Ridin down the country on my Triumph on a beautiful day here in Hawaii. What keeps me going?
Not really giving a rat's ass!!!!

I enjoy life. Ah hell, okay, coffee.

Right now, it is working to get out the vote to expell the traitorous grifters currently in our our political seats of power, and to have the ban on assault weapons reinstituted. Another side of me is my family, working on myself to be better, and my butterfly garden. I'd like to see changes to make the environment and the world better and I honestly try to live my life in a way that makes a positive difference.

Well for me it's all the food and cocktails I haven't yet tried. Those are the most important. Then it's money, friends and all the places I haven't been. Finally there is the one little tidbit with feeling. There wouldn't be anything to feel if I died. I would rather feel pain over nothing. So why quit?

The pursuit of happiness, knowledge, adventure, reason, beauty and love are what gives my life meaning.

Vodka.

Me! being kind ! Resposive to others for fun or learning - Coffee - Warm white chocolate and raspberry scones - walking by the sea - watching t.v with my partner in my jammies, gardening, Learning how to deal with crabbit people with fragile egos, cooking and having cuddles and good conversations I also do shedloads of craftwork much of which just hangs around but if anyone loves it they can have it . I read a lot and somehow get involved in things that are happening around me - I am also a heavy sulker- sulking is good when you do it well!

Coffee.
That and suicide are the only truly valid choices.

People. I surround myself with brilliant and loving people. Returning that love to build people up and share things that help them grow is important to me. I have to give back.

There is no universal meaning to life, but its up to us to give life meaning.

On that note, responsibility gives meaning to my life

There's a good chance that if things just continue for long enough, there will be an increasing possibility of three things happening

1: things will get worse;
With practice the pieces get put back together quicker than last time.

2: nothing

3: things will be better

Even though I consider my current life to be pretty shit, with practice I can speed up recovery. If I just live long enough, then day after day those three things will happen. Eventually it might just be a mere habit to be happy. Until that day I will just focus on building myself up

Writing.

Alcohol and tacos

Family, the ability to observe what's happening in the world and having an intelligent opinion and my journal that I look forward to making an entry into while having coffee each morning. I promote waking with a smile to start the day off right. Try it!

Helping others think clearer about their life, using the Models of Socrates and Viktor Frankl as inspiration

For me, the number one factor is curiosity. I am old enough to be getting tired of having new experiences that aren't usually all that new anyway. Been there, done that, got the tee shirt, and in most cases, wasn't that impressed anyway. But ... but ... I'm curious how this and that is going to sort out. Trumpism, the colonization of space, the quest for biological immortality and for true general purpose AI. It all interests me. Particularly if I can be more of an observer and not personally besieged by any of it.

The number two factor is that I have promises to keep. I have a wife, a child, two step children, four grand children, colleagues, friends. I have roles to play in all their lives, even as I let some of these relationships organically drift away. I also am nearly the sole carrier of the memory of my prior wife, and my son, who both left life prematurely; and to a lesser extent, of my oldest brother and my mother, who likewise were interrupted in the normal course of life. I both want to join them in oblivion, and want to testify longer that I bore witness to their existence. If that makes any sense.

A very distant third is just the primal will to self-preservation. If all the people mentioned above were gone from my life, if the world were descending into dystopian chaos and "nature, red in tooth and claw" were all there was to contemplate, I would still hesitate to end my own life. Meagre though it may be, it's the only one I'll ever have. I would hesitate less than most, I'd wager -- but hesitate I would.

Me. I am the meaning and my partner who needs his dinner cooked as he has severe OCD. So Keeping busy and creative mainly and appreciating and enjoying most of the moments.

My kids and girlfriend

Music and then more music it's my life and job!

I'm living day by day. Motivation and my medication keeps me going.

Books, conversations, learning, education, debating and personal development.

Knowing that I can spend my time alivea king everyone else's time here more enjoyable.

I want to know what happens next.
Where is humanity going? Are we evolving? Ascending? Racing towards extinction? Is there a diaspora in our future? Or do we make way for the next species to evolve intelligence here on Earth?

The other bastards that want to control me. James

Connections. Shallow, deep and everything in between. We may think we are but none of us are truly alone.