What Matters?

[Dirtybird12]

<p><font size="2">have you ever felt like nothing really matters?</font></p><p><font size="2">almost numb to everything?</font></p><p><font size="2">What is it that drives you?</font></p><p><font size="2">What is it that makes you want to wake up and do the same thing over and over like a robot?</font></p><p><font size="2">I guess what Im asking is WHAT REALLY MATTERS to YOU?</font></p><p><font size="2" /></p>

[PapaBear]

My kids and the occasional joy I get in life.

[mikeyboy]

Wife and kids.

[FUNKMAN]

<p>health and well being of my family and friends...</p><p>then big gazoombas</p>

[AngelAmy]

right now all that matters to me is reefie and my friends...i wake up and go to work to make money to move out of my house and in with reefie so we can finally move on together and eventually get married and have like 5 million kids <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/images/smile.gif" border="0" />

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by AngelAmy on 9-27-06 @ 1:19 AM</span>

[Doctor Z]

My porn addiction.

[Dirtybird12]

<strong>mikeyboy</strong> wrote:<br />Wife and kids. <p>Yeah I hear you &amp; PB... and everyone else that mentions a loved one.</p><p>But are you then saying that IF your wife and kids split - U would have no drive?</p><p>Like that movie Castaway w/ Tom Hanks, U found yourself stranded with no human contact what would keep you going?</p><p>Is human contact THAT important? </p><p>without it there is nothing?</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Coach]

<strong>CircusFreak</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>mikeyboy</strong> wrote:<br />Wife and kids. <p>Yeah I hear you &amp; PB... and everyone else that mentions a loved one.</p><p>But are you then saying that IF your wife and kids split - U would have no drive?</p><p>Like that movie Castaway w/ Tom Hanks, U found yourself stranded with no human contact what would keep you going?</p><p>Is human contact THAT important? </p><p>without it there is nothing?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rule 1: love yourself First!!</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Coach on 9-27-06 @ 4:31 AM</span>

[PapaBear]

<strong>CircusFreak</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>mikeyboy</strong> wrote:<br />Wife and kids. <p>Yeah I hear you &amp; PB... and everyone else that mentions a loved one.</p><p>But are you then saying that IF your wife and kids split - U would have no drive?</p><p>Like that movie Castaway w/ Tom Hanks, U found yourself stranded with no human contact what would keep you going?</p><p>Is human contact THAT important? </p><p>without it there is nothing?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>CF... I also mentioned the &quot;occasional joy I get in life&quot;. </p><p>I'll be honest. I&nbsp; have often have thoughts that, if I didn't have my kids, I'd want be perfectly willing to leave this world. I saw Castaway at a very important part of my life. I had just spent some time in jail. It wasn't years, but it still made me think. I was isolated at a time when I thought I had no reason to live. All I could think about (aside from the effect of my absence from my loved ones), was how I'd miss the simple pleasures in life.</p><p>I know you are tortured, at times. I am too. I keep living, because I get great pleasure from little things that happen every so often. It's a selfish thing, in certain ways. In other ways... it isn't selfish. </p><p>I should stop posting after 3AM. That said... my incomprehensible post is honest.</p><p>KARMA IS</p>

[El Mudo]

<p>Other than my faith, what drives me is the desire not to fail...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I
can't/won't stand for it...at least not personally.&nbsp; I've never
had the physical/mental gifts some people have, so I have to compensate
for it by working 10x harder than anyone else&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

You know, Mudo, I used to think like that when I was younger....had to be perfect all the time and never fail...well...that's just a formula for failure for ME!!!!!!...Now...all I can do is my best and leave the rest to faith or whatever....it usually works out for the best and if it doesn't.....well, no one bats a thousand!!!!<br />

[cupcakelove]

<p>Beer.</p><p>Just kidding.&nbsp; I'd have to say family and friends, and other life experiences in general.&nbsp; I love seeing live music, not just big shows, but also random people in bars.&nbsp; I also enjoy an occasional book or independent flick.&nbsp; And roadtrips, I love traveling.&nbsp; I guess the thought that I don't know what tomorrow will bring keeps me going, even though it usually is the same thing, I still find it exciting.<br /></p>

[A.J.]

<img height="259" src="http://www.anshawn.com/urkelnet/pics/fmend.jpg" width="291" border="0" />

[dereckfishboy]

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/jenosyde/devilhorns1.jpg

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font size="1">What Matters? </font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">being creative</font></strong></p>

[Keotok]

Monday-Friday, 12-3pm est<br />

[Mike Teacher]

<p>Life, man, life. We made it. We're here. A fairly large number of miracles happened such that each of us is here, and made it in some semblance of 'wealth' meaning anyone who can see this on a computer is doing better then the vast, vast majority of people who ever set foot on this planet.</p><p>=</p><p>Just below the surface of what we call our day-to-day world lie riches. The &quot;surface&quot; is how we see the world and believe it to be. If in a moment this overlay, this veneer of interpretation, lifts we find a new world. Not a new world of clever intentions, political theorising and utopian devising, but a new world - the real world. We may like it, or not, but it is not a fiction. If we dislike it, then we at least we have something real to dislike, if we may.<br /><br />R. Fripp; Guitar Craft</p><p>=</p><p>What matters is to Not get up like a robot and do the same thing every day; but to have an aim, a purpose. We should be marveling at the world around us, and vigourously questioning it, to see what is real, to see what is fiction, to find what is possible of us, if we challenge ourselves. </p><p>To be blunt, in my opinion, to be alive and not marveling at the&nbsp;universe around us is to be nine-tenths of the way into the grave. Ditto with wallowing in our habits of sadness, depression, doubts. SO easy to wallow in, so difficult to break out of, but the prison cage's door has always been open, we're just sccared shitless to escape most of the time. </p><p>Signing off now to walk the woods and find something I''ve never, ever seen in my life, and never, ever will see again. What is it? I have absolutely no idea.</p><p>Seeya!</p>

[walking joint]

<p>what drives me is to keep myself and my family in a house of our own with food.&nbsp; and i'd like to stay out of jail in order to accomplish this.&nbsp;</p><p>and if i didn't have any family i would do the same for myself.&nbsp; just don't want to be poor and living in the streets.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by walking joint on 9-27-06 @ 9:29 AM</span>

[AKA]

I've actually been grappling with this question for awhile now, when talking to friends who are going through various levels of depression, and ultimately what Bobo and Mizzle said really kind of sums it up what I've come to on my own. I need to always have the next project to go to - I need the support of very close friends - I need to have a feeling that the choices I'm making take me on the most interesting paths. There is more than one good choice - I just need to have confidence in the ones i make.

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>Keotok</strong> wrote:<br />Monday-Friday, 12-3pm est<br /><p><img src="http://www.thepayback.com/images/gold_shadow_asskisser.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smile.gif" border="0" />&nbsp;just messin'</p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>It's easy for bullshit wannabe philosophers like me to say the above, but extremely difficult in real life. </p><p>We've all gone through major shit in our lives, and for me, the whole deal is to realize it's all bullshit, and that most of the bad stuff in our lives is our own doing. Meaning, life is going to throw shit at you, that's a given, and none of us has any control over that whatsoever. So, the difference is in how we react to the shit thrown our way. </p><p>The traffic is backed up and I'm going to be late for work. Two possible reactions:</p><p>1. Work myself up into a hissy whiny bitch who's pounding the dash and cursing the world and wallowing in negativity.</p><p>2. Realize nothing you can do will solve/change anything, sit back, and relax.</p><p>The time you get to work doesnt change, but in the two scenarios, two radically different people, with diffeent lives, exist in that car. Replace 'traffic jam' with 'bad relationship' or 'nowhere job' or 'family problem' and realize for the most part, the Universe tends to unfold as it will [stolen from Harold + Kumar], and we can go through this life either wondering 'when life is gonna stop sucking?', 'when am I really gonna get my shit together and do something substantial' 'why do i do the same stupid things over and over agin' or 'why do i have these horrible feelings about person X, etc.&nbsp;and just realize This Is It, that life will stop sucking when you, and sometimes I have to literally do this out loud, talk yourself&nbsp;into not being That person, not being a negative vortex of suckitude.</p><p>We can suffer cheerfully through this life. </p><p>We're gonna suffer, thats a given, so...</p><p>Suffer Cheerfully.</p><p>God I loathe talking in bumper sticker.</p>

