What is Good about Life and living???

[think]

OK< the reason this did not post in tnz is that... this, is sorta a non-controversial question not like what political party do you like.

so there I was posting this question out at FB and what overwhelming response when happier I would be with that lone f-off,..

but next to sex-drugs-rock&roll, nothing could stand up in the list there maybe whisky or just sex alone.. babies was an interesting misjudgment of course it could of been the whisky that caused that.

For me I have a solid base in the fact that ... Life is suffering... and that first is bad then good then bad but neither both either or.... so way out in left field this question can go because everything that is Good about life ,,,, is also bad about life. IDK but all the propaganda that positive people like to fake till they think it is true I just mean I will not lie any more except when writing fiction then it is fiction right?

on and on or in or out then on but what is Good about anything? What is Good,,, and how is nothing or less then nothing anymore real then anything else is real. ok---time for some input or so I Think?

 

[Amaris]

Life means being alive. The alternative is generally undesired. Aside from that, it's what you make of it.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm having a cup of tea right now, it's pretty damn good.

 

[SPCTRE]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtS46Wfsxnw[/yt]

 

[rhubarbodendron]

what's good about life is not being dead.
Ok, that sounds very commonplace and a bit tongue-in-cheek but I'm actually quite serious about it. I'm an atheist and imo there's no life after death. So I attempt to make the best of these 75+ years I might have. I know firsthand about war, torture, bullying, illness, poverty, loss of loved ones. But still I am convinced that the shittiest life is a good deal better than being dead.
There are so many wonderful things about life that I simply don't want to miss; big and small ones: velvety summernight skies, blackbirds singing at dusk, the first butterfly in spring (watch out for it: if it's a dark one it'll be a bad year, if it's a bright coloured one it'll be a good year. Yellow counts as gold and is best =) ), someone laughing, a good book, the scent of apple blossoms, a flock of wild geese drawing a huge V in the sky, the tiny water-bat that hunts for moths over my terrace every evening in summer, the hissing sound of falling snow, the glorious colours of a forrest in autumn, the butterflies in your stomach when the person you love smiles at you. Or just the triumph you feel when you finally solved the particularly difficult crossword that has been vexing you for days.
Giving all this up is just unthinkable to me. I'm totally in love with life.

 

[Melakon]

Life means being alive. The alternative is generally undesired. Aside from that, it's what you make of it.

Yeah. My life took a major downturn in 1990 after being injured in an accident and then getting caught in a company layoff 6 months later. Two weeks after tnat I turned 40. Ten years after that I had a stroke and I've been on permanent disability since. The last 25 years have not been much fun at all, but it's still better than the alternative.

 

[Amaris]

Life means being alive. The alternative is generally undesired. Aside from that, it's what you make of it.

Yeah. My life took a major downturn in 1990 after being injured in an accident and then getting caught in a company layoff 6 months later. Ten years after that I had a stroke and I've been on permanent disability since. But it's still better than the alternative.

Indeed. Even on my worst day, the alternative is most certainly worth avoiding.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The things that are good about life and living are endless. Sunrises and sunsets, the smell of honeysuckle and old-growth forest, the taste of tea and cinnamon, the sound of birds singing and the surf on the beach. Friends and family. Beauty and sexuality. The arts and sciences. Creation and discovery. All the myriad elements of being human. Writing a story or a poem, or drawing a cartoon, makes life worth living. Listening to old music from childhood or discovering something brand new that somebody has just created. Watching the discoveries come in from Kepler and the Mars rovers. Knowing that probes are about to reach Pluto and Ceres. Exploring the nooks and crannies of the Internet and finding hundreds of obscure movies and pulp stories that I never knew existed. Meeting wonderful, creative people on the Internet who are using the advantages of the 21st century to bring their new stories and art and music and movies to the world. Sitting around with my siblings and mother and laughing the hours away.

Life is infinitely wonderful. Without it, the universe would just be a web of particles and forces. Our ability to perceive is what turns mere existence into wonderment.

 

[Amaris]

Also sex. You mentioned it, but I'd really like to highlight the sex part.

 

[Melakon]

One of the most important things is to never lose one's sense of humor about oneself, even in the seemingly worst situations.

