Reasons to be Alive
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
For Willem: Just a few beautiful reminders of why we're all here...
For the rest of us: I think these, as a whole, apply to all of us. Want to add to this? Try this forum.
- So you can one day be a mother/father
- to see another rainbow
- to see another spring
- Listening to waterfall, thinking about the water.
- Change
- Faith
- Hope
- Charity
- Glitter
- Meteor Showers
- Friendship
- Music
- Okapi
- Purple Gallinules
- Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters
- a warm bed
- the smell of fresh baked bread
- good books
- good ideas
- good people
- love
- the universe
- universal love
- international communication
- lychees
- hugs
- other people (known and unknown)
- warm cookies
- beauty, wherever you may find it
- playing music, as well as listening to it
- Painting
- Writing
- Learning!!!
- Warm spring days
- The first rain of the season
- Christmas
- Your birthday
- All the good you are going to do for the world!
- purplejenny
- the Shee
- sea
- h2g2
- photographing
- forests
- walking on the beach
- letters
- fruit
- light
- everyone who's touched your life
- everyone whose life *you've* touched
- WLC
- reggabwoW
- hugs, both real and here, giving and receiving
- kidz who love unkl willi, who loves them right back
- all the beautiful animals in the world
- music
- all the diverse cultures in the world - someday you should see them all!
- The strongest reason to stay alive is that no one knows what the future will bring. There may be some bad things you have to deal with, but there will be many truly wonderful things, things you never expected or imagined, but will really love. And these things will only unfold in their own time.
- Another reason to stick around is to spare others the grief and guilt of being survivors. No one who has a friend or relative die like that ever completely gets over it. Why cause PTSD for someone else, especially our family?
- Our pets. They love us and need us.
- To avoid violence. Suicide is not a peaceful escape, it is an act of violence. It is strange that people that would never hurt another person ever, can contemplate hurting themselves. To reject hurting oneself is to affirm peace in this world.
- a purring cat in your lap on a cold winter night (or any night for that matter)
- hot cocoa and marshmallows
- sunsets
- a child's laughter
- art, and making art
- oversized tee-shirts and warm fuzzy sweatpants
- anyone who *gets it* and doesn't mind you for it
- JEllen
- Shee
- Chris
- Typos [when you try to put the number '8' next to a ')' = ]
- Star Wars Episode II comes out in May
- Lord Of The Rings II comes out next year
- Episode III and
- Lord Of The Rings III should be out sometime after that, then there's Episodes
- VII
- VIII and
- IX
- The kindness of strangers (a constant, believe me)
- To fulfill your mission
- Drifting
- Luck
- Existence
- Joy
- karaoke
- finding seashells
- remembering where you left your car keys
- a blank canvas and loads of paint
- dirty jokes
- teddy bears
- lava lamps
- buttery popcorn at the movies
- baby feet
- an afternoon trip to the museum and getting the guard to let you run your fingers along a priceless painting (true story)
- hot showers
- being in a darkroom developing photographs and seeing the magick as it happens
- hot vanilla cappucino
- warm bisquits with butter and honey
- windchimes during a thunderstorm
- Getting to know new friends
- The smell of the pavement after it rains...