What Keeps You Going?

[Debater Slayer]

We all have good, bad, and neutral experiences. The most common factor in all of them is that they eventually pass.

When the going gets toughest, though, what keeps you going? What are the reasons you push through even when life seems to be at its most difficult?

 

[Alien826]

Metamucil.

Sorry, jokes are part of the answer. Humor keeps me going, often by pointing out how inconsequential my current worries are.

Otherwise "This too shall pass".

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

We all have good, bad, and neutral experiences. The most common factor in all of them is that they eventually pass.

When the going gets toughest, though, what keeps you going? What are the reasons you push through even when life seems to be at its most difficult?

Although I can't really explain it, I'm at my best when things look bleak, and the adrenaline kicks in and I have this inner Winston Churchill which comes out.

 

[Rival]

God. My boyfriend. Tea (no, it does).

 

[ChristineM]

Family. Just about everything I've done has been for family. Not quite everything but most things.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

We all have good, bad, and neutral experiences. The most common factor in all of them is that they eventually pass.

When the going gets toughest, though, what keeps you going? What are the reasons you push through even when life seems to be at its most difficult?

Family.

 

[URAVIP2ME]

......When the going gets toughest, though, what keeps you going? What are the reasons you push through even when life seems to be at its most difficult?

Answer for me: www.jw.org

 

[VoidCat]

Spite. Im not letting those who hurt me in the past or my own brain chemistry win.

 

[loverofhumanity]

The one thing that keeps my heart beating is the hope that one day the world will awaken and start loving one another.

I feel just so sad seeing people have no feeling, just dropping bombs on one another, committing genocide and killing the innocent. It’s a madness. We are all one human family. We need to make each other happy, feed the poor and look out for each other.

I know that one day our innate goodness will surface and peace will reign.

So I do whatever I can to spread love and that we are all one believing that light always defeats darkness.

 

[Vinayaka]

Although I can't really explain it, I'm at my best when things look bleak, and the adrenaline kicks in and I have this inner Winston Churchill which comes out.

I ponder how common that is. For example, it seems that at funerals there's always this one person who steps up to the the plate and becomes the rock in which everyone else leans on for a couple of weeks. (In my experience and observation)

 

[Debater Slayer]

God. My boyfriend. Tea (no, it does).

If you stop to have a cup of tea, does it keep you going or distract you?

(See more philosophical questions in my upcoming book Useless Ponderings 101.)

 

[Debater Slayer]

Family. Just about everything I've done has been for family. Not quite everything but most things.

Family.

Your families are lucky.

 

[Rival]

If you stop to have a cup of tea, does it keep you going or distract you?

(See more philosophical questions in my upcoming book Useless Ponderings 101.)

Tea is a literal taste of normality that brings with it strong emotional senses of wellbeing. It keeps one going.

 

[VoidCat]

Also stuffed animals and the pursuit of knowledge and hope.

 

[Vinayaka]

We all have good, bad, and neutral experiences. The most common factor in all of them is that they eventually pass.

When the going gets toughest, though, what keeps you going? What are the reasons you push through even when life seems to be at its most difficult?

Personally, lots of things. My Guru taught the affirmation 'I'm all right right now." That covers most of it. When it didn't, sadly I had to lean on my dear wife. Many folks don't know how they'll cope for lack of experience.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Although I can't really explain it, I'm at my best when things look bleak, and the adrenaline kicks in and I have this inner Winston Churchill which comes out.

That must be when you can beat all Seven Dwarfs at once.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Tea is a literal taste of normality that brings with it strong emotional senses of wellbeing. It keeps one going.

For me, that would be coffee, although I appreciate tea as well.

(Fried chicken also has this effect!)

 

[Debater Slayer]

Answer for me: www.jw.org

I'm happy for you that your path suits you so much.

 

[Vinayaka]

Also stuffed animals and the pursuit of knowledge and hope.

When I was a guidance counsellor, we had a collection of stuffed animals, and they got used more than once.

 

[Debater Slayer]

The one thing that keeps my heart beating is the hope that one day the world will awaken and start loving one another.

I feel just so sad seeing people have no feeling, just dropping bombs on one another, committing genocide and killing the innocent. It’s a madness. We are all one human family. We need to make each other happy, feed the poor and look out for each other.

I know that one day our innate goodness will surface and peace will reign.

So I do whatever I can to spread love and that we are all one believing that light always defeats darkness.

You could certainly do a lot worse than that! I wish you the best with your efforts.