Thread: Your driving force

I believe in some sort of omnipotent energy or being. I can't confirm my experiences (feeling things, seeing things, etc, but I believe them and that's all that matters to me). I don't think my experiences with the supernatural has an effect on my driving force to live though. I just want to live and experience life. I'm always thinking about potentials and amazing things that could happen at any moment.

I have accepted the fact that I don't know what I don't know, and unless I die, will never actually find out...

I just try and live my life the best that I can... I aim to be remembered.
My dad grew up with next to nothing, but is now quite successful (I feel weird saying it, but like 1% successful). I aim to find my own niche and one day become more successful without just falling back on what I've been given. I've never faced true 'hard times,' although even people with financial stability can and do (myself included) experience dark times in life, but one thing I can't stand is disappointing my parents. I know what it is like to feel 'joy' or 'happiness' and my driving force in life is to grasp that feeling as much as possible, and at times, that feeling comes with some attachment to whatever I feel this omnipotent energy is, regardless of if it is actually present or not. Idk, I guess it all just comes back to the fact that i just want to live and to experience life. I am a very scientific person, but I definitely believe in the supernatural and the unexplainable. I just tend to keep them both separate.

My driving force is stimulation. A lot of stuff is fun. If I ever felt like I couldn't have fun anymore, I'd work towards having fun again. That's pretty much it. I've been through lots of hard stuff, and I always manage to get past it and have fun again... sooner or later anyways. If I ever stop enjoying being alive, I'd get help or help myself. I never felt the need to believe in some higher power, or greater scheme, to have purpose. I became an atheist as soon as I could, but it never dampened my spirits. I suppose I'm lucky to have a particular personality and outlook. I get that there are people out there that have objectively terrible lives and/or suffer from depression... but I'm not one of those people so I can't really speak to that. There is no excuse to feel empty. Read up on what Richard Dawkins, Neil Degrasse Tyson etc. have to say on it. They can explain it far better than me. Neil Degrasse Tyson in particular is a really sharp guy when it comes to this sort of dilemmas.