Facepunch, what are your greatest motivations in life? - General

What makes you wake up in the morning and makes you go "I gotta do this, and I want to do this", why are you alive, and what do you plan on doing with your lives? Please share your stories and thoughts, even if you are depressed, you don't have to go too personal if you don't want to.

Emotions

The small moments of happiness in my daily life.

I do things because it is expected of me to. And so I don't end up waking up on the streets, face first in a puddle of my own urine. Or dying. I want to live a happy and satisfactory life and that's why I put up with everything and do things. Right now my biggest motivator is to make the gf happy.

i want to see how the world changes through my life, i want to see what it looks like in 60 years, good or bad.

I just want a house, a stable job, and a family. I am motivated to do whatever it takes to get there. I don't care about my own happiness. In each and every moment, I feel euphoria.

Running

Friends

gotta get those funnies

money and material things

Just kinda trucking along at the moment trying to find purpose. Only thing that's keeping me from just cutting things off is the hope that things will improve enough such that I'm comfortable and no longer question why I'm still trying or what it even is I'm trying for.

Four walls and adobe slabs for my girls.

I don't really care all that much about money or living in a house, but what I do care about is talent and I don't find a life where I haven't created or done shit to be just, unacceptable. One of my fears is looking back on my life and realizing that I fucked up and didn't do anything I wanted to do in exchange for a boring middle class life sucking up entertainment. I also want people to look back in history and know who I was. As for right now, the only thing that motivates me to do anything is my girlfriend and doing everything I can to live with her. If I didn't have her I'd have killed myself years ago.

My only motivation is that I dont want to upset the people closest to me.

My motivation is to rise above humanity's sins.

Right now I want to eat lots of bread and grow a beard.

I don't really have any motivation to get through life anymore, but I haven't killed myself because I've developed a strict code that I'll not be the person that takes my life, and that I can't kill myself through inaction.

My hatred towards people that look down on me

FOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

Pretty much the only thing that has kept me from offing myself is my friends and family. So I guess my motivation in life is to not cause life destroying grief to people that care about me.

The ability to better myself. But, this is relating to a fine tooth comb, and not a broad brush - bordering on the myopic.

Wanting to be better off than that when I was a kid. Having a house, solid income, family, and keeping the friends I have. I wouldn't want my kids to endure the hell I had when I was a kid.

The biggest motivator for my life is specifically the ones that often trip up other people into depression or nihilism. The fact that there is no intrinsic value to anything, the fact that there is nothing after we die, the fact that success is so insanely subjective, the lessened importance of ego or truly being right, the fact that I could die within any second of the day... For some people that's super scary, super daunting, or whatever. For me, it inspires taking it easy. I'm already here, so might as well just try new things and see if they work. If they don't, oh well. Not a big deal. Start over. Or don't. It all boils down to the fact that I really don't have to do anything, which makes me want to try a lot of things and look behind the curtain. It's eased my fears and allowed me to stop giving a shit about societal hierarchies and what not. It's given me the mental ability of not expending too much thought on people who are either trying to fuck with me or don't expend equal amounts of energy on me. Nothing matters, so I make what I want matter.

To live above 100 and see my great great grandchildren.

don't really have any life goals or motivations right now, or for the past few years either i just drone about my life and see what happens

instinct of self-preservation? also there's always tomorrow

I want to have a family of my own and tell terrible dad jokes and spend more time with my kids than my parents could with me

Become a well known example in the medical world.

I don't want to let my dreams stay dreams forever.

Food