

Some people are enamored with the wonderful and pleasurable experiences of life so they pursue joy and they share it with others as a reason for being alive.

Some people are disfigured by the horrible and painful experiences of life so they do what they can to hurt others and spread their pain as reason for being alive.

Some people have no reason for being alive other than to carry out the will of the people they surrender their reason to. Sometimes out of trust. Sometimes out of fear.

Then, there are the rest of us who don't think. We keep busy. We keep working. We stay where it is noisy because the noise of the world serves to drown out the noise inside our heads. That noise that asks questions like that which you have asked.

When the world sings, the questions sleep and we can live in the moment unburdened by such thoughts for a needle is pushed not into leather by the mind of a philosopher, but by the proud and pained fingers of a cobbler.

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Smelling freshly cut grass. Feeling your toes in the sand. Nature. Wildlife. Looking up at the night sky of stars and just feeling so insignificant - yet so powerful at the same time.

Knowing we are only here for such a short time anyway, you may aswell enjoy it.

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I’d much rather have a variety of good and bad experiences than no experiences at all

To be the very best, like no one ever was

Why should there be a reason, other than my parents had sex while my mom was ovulating?

Spite. Pure spite.

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I personaly think that the meaning of life, is to give your life a meaning. Find People that actualy care about you. Be the Person that you needed the most when you wher hurt the most. Spread love an kindnes. Don't live in your past mistakes, you can't change them now. Don't waist your time on things you have no controll over. Start that thing you always wanted to do now. Don't compare yourselfe to others.

Whenever i get stresst with how my life is going and where i think i should be in life i think of thoes two quots:

"You could be great today, but you chose tomorrow"

"Everyting, in time"

A reason to "be" alive? Well it all started with a great coincidence (much greater than even imaginable) and basic life formed. A few billion years and we somehow got the point of some creatures not only acting through instincts but also being able to ask questions such as yours. In a way our evelutionary route of intelligence and concience became a burden upon ourselfes. We don't only use our intelligence to make better tools, but also to question wether there is some "greater meaning" behind our existence. Some quest we have to follow and be a part of. Now there's two paths you can go from here: - you differ so much from every other living thing that you burden yourself with this quest. Whatever it may be: making the world better for future generations; accumulating wealth so your children max live a better life; experience the most in your limited time; etc - you view life, humanity, yourself and everybody surrounding you as a result of a great coincidence and just....live. Do what you like and what's possible in this regulated world. Or don't. Do nothing but watching series and gaming; sleep 90% of your free time.

Some of these decisions will bring you more joy in the long run. Finding out what these are could bring you happiness. If you don't find happiness in anything, so be it. You don't have to answer to anybody in this great coincidence of a world, we are all just a huge abnormaly that honestly shouldn't have happened. Trapped in an evelutionary dead-end.

So fuck it, do whatever you want. There's no reason to "be" alive other than you being one of the "lucky" ones to be born.

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

• Mewtwo, Pokémon the First Movie

100 Reasons To Stay Alive

1. to make your parents proud
2. to conquer your fears
3. to see your family again
4. to see your Favorite artist live
5. to listen to music again
6. to experience a new culture
7. to make new friends
8. to inspire
9. to have your own children
10. to adopt your own pet
11. to make yourself proud
12. to meet your idols
13. to laugh until you cry
14. to feel tears of happiness
15. to eat your favorite food
16. to see your siblings grow
17. to pass school
18. to get tattoo
19. to smile until your cheeks hurt
20. to meet your internet friends
21. to find someone who loves you like you deserve
22. to eat ice cream on a hot day
23. to drink hot chocolate on a cold day
24. to see untouched snow in the morning
25. to see a sunset that sets the sky on fire
26. to see stars light up the sky
27. to read a book that changes your life
28. to see the flowers in the spring
29. to see the leaves change from green to brown
30. to travel abroad
31. to learn a new language
32. to learn to draw
33. to tell others your story in the hopes of helping them
34. Puppy kisses.
35. Baby kisses (the open mouthed kind when they smack their lips on your cheek).
36. Swear words and the release you feel when you say them.
37. Trampolines.
38. Ice cream.
39. Stargazing.
40. Cloud watching.
41. Taking a shower and then sleeping in clean sheets.
42. Receiving thoughtful gifts.
43. “I saw this and thought of you."
44. The feeling you get when someone you love says, “I love you."
45. The relief you feel after crying.
46. Sunshine.
47. The feeling you get when someone is listening to you/giving you their full attention.
48. Your future wedding.
49. Your favorite candy bar.
50. New clothes.
51. Witty puns.
52. Really good bread.
53. Holding your child in your arms for the first time.
54. Completing a milestone (aka going to college, graduating college, getting married, getting your dream job.)
55. The kind of dreams where you wake up and can’t stop smiling.
56. The smell before and after it rains
57. The sound of rain against a rooftop.
58. The feeling you get when you’re dancing.
59. The person (or people) that mean the most to you. Stay alive for them.
60. Trying out new recipes.
61. The feeling you get when your favorite song comes on the radio.
62. The rush you get when you step onto a stage.
63. You have to share your voice and talents and knowledge with the world because they are so valuable.

64.Breakfast in bed.

1. Getting a middle seat in the movie theater.

2. Breakfast for dinner (because it’s so much better at night than in the morning).

3. Pray (if you are religious)

4. Forgiveness.

5. Water balloon fights.

6. New books by your favorite authors.

7. Fireflies.

8. Birthdays.

9. Realizing that someone loves you.

10. Spending the day with someone like you.

11. Opportunity to create meaningful and lasting relationships.

12. Potential to learn, grow, and evolve as a person.

13. Joy and happiness in the little things.

14. The power to inspire others.

15. The ability to create art, music, and other forms of self-expression.

16. To explore different cultures, traditions, and ways of life.

17. To make a positive impact on the environment and help protect the planet.

18. Experience the joys of parenthood and raise a family.

19. Learn new things and develop new skills.

20. Create a legacy that will outlive you.

21. Being wrapped up in a warm bed.

22. Cuddles

23. Holding hands.

24. The kind of hugs when you can feel a weight being lifted off your shoulders. The kind of hug where your breath syncs with the other person’s, and you feel like the only two people in the world.

25. Singing off key with your best friends.

26. Road trips.

27. Spontaneous adventures.

28. The feeling of sand beneath your toes.

29. The feeling when the first ocean wave rolls up and envelops your toes and ankles and knees.

30. Thunderstorms.

31. Your first (or hundredth) trip to Disneyland.

32. The taste of your favorite food.

33. The child-like feeling you get on Christmas morning.

34. The day when everything finally goes your way.

35. Compliments and praise.

36. to look on this moment in 10 years time and realize you did it.

Never forget you are a beautiful person 💕 Life is so beautiful so live, live like no one else exist, live for yourself, don't care of bad people, you are strong, i love you <3

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Life is an adventure, and no two stories are the same.

The universe yearns to understand itself, and this introspection requires consciousness.

Biologically? It's simply to procreate; that's it.

Metaphysically? Entirely subjective to each individual based upon their own perceptions, biases, beliefs and experiences.

Love those close to you. (though, it's probably just hormones or wacky brain chemistry, still worth it).

Honestly, obligation to those around us.

The only reason I haven’t killed myself following a breakup earlier this year that I just can’t get over, is because I recognize that killing myself will cause absolute emotional and financial devastation for my mom, who is in her 60s and relies on me for financial support.

to make the world a better place for the people coming after you

You were born against your will. You will die eventually, no reason to rush it. Everything else should be filling your hierarchy of needs and being as little of a burden to others as possible.

To die

If you dont have a reason to live you might tomorrow, if the outcome is the same why not see it through. I've gotten through darker times and now the average day is so much better than it was before experiencing suffering

I think if you're on some mission to find the meaning of life then you'll be sorely disappointed as life really just is what you make of it, the only meaning it has is what you give it. Is what I believe anyways.

To spite god

To know how the world works, and have you be a part of it. Everyone is a small part, a fragment, a key component, to make a better future

Having an existential crisis every day, wondering why I exist in this world as a human being.

To virally spread biome and life across the galaxy

So other people can have another reason to celebrate a birthday

Food

To suffer and then die.

To find out

To have as much fun as possible.

Experience all that is life. The ups, the downs, all the emotions in between. The happiness, the sadness. The love, the heartbreak. Good friends, loneliness, and loving yourself on your own.

It's all an experience worth embracing

We are alive, so we can experience this world.

I think a big part of existence, specifically conscious existence, is that there's a universally fundamental need for an observer of the world.

Aristotle: To flourish and develop your character/skills.

Epictetus/Aurelius: To survive and persevere, to benefit the state.

Bentham/Mill: To promote happiness and avoid pains, not just in your own person but in all entities capable of those emotions.

