| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/16/2008 5:05:37 PM | Seems there's only one thread (that I could find) on this subject, but it was in off-topic & nearly 3 years old (plus the subject wasn't taken very seriously). Would've thought it a more spiritual topic, but philosophy next best thing (and still valid, I figure?). If there's a need to put it elsewhere, so be it. Anyways.....
What's your drive for life ?
I imagine for many it would be their kids, their work/jobs, possibly their spouse, their religion, a hobby perhaps, or have their hopes in winning lotto/money, next pay cheque/check, a goal of some sort. Anyone get their drive for life elsewhere? Anyone who doesn't have a drive for life, a passion/reason for living etc?
And if so, on either count, why?
Personally: no kids, no spouse, so no drive for life there, plus I'm quite happy on my own. I have work and some hobbies though, that keep my drive/interest, mainly the hobbies. But I can see why people may get bored/tired with life.
So just wondering to gauge others perspectives on this line of thinking.
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/16/2008 6:25:23 PM | | Soul development. All of life is just lessons. I'm doin' my best to hit the next level of play....and not hit "reset". | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/16/2008 6:35:49 PM |
What's your drive for life ?
It would be the exploration of the unlimited nature of human consciousness to experience unconditional love, unity and lasting joy. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:30:41 PM | yup to all of the above from both posts!
and said so completely!!
might just add, exploration of all consciousness, not just human....and also, op, i expect it will be my drive for 'death' too when it approaches. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 8:39:08 PM | | Remembering it's temporary but can be beautiful... And that we're all together Now. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/16/2008 9:11:14 PM |
What's your drive for life ?
I think what I'm going to say what has been said already, but I will use different words so it appears different. 
Basically answers to questions like: What am I? Why am I here? Where is here? Why do anything? | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/16/2008 10:56:17 PM | What's my drive for life?
Well aside from the obvious of wanting to find someone and have a family, etc...
The answer to your question is easy for me, my drive for life is...life itself. I view life as a continuous process of learning and growing. Expanding one's understanding of self, others around them, and of the world at large. I strive to learn something new everyday, I seek knowledge. The more I learn, the more I want to learn. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/17/2008 1:54:00 AM | | Doing my time honourably with the heartening belief it isn't going to last forever. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/17/2008 8:21:13 AM | Being able to put people under hypnosis and regressing them to past life times, interesting results is often stated and the end of their journeys through those life times. I ask them once they pass through that death again, "and what was the meaning of that life and what did you learn from it?" Usually that life experience can be summed up into one or two sentences.
Therefore, try to accomplish your hearts desire. If you fail, at least you tried. Do not go to your grave unfulfilled. And, from my experience, unconditional love is the thread of life to the greater Absolute (God) and the eternal connection of love (to one another) that goes beyond death. Chose your passage wisely.
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/18/2008 5:51:29 PM | | Great answer Praetor, I think much the same, we're here to learn and to make a difference before our time is up. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/19/2008 11:30:30 PM | I am swimming upstream in the POF genepool/river so I can spawn and die and fertilize the forest. What else is a fishy to do?
Karmically I hope to advance and reincarnate as a superior. I wonder if that will be a bald eagle or the planet pluto?
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/20/2008 6:14:51 AM | | Wonderful posts, Living Dharma, Stonestongue, and Praetor-V! Amen to all three and I'll add that I look forward to each day's moments of beauty, insight, experience. Even if one hasn't grand goals in sight, there are always magical moments to enjoy. It becomes easy to overlook the tiny treasures in life; when you give yourself the gift of mindfulness, you take time to notice the blossom, sunrise, smile on a stranger's face - and give thanks for being alive. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/20/2008 12:57:09 PM | | Ditto, but I hope to be eaten by a bear and then let it fertilize the forest with me. Live dangerously and feed those bears. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/20/2008 3:16:20 PM | | I'm amazed nobody has mentioned money, as if it's a dirty word. I want to do what interests me, while making as much money as possible doing it. Money equals freedom to pursue your own interests, to travel, and all the other bonuses that come with it. :-) | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/20/2008 4:06:27 PM | | I pass my time coming to grips with the total impermanence of life. Every ending is a new beginning. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/20/2008 7:15:20 PM |
Every ending is a new beginning.
Apart from that ending that really means the end, the big full stop, zip, game over, dead :-) | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/20/2008 9:28:11 PM | Live my life to the fullest and best of my abilities.
Bump as few elbows as possible.
Die doing something I love and enjoy, don't die old, crippled, and cancer-ridden.
Make a serious effort to contribute to the betterment of mankind, either by raising great children or personally making a difference.
Be the best person that I can be at all times... even in difficult times. (hardest one)
That's about it.
--Brandon | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/4/2009 6:50:16 AM | | My passion is to experiance life in all its wonder and my drive is spiritual growth. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2009 9:59:25 AM | What's my drive for life?
"I" just sorta found my"self" here & figured "I" might as well enjoy it while it lasts. In the process of doing so, I learned that life basically sucks for most people (and I've often included myself in that group), but my insatiable curiousity about the world that I live in has always kept me going. I've been a student of the world all my life, studying the nature of just about everything in my quest to make sense of it all.
What's the greatest lesson?...learning that "I" don't really exist but find my"self" here anyway, enjoying every breath it takes as long as the breathing continues. (and that the secret of happiness is no secret at all. It is compassion and doing for others.) | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/4/2009 1:55:18 PM | To whittle my beaks so thin, that they can be plowed into oblivion, pried open, and reveal the 'auspicious incantation'.
Seriously though. I'm just living to learn, laugh, and lunge around.  | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/4/2009 3:23:27 PM | | I found my calling when reading a comic book that was for teaching statistics to people like myself who found the subject loathsome when taught normally. It explained that you can sample data and by analyzing it in different ways come up with a view of the thing in question that helps you make incorrect assumptions easier and that sound scientific. That got me thinking about knowledge, how for any given subject and application there will be ideas that are more or less apt, had by different people, ranging from extremes to some average, making any given idea a data point in the distribution of all ideas. From there I realized that for every really great idea there would also be all those other ideas that were not so great. In statistical terms, unless all ideas are equally great, some will not be, and so for there to be any great ideas it follows that there must also be really bad ideas. I knew that I could not have the great ones so I decided that I could help by having as many of the bad ones as I could. By having the bad ones I am claiming those data points in the distribution, which means someone else doesn't have to. This relieves those who can have great ideas from wasting time having bad ones. I am doing what I can to provide the below average material that must exist for the above average to be better than. If not for some of my stupidest ideas, someone else would not have had their better idea, as they would have been statistically destined to conform to the pattern of idea distribution, thinking in ways less grand, and to no purpose other than dismal probability. It's thankless work but I find it to be rewarding. Whenever I read a great new idea I take some satisfaction knowing that I played a small part in increasing the likelihood of that idea being had by someone more capable than myself. We all have our parts to play. | |
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| What's your drive for life ?
Posted: 4/4/2009 5:10:42 PM | Right now it looks like it is going to be a 95 Corolla.
It would be the exploration of the unlimited nature of human consciousness to experience unconditional love, unity and lasting joy.
I'm saving that for a later incarnation. | |
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