Like the fact that I haven't had sex in almost 20 years.

 

[bbjeg]

...Even on my worst day, the alternative is most certainly worth avoiding.

This.

 

[bbailey861]

...Even on my worst day, the alternative is most certainly worth avoiding.

This.

Absolutely. This.

 

[auntiehill]

Let me see.....existing or not existing? To be or not to be?

Think I'll stick with the first option. At least that has possibility of having changing circumstances; life is always changing. You can't change dead.

 

[galleywest]

C'mon people! You call yourselves a sci-fi board?! Fine, I'll do it:

"Conan! What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women."

 

[KimMH]

Life means being alive. The alternative is generally undesired. Aside from that, it's what you make of it.

Yeah. My life took a major downturn in 1990 after being injured in an accident and then getting caught in a company layoff 6 months later. Two weeks after tnat I turned 40. Ten years after that I had a stroke and I've been on permanent disability since. The last 25 years have not been much fun at all, but it's still better than the alternative.

Agreed to both.

Knowing what the whole point to life IS might make it less interesting; to boot.

If you must - make a mission for yourself. Like "Leave the place a better place than you found it." Or "Give better than you get."

 

[think]

ok I feel if God wants me on the other side I am there hands down. We know life is sucky... lots of ruff things that happen all the time to everyone ... like people die their lives end - stop finish = this is a "good" thing!! so for me I will have to wait for this end.. that is where I am, waiting for the end.. and suffering with flashbacks to bad memories that get worse in the night as i sleep..night terrors etc... you know..life is IMO not better then any alternative or "good" sexual encounter or creation. --- IMO..

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Because you can't feel or do anything when you're dead... at least if I am alive I have a chance to do things that make me happy and that feel good.

 

[urbandefault]

We just buried my brother-in-law who was 3 years younger than me. My sister is still in shock, but she's strong. She'll survive.

Three years ago my cousin lost his only daughter. She was 23. He's still devastated. I saw him at the funeral the other day and it was all he could do to hold himself together.

My mother lost her husband about nine years ago. She pretends that she's ok, but the pain is all over her face.

My wife's father left us just over a year ago. The family is still trying to deal with that, and now her mother's health is failing.

Dad lives alone, and had a heart attack about three months ago. He could very easily have died before help arrived.

With all of this, and more that I won't go into, everyone still gets out of bed and finds a way to go on another day.

I guess what I'm getting at is no matter what life hands you, as long as you wake up breathing it's a pretty good day. The only really bad day is the one where you don't. And we don't know for sure what happens after that.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

We just buried my brother-in-law who was 3 years younger than me. My sister is still in shock, but she's strong. She'll survive.

Three years ago my cousin lost his only daughter. She was 23. He's still devastated. I saw him at the funeral the other day and it was all he could do to hold himself together.

My mother lost her husband about nine years ago. She pretends that she's ok, but the pain is all over her face.

My wife's father left us just over a year ago. The family is still trying to deal with that, and now her mother's health is failing.

Dad lives alone, and had a heart attack about three months ago. He could very easily have died before help arrived.

With all of this, and more that I won't go into, everyone still gets out of bed and finds a way to go on another day.

I guess what I'm getting at is no matter what life hands you, as long as you wake up breathing it's a pretty good day. The only really bad day is the one where you don't. And we don't know for sure what happens after that.

::slow clap::

Totally agree and that was awesome.

 

[Miss Chicken]

The way to enjoy life more is not to expect too much.

Most of my friends complain about their lack of money but as they and myself are wealthier than at least 80-90% of the world's population I think we should be grateful for that.

I have a roof over my head, shelves full of books to read, food in my cupboards, access to the Internet etc.

Over the years I have lost family and friends including the three closest friends I ever had. One of them died (Susan) when we were 11, the other two died when they were 37 and 52. Whenever I start to feel down about my age and how I only have maybe 20 or 25 years left I think of Susan and realise I have now had 45 more years of life than she did. I should be grateful for those years.

I am often in pain which gets me down but it would be far worse if I was living in a third world country with my health problem - so I should be grateful that I was lucky enough to be born here.