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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1364888" data-attributes="member: 198">What is good in life? To slay your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.Oh, come on - somebody had to say it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />That being said, here's my serious answer. Along with my statutory warning: Everything that I say here is personal opinion. It works brilliantly for me. I think it should work for everyone. And it doesn't. If you're anywhere close to a "normal" human being (and the fact that you're depressed indicates that you very probably are), stop reading here and go to the next post on this thread.There. That being said...There is nothing inherently good about life. Nothing, zilch, zappo. Emphasis on inherently. But what is completely incredible about life is that you can make just about everything about it worthwhile, if you choose to approach it and invest yourself in it with the right attitude.Everybody on these boards sits around and plays a game where you put yourself in the shoes of a fictional character, in a world that doesn't exist, and roll weird multi-sided pieces of plastic with numbers on them to decided if your fake character gets to succeed at doing fake things in that fake world. How stupid is that? Right? Wrong. Because when you bring a certain attitude to the table, indulging in this oh-so-weird activity creates pleasure and camaraderie, makes us laugh, lets us exercise our imagination, and create glorious stories that we will remember for years to come (drop by the Story hour forum if you don't believe me).The same is true for life. I have to disagree with a lot of posters and say that life isn't good because somebody else loves you or because you matter to other people. If you don't matter to you, having the whole world think you're wonderful does absolutely nothing. I think happiness is the natural state of being for anyone, and not being happy is a waste of time. But what makes you happy differs from person to person, and it's up to you to work it out. And nobody else can ever tell you how to do it. I'm the happiest person I know by a very far stretch, and the reason for it is that I sat down and worked out what makes me happy, what kind of work will keep me interested, how I would like to interact with people, where I would like to be, and so on. And then I got up and did all of the above. I know that it's a wonderful world out there. I live on a big rock that flies around in space and circles a big ball of fire, without ever falling down. How incredibly cool is that? I interact with people on a day-to-day basis and even though we can never ever really know what we are thinking, we're capable of communicating a good part of it to each other on the basis of some compeltely arbitrary sounds we exchange. Amazing! I can juggle two balls at a time (so I'm really bad - sue me!), taste a really juicy rare beef steak, read Shakespeare and Calvin and Hobbes, and TPK the PCs. Who'da thunk? And it's a beautiful world because I know what makes it tick, and I choose to be part of that on my own terms.In short, nobody can tell you what makes life good. Your family, your friends, your colleagues, your religious figure, your drug of choice, are all going to solve it for some time, but not permanent. You have to find out for yourself. Pull up a chair, sit down for a couple of hours, and think about what it might be that gives you pleasure. Think about whether you are who you want to be, and if not, work out what you need to do to be it. And then just do it. Life is simple, but it isn't easy. And if you're really, really sure that there's absolutely nothing worthwhile in life, walk off a cliff. It'll hurt less in the long run. For you and everyone around you. But before you decide to do that, really, really think about it. Life is too beautiful a thing to waste - or not appreciate. P.S. If the mods feel this isn't exactly appropriate, please feel free to edit/delete. Just my $0.02, after all.</blockquote>

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