What's Your Purpose?

[McKenna]

What's your reason for getting out of bed each morning? Your purpose for putting one foot in front of another? Your motivation to keep going day after day?

It's that easy and that complex a question. I want to know what your purpose is, 'cause I think I've forgotten my own.




P.S. I have to leave for work in a few, but I'll check this thread when I return and respond appropriately. Give me some feedback folks! I want to hear from you.

 

[rgraham666]

I get out of bed because I'm happy to be alive and reasonably sentient.

There was a time in my life where the latter state wasn't true and I came very close to making the first state untrue.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

To see what happens next.

I hate to be the person to leave a party to pick up a provision that was forgotten because I might miss something.

I hate leaving a party early because I might miss something.

Every time I leave the house I have the hopes that I will meet someone knew and exciting, or at the very least young, attractive, and interested in me

I live each day as if today could be the day that not only does my life changes completely, but the entire world could as well. I may be in a rut, but I am always wondering when the world will break that, and its own ruts as well.

 

[Vermilion]

Because I won't let my poor health win. I get out of bed to prove that I can...

I guess that would make determination/stubborness/pride my reasons.

Although I do have rare and lovely days where I bounce out of bed because the day looks beautiful, there are things to look forward to and I can't wait to get on with the day. Those are few and far between, however.

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[impressive]

I live each day as if today could be the day that not only does my life changes completely, but the entire world could as well.

I take your reactive statement and tweak it to apply to my proactive bent thusly:

I live each day as if today could be the day that not only do I change my life completely but the entire world's as well.

However, I'm not saying that's my "purpose." I gotta let that one simmer a bit.

 

[TxRad]

At some points my purpose is to be a bad example for everyone else.

At some points it seems that my purpose is only to work.

At some points it seems not to have a point.

Sometimes, I just want to see what happens next. Looking back, I can't believe some of the things that have already happened.

Sometimes, like you, I forget the point and the purpose. That's when I smile as I think of the alternative to not getting up, to giving up. I can't let the dark side and the idiots win.

Hang in there kiddo and remember, if you're not having fun then you're doing something wrong.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I take your reactive statement and tweak it to apply to my proactive bent thusly:

I live each day as if today could be the day that not only do I change my life completely but the entire world's as well.

However, I'm not saying that's my "purpose." I gotta let that one simmer a bit.

I'm more of an observer, or voyer than, I suppose

 

[oggbashan]

Helping my community.

Enjoying my granddaughter while she's very young.

Looking to see or do something new every day and looking to see and do the things I enjoy everyday.

Opening my curtains and seeing the sea.

Og

 

[The_Fool]

What's your reason for getting out of bed each morning? Your purpose for putting one foot in front of another? Your motivation to keep going day after day?

It's that easy and that complex a question. I want to know what your purpose is, 'cause I think I've forgotten my own.




P.S. I have to leave for work in a few, but I'll check this thread when I return and respond appropriately. Give me some feedback folks! I want to hear from you.

To irritate you...

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I live to give. I think its messed up sometimes and I'm not sure how I got to this point, but to be honest, I get up and move knowing that I will spend that day helping others, giving to people, giving out more than I take in.

 

[damppanties]

I live to give. I think its messed up sometimes and I'm not sure how I got to this point, but to be honest, I get up and move knowing that I will spend that day helping others, giving to people, giving out more than I take in.

That.

And, for the sense of satisfaction I get when I achieve something in my own little way. I set myself daily goals and I set out to achieve them. I don't always get around to them all, but I know when I'm slacking off and I choose to rather than letting 'it' happen.

All this is after two years of taking off from life, where I wasn't doing anything for myself or others so don't know how helpful it is.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Because I might miss out on something beautiful.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

My purpose is to prove to the world that I'm a stubborn little shit. One that won't give up - at least not for long.

Sometimes things happen and it takes a day or three to break out of whatever shook the foundations of my little world, but there's always the drive to get back up again and beat the piss out of whatever did it. It works.

 

[Edward Teach]

I don't know that I have a purpose any more. I used to be heavily involved with youth and civic organizations but I gave that up.

To have a purpose might be nice. I dunno.

Right now, I just have a lot of people depending on me and that keeps me going.

Interesting thread.

 

[3113]

What's your reason for getting out of bed each morning?

I've got no reason at all. My cat on the other hand won't let me stay in bed. Her reason for getting me up is that I'm the one with thumbs and access to the food bin. So I'm damn well going to be pushed out of bed even if she has to use every ounce of strength in her little noggin to shove me out

I'd probably say in bed all day long if not for the cat. She's very persistent and persuasive.

Your motivation to keep going day after day?

I do have some faint hope of taking over the world or discovering I now have superpowers. That sometimes keeps me going.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

My kids are my purpose in life.

 

[THROBBS]

Wonderful question to ask and ponder!

Discovery.

I am running down a dream that never would come to me, I am working on a mystery. ~Tom Petty

 

[LoquaciousLady]

My motivation is to make them pay, to prove them wrong, to be a living monument of their regrets.

Or, to put it another way, I'm stubborn and contrary and that keeps me moving out of sheer meanness.

As for why I get out of bed in the mornings, that's another story. I get out of bed in the mornings because occasionally in my sleep-fog I become convinced that God is unable to make coffee on his own. That persistent voice muttering "Go make the coffee" confuses me enough to get up and get moving before I wake up enough to realize that it's not a mission from God, just a request from the equally bleary hubs.

 

[impressive]

My kids are my purpose in life.

I thought about answering this way, but it's an incomplete answer.

My purpose is to make a difference -- a positive difference -- and my kids definitely play a role in that.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

God wants me to bring all you sick, twisted, progressives back home to the GOP. So I come here and do missionary work.

 

[oggbashan]

God wants me to bring all you sick, twisted, progressives back home to the GOP. So I come here and do missionary work.

Sorry. I'm not eligible to join the GOP.

I'm a national of another country and our equivalent political party would be regarded by the GOP as pinkos...

As for the other UK parties? They must be red and redder.

Og

 

[Belegon]

While I certainly could say that my kids were my purpose and have it match with all the criteria...

What's your reason for getting out of bed each morning? Your purpose for putting one foot in front of another? Your motivation to keep going day after day?

...I think mine has to be creating happiness. The thing that will motivate me the most to do the craziest things is causing a laugh and a smile. I want to be responsible for my children, but that's about clothes and shelter. What I live for is the way my daughter squeezes my hand when we walk into the ice cream shop.

I live to replicate that feeling. From my kids yes, but not only from them.

I just love feeling like I'm making a positive impact. I want to be somebody's hero.

 

[The_Fractal_King]

I like learning new things, no matter how minor or insignifcant. Having an obsession is a nice motivation if nothing else.

 

[rgraham666]

God wants me to bring all you sick, twisted, progressives back home to the GOP. So I come here and do missionary work.

For some reason I don't think the GOP is going to thank you.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

My purpose is to make a few people happy. I get greater joy and satisfaction from that than anything else.