[Dougie Brootal]

<strong>Coach</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>CircusFreak</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>mikeyboy</strong> wrote:<br />Wife and kids. <p>Yeah I hear you &amp; PB... and everyone else that mentions a loved one.</p><p>But are you then saying that IF your wife and kids split - U would have no drive?</p><p>Like that movie Castaway w/ Tom Hanks, U found yourself stranded with no human contact what would keep you going?</p><p>Is human contact THAT important? </p><p>without it there is nothing?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Rule 1: love yourself First!!</p><span class="post_edited">This message was edited by Coach on 9-27-06 @ 4:31 AM</span> <p>&quot;Base not your joy upoon the deeds of others: For what is given can be taken away.&quot;</p><p><img src="http://helios.et.put.poznan.pl/~malina/foto/peter_steele/big/peter_steele_032.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[Recyclerz]

<p><font size="2"><strong>I cannot go on.&nbsp; I will go on.</strong></font></p><p><img src="http://www.applauseonline.com/images/Waiting%20for%20Godot.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[ShelleBink]

After today, I've begun to question a lot of shit I've decided would be good for me.&nbsp; I guess what motivates me is success and opportunities, and hopefully not fucking them up.<br />

[Badinia]

<p>Childless atheism does give you a lot of time to fill and&nbsp;a lot of questions to answer.&nbsp; I'm not living for my family or for faith.&nbsp; I'm spending my life learning and trying to create,&nbsp;interacting with loved ones, and enjoying the world and my time in it.</p><p>Also, Dance, Dance, Revolution.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Badinia on 9-27-06 @ 8:38 PM</span>

[Don Stugots]

<p>of course my family matter to me.&nbsp; regina and vegas mean the world to me but i know that if someone tragic happened to then i would be devasted but i would go on.&nbsp; i would have to.&nbsp; with all the pitfalls i have already endured in my life i know there is no hard time that i could not get through.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>for the record, i want regina and vegas to be around for as long as God allows.&nbsp; (i just didnt want to jinx myself)</p>

[Gvac]

<p><img border="0" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007XBMZ2.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1116519888_.jpg" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Jujubees2]

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Of course loved ones matter the most.&nbsp; But I also try, each and every day, to attempt to do something so that this world will be a better place when&nbsp;I leave it.&nbsp; Whether that means recycling my bottles, giving to&nbsp;a charity or just spending some time with the kids in an attempt to instill some of my values in them.</span></p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p><img border="0" src="http://img293.echo.cx/img293/6346/queenbohemianrhapsodyoriginal1.jpg" />&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Nothing really matters, anyone can see. Nothing really matters. . . nothing really matters. . . to me. . . &quot;</p><p>&nbsp;

<font size="1" face="verdana" color="black">

</font></p><p><font size="1" face="verdana" color="black"><font size="2"><strong>I cannot go on.&nbsp; I will go on.</strong></font></font></p><p></p><p><img width="170" height="235" border="0" src="http://www.musicboom.it/specials/2002061002190004.jpg" />&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;THE SHOW MUST GO ON!&quot;&nbsp;</p>

[grlNIN]

<p>I want to be a better person for myself and the people closest to me. </p><p>I don't get up in the morning and think about how i don't want to do certain things. I wake up and know that after that particular day is over and done, I am one more closer to reaching a specific goal and standard i have created for myself.<br /></p><p><br /></p>

[furie]

i used to go about life living it for myself. i did what i want when i wanted. And for the most part, i wasted time and wasted my life. just lazy i guess.

But now i devote my energies to making a life for my wife and kid. So it is they who drive me. i work to make my son's future better. not only financially but quality of life. to leave America a better place than how I found it.