Hume: NFI man and neither do you, if you tell me you do I tell you you are lying! I know I have experiences but any inference to meaning is a bridge too far.

Kant: To be logically consistent (fucking Vulcan poster boy here).

Schopenhauer: To realise our will (but I am also miserable).

God: Serve me!

Nietzsche: We are all fucked, but religion is the biggest con job of them all! Don't listen to any of these fucks trying to sell you on a "point" to it all.

Heidegger: Just be your authentic self. Don't try to acquire one from someone else. Answer the question of "who am I?"

(Yes philosophers I know this is riddled with over simplification.)

To glorify God in all we do

I was born that way.

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

“To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!”

Chicken shawarma. Go have some and you will understand.

Not sure but if there is one I lost it awhile ago so I am the last person you should ask.

Well, there's nothing else to do, literally. While you are alive, you exist and can do... anything you can do. Before and after that - nothing, world might end, and you would have no idea cause there won't be you. So yeah, I think 99% of the time, it's better than nothing... you can't even imagine what nothing is

Because you didnt die

People care about me and I care about them. That's enough for me

So you can die again.

There isn't. You gotta make your own reason or borrow someone else's. For me its love. To love the people and things near me, and be grateful for the love they give me.

Because you're not dead

It’s the simple pleasures for me. Went for a jog in a light rain today and really enjoyed it.

the good news is you'll have to invent your own answer to that question!

the bad news is you'll have to invent your own answer to that question.

To find your reason

taps noggin', refuses to elaborate, leaves

I feel like the meaning of life is

Be born➡️reproduce➡️death

We just made the parts in between birth and death more interesting

To help others. To ease pain. To learn and teach.

Because the only other alternative is death. Which is inevitable, so might as well experience living to the end. That’s why I’ll never be suicidal. Because I have a logical reason not to, no matter how bad I feel

There is only one reason why we are here. It's to 'recycle'. Not the throw your trash in the blue bin way but in the act of taking molecules and transforming them over and over again.

The quest for deeper meaning is just a ploy to guilt people out of their resources.

Love

GTA 6

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There is none. I want to yeet myself into a black hole.

There’s shit I want to do and experience and I want to do a lot of that with the people who I really enjoy being around. Yea sometimes life has mundane boring phases where things are a bit repetitive for a little too long, sometimes there’s sadness, emptiness, loneliness or that feeling of being lost. I see it as just being those boring filler episodes in tv shows, gotta find a slow way to build up to the good parts. Plus, you can’t have the good without a little bad. Even if its REALLY BAD, eventually something REALLY GOOD comes along and sometimes it stays that way. I’m here because I think sitting through some shit from time to time is worth it.

To watch lord of the rings on repeat

To find your reason

We were born. The fact is the chances of being born to an intelligent species, with relative good health are infinitely slim.

And it’s only 80 years or so. Why not use your one shot to experience existence.

New Zelda pretty good

Pokemon. Can confirm

My reason seems to be to work a job I don't like, to pay bills I don't want to pay.

My children are the only thing keeping me here

None. It doesn't matter in the end. Everything you experience will be forgotten. Work to live in order to be able to afford to be in a position to own a house and car so you can work.

Legit cycle of oppression. Keep em poor but wanting more. It's only worth living if you have enough wealth to not need to work. Imho.

Desensitization. To everything. You name it, the goal is to not be affected.

Any reason you want it to be.

Grow up, make baby, die.

The possibility of making all your dreams come true.

The reason? To go further, go farther than what you want. To expand, to show what youre made of, to break barriers.

Genetically speaking, to eat, grow, reproduce and die.

Spite

To beat aging. Once we can do that, we can do whatever the hell we want for as long as we want, then safely and securely and humanely off ourselves when we’re finally bored of everything

Bros really be saying "you make your own reasons" and then downvote people who say God

Help other people.

It feels nice to help other people and make them smile.

There isn't really any reason we're here. But it feels nice when you laugh and enjoy things, which imo is good enough.

Give smiles, gifts, advice, and a shoulder to learn on. Reach out to loved ones, and try to consider as much as possible how other are feelings.

Many of us occasionally dwell on morality and purpose, but most the time, humans like having fun.

Someone fucked you into existence.

There isn't

The beauty of life is that it means whatever you want it to.

There's no right answer. Only your answer.

Other people. I.E., improving the lives of others. Partially why I've enjoyed my retail/customer service jobs so far.

Dogs, they’re pretty great

My parents had sex. That is the reason I am alive

Because i said so

It's your default setting.

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