Whats keeping you going?

[GammaRae]

I'm new, I posted an introductory in the designated area.. :biggrin:

I'm curious, whats keeping you going? If you had to pick up to three things what are your major motivators for living? What are the hopes or reasons you keep hanging on?

I do think everyone has to have at least one thing preventing their suicide.
I see most here including myself have made attemps but what is your reason for not persisting?

My reasons are the following

1- My boyfriend. I know it sounds cliche and young and dumb but sometimes I feel like he's my only reason. We've been together for two years but he was my best friend all through highschool... I know he needs me as much as I need him and I hate hurting him.

2- Odd as it sounds, the idea of being a mother one day. Being a mommy one day was something I have always wanted... even though I often doubt I'd be any better at that than everything else I'm no good at...

3- The hope of being able to move away one day and be somewhere new.. maybe theres somewhere I could be happy.

 

[andyc68]

nothing at the moment:unsure:

 

[~Claire]

My reasons are the following

1- My boyfriend. I know it sounds cliche and young and dumb but sometimes I feel like he's my only reason. We've been together for two years but he was my best friend all through highschool... I know he needs me as much as I need him and I hate hurting him.

2- Odd as it sounds, the idea of being a mother one day. Being a mommy one day was something I have always wanted... even though I often doubt I'd be any better at that than everything else I'm no good at...

3- The hope of being able to move away one day and be somewhere new.. maybe theres somewhere I could be happy.

Those are really good reasons hun, if ever you're feeling low come back to this & remind yourself of them :hug:.

 

[~Claire]

nothing at the moment:unsure:

There is hun, you know there is :console:.

 

[GammaRae]

Those are really good reasons hun, if ever you're feeling low come back to this & remind yourself of them :hug:.

Thanks, although at the worst moments I always find reasons why they're invalid or selfish or stupid.


Also, answers from anyone else don't have to be as positive as mine were.. even simple things like fear of physical pain or religious beliefs would count too. I was just curious whats keeping everyone else around.

<3

 

[wheresmysheep]

i honestly dont know, probably delusions.

 

[Winslow]

Outcast as I am, what keeps me going is the constant remembrance of all the sacrifices that a loved one made for me.

 

[aoeu]

Nothing. I refuse to fight anymore... I don't know what I'm waiting for.

 

[Oni]

1. Future plans/perspective... while others would call it hope
2. Future plans/perspective
3. Future plans/perspective

 

[The_Discarded]

haha

nevermind

 

[Dom_12]

I can only think of two reasons and they are that one day i will find someone who makes me happy and that at the end of the day life is what we make of it.

 

[worlds edge]

Here's a couple of old threads that discuss this topic. My answer is pretty much the same on both, but there're some interesting thoughts in what others posted.

http://www.suicideforum.com/showthread.php?t=48609

http://www.suicideforum.com/showthread.php?t=42333

 

[astella]

Nothing is. If I could kill myself without the risk of surviving or feeling pain, I'd be dead by now. I want to die so much. I feel so horrible.

 

[plates]

i like being alive, i just can't deal with the shit that comes with it (and i've gone through a lot of that). if i didn't like being alive i'd be dead a long long while ago cos, i've been near death for a long time.

 

[Scum]

I stay through sheer bloody mindedness. I have fought so hard so far, why should I throw it all away. I should have died at the start, but I didn't. Now I'm just plain awkward.

 

[wastedmylife]

wondering if I should kill other people before I kill myself

 

[Stranger1]

1) My daughter and grandaughter
2)My friends here at the forum
3)the fact that I have worked so hard to get to the stage I am at now,(would be a waste to throw it all away now).

 

[GammaRae]

Here's a couple of old threads that discuss this topic. My answer is pretty much the same on both, but there're some interesting thoughts in what others posted.

http://www.suicideforum.com/showthread.php?t=48609

http://www.suicideforum.com/showthread.php?t=42333

Sorry, if this was an overdone thread! Being new I didn't know..

Thanks, I read the old ones and they were interesting/helpful.

I was just genuinely curious about other people besides me.

 

[aki]

music, art, my family.

 

[Aaron]

At the moment I have no idea, I really don't.