What's the point in life?

[-BY]

I'm not always that wall of text guy. But it's one of these topics affecting me on a personal level. So I'm certainly talking more about this. Also want to talk to you as much as possible. (tbh. I did never know if you notice my posts as you never replied to them. : 3)

[CedarBranch]

I feel like I need alone time. Maybe it... can...

[MICrophone]

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Oranjui (November 9th, 2014, 10:22 pm)

[Harmless]

It sometimes feels like cartoons and such did this to me. Why the ♥♥♥♥ does the writer have to torture their characters? Why insult them? How is it funny when somebody loses a duel/battle?

Well, okay, if we're going to use cartoons as an example let's first analyze them.

Have you ever played a game called Team Fortress 2? Like a lot of FPS games, when you die you respawn, with no scratches on you or anything. Sure you might carry on the agony of that one guy taunting you after he beat your brains in, but personally that's one of the joys of cartoons - after a character gets totally trashed/humiliated, everything resets back to normal as if it never happened (though sometimes cartoons like Calvin & Hobbes will take past events and imply/make fun of them in future ones). It's because nothing is permanent - Wily Coyote getting an anvil dropped on his head happened there, and is completely removed some minutes after. So long as nobody gets seriously mauled or hurt permanently it's all in good comedy.

This effect is better shown in Bug Bunny where he plays dead when Elmer shoots, surprising Elmer into actually thinking he killed Bugs.

But yeah, I dunno. With regards to the original point at hand, at first I thought there would be practically no reason to live if all of your work would just go by forgotten, but then I learned about a thing called History. Influence is a strong thing, and as long as you play safe with it and encourage positive influence to the best of your abilities, then you might as well live until you die naturally of age. Plus, the best part is you don't have to do it alone. Or if you want you could. But it's all your choice.

Choices are fun, really.

[Newgeneration]

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CedarBranch (November 9th, 2014, 8:12 am)

[Ayrayen]

I'll rewrite the question.

What do you want to do in life?

As nin10mode said, it's what you make of it.
Life may not have a purpose or goal.
But we might find interesting things along the way.

And also, when you said "No. I'm not going to kill myself. Don't assume so. This isn't a cliche."
I wouldn't go as far as calling it "Cliché", as it is a serious matter nonetheless. Nobody really cares if it's "Cliche" if it's life threatening.
Thought i'd point that out.

[CedarBranch]

I'm fine right now. I've just been heavily depressed for a while. Dunno why.

Restated: I'm fine, and I think this can be closed. When I'm depressed, I can be irrational. (Note: I'm not at college, and I'm not really sure if I'll be able to handle it in the future. Thought I'd make that known.)

Anyways, thanks to all of you for the support! :>


(Also, I apologize if this particular post sounded at all snappy. Just noticed it may.)

[l.m]

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CedarBranch (November 19th, 2014, 12:37 pm)

[Supershroom]

For me your post was fully authentic, and I couldn't get around to write some heartening words for you. If you have a bad time, you have a bad time, and as you see it makes things better to talk to other people instead of keeping it to yourself. Thank god you're fine right now, that's very pleasing

oh and congratz to FF for veteranship D: