askchapo

Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Mankind

How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky

Curious what happens tomorrow

If I give up it would make some people very sad

Revenge.

EDIT: damn it someone took it so I have to be earnest

I love the world, I love every single human, even the shits fighting us. I want every part of it to blossom into its full beauty. I want to turn the stars green. I want us all to dance among the universe forever. I want us all to join into cosmic union without losing our own selves.

None of this will happen in our lifetime. But if I can hasten it's coming by even an hour, what glory can surpass that?

literally just hanging out with people. for 99% of people, emotional bonds and connections with people are the most fulfilling thing you could have

Building a life and a future history with other people. I'm old enough that I have a fair share of friends and family have passed away, and they live on in the web of my memories, and still shape the course of my life yet to be. I live my life with that in mind, knowing that someday my consciousness will cease, but some positive aspects of my essence will live on and become part of the fabric of a better future. I think just being present and a good person on other people's lives is enough.

I also find a lot of purpose in the creation of physical objects and in sharing all the technical details and instructions for how others can create them. I don't just want to make things, I want those things to become part of our common culture.

Popcorn. Barrel strength wiskey. 42.

To see the booba

Don't have one, don't want one.

i want a family to invest myself in and i wanna read and study with whatever shred of freetime i otherwise have

i also got a drive to live that exceeds most negative externalities so i just wanna keep going and experience novel shit that doesn't harm anything to experience

that's not remotely negotiable, that's why i get up, that's why i try for anything at all lol

Humanity has had thousands of years of written history, and tens of thousands of years of oral history prior to that. Countless charismatic spiritual leaders of all beliefs have created religions and cults of all sizes and traditions. A common factor in most of them has been their belief in an "end time" within the lifetime of a believer, at which time a Divine Power descends onto our Flawed Earth and brings the true believers into The Promised Land (whether literal or figurative). It would be a moment in history where truth becomes clear to all, believer and non-believer alike, and the spiritual leader is vindicated.

Of course that has never actually happened yet, or we wouldn't be chatting about it on an internet forum.

But unlike every single one of those spiritual leaders, we really are seeing a sort of end-times. The great climate change catastrophe unfolding before our eyes, the ur-catastrophe that all other future catastrophes are either a component of, or have contributed to. We are the first to actually witness something akin to what all those false prophets of centuries and millennia past had claimed would happen in their lifetimes. Why would I not want to witness something completely unprecedented in the history of our species?

And besides, when the shit really hits the fan, my parents will be into "living independently but will need help with physically-demanding tasks" age. I want to make sure I'm around to help them out.

There's about ten million albums i haven't heard yet.

Making things better where I can.

I pass butter

To funnel whatever resources I have available to where they will be most useful to the people who come next.

To sit by the river long enough.

Cats and trying to build communism from the inevitable ashes of the climate wrecked capitalist world

After the revolution I just wanna mine coal all day.

Love is the only real reason to live. From what I've learned, apparently everything is made of Love. And every person who has ever had a spiritual experience reports that there is an entity made of pure Love that is behind it all. So at the moment I'm trying to balance this truth with the whole materialist communist thing. I do believe communism would make it much easier for us all to love each other more, without terrible material conditions forcing us to exploit and be exploited. Idk, I'm still thinking about it all.

Growing up and seeing death at a young age, after losing an apartment, many people I love either through death, drifting, break-up and the constant threat of unemployment because of my migraines; I'm in a relatively stable place now after struggling and grinding away for so long to reach it.

Seeing my family grinded by capital; my father discarded entirely after a series of workplace injuries and growing up shit-poor on the southside of the city pretty much gave me the sense that there is no god, there is no "divine" emotion that we all feel to unite us, there is no singular "thing" powering each and every single one of us.

All we have is free-will and what we choose to do with it. It's not meant to be motivation, it's simply reality. That's the best motivation for me. Change what is real.

My body is a machine that turns beans into farts

Nothing

I will continue to wake up,until one day,I won't

I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor.

Right now? Being honest and true to myself. Discovering who I am and becoming the person I want to be. I'm 21 now, and have started grappling with finding an identity. I think I'm making good progress in that regard.

But my lifelong goals? I live to see communism take hold in my country, no matter how long it takes. My friends are all moving away because they can't afford to keep living here under capitalism. I will destroy capitalism, make this country prosper and bring my friends home.

I've been learning that no matter what, I'm gonna have to do this the long way. So I'll try to live my life and learn how to be a person. I want to be a person who exists, not the perfect person who could never exist. And that means living and loving and failing and getting hurt and getting back up again. So that's what I'll do.

There are millions of different lives I would like to lead. I've only got one chance. I should make it worth it.

To be less philosophical, studying to be a doctor while keeping up my art hobby

I should probably spend less time online

I just want to be helpful and be loved

Idk, I just exist...

I'm here to fuck eat dance and resist occupation

:::spoiler To find the Holy Grail!

That is, if the Holy Grail were an urban commune composed of either cob houses or townhouses or both, on land put in collective ownership, in close association with a workers' cooperative that funnels money into expanding the commune.

Mine?

Ending the US occupation of Korea

Drugs

To understand and thrive

Inertia.

Dying could be the end of everything whereas living is guaranteed to be something. I'm not consciously afraid of death but after giving it a lot of thought it seems like a big gamble to just shut off the lights forever.

Oh i suppose that was for the previous iterations of myself. I have a kid and whatever chemical is supposed to get released in my brain is working great. I would do anything for that little creature

My girlfriend and experiencing worthwhile media

I just want to see how it all turns out.

Well, for a long time it was getting my black belt in BJJ. It's a tangible, finite, far off goal that can be achieved through my own work and dedication. However, 11 years later it's likely no further out than a well planned vacation, I have enough money to afford tuition until then, there's nothing more I must to learn about the art, I am 3-1 against black belts in competition, and I'm no longer coaching. When I was starting, it felt like this far off goal and you could day dream like "is it even possible? imagine what it would be like... what a wonderful journey ahead of me!" and now it's like being tenured so if I think it would be funny to practice punch chokes, wrist locks, and foot sweeps then I can run around giggling and seldom am I kept in check. If I hear them groan from top pressure I'll squeeze the air out of their torso like deflating a mattress until they sweep me so I can practice my escapes instead. The point being that this goal that was so far off stops being such a driving force in my life because the goal isn't even off over the horizon anymore - it's (likely) <50 commutes away.

Therefore it forces my perspective to shift. I've been doing a lot of heavy emotional work lately (which is the impetus for writing this out). My intention, informed by multiple bouts of achieving things I set my mind to, is to do what I do mindfully instead of zerging to the goal with the punchy epithet. I want to enjoy it, decorate it, research it, savor doing it, face failure unabashedly, and put it down when it doesn't excite me regardless of the treadmill implying there's some new shiny thing to progress to. I'd also love to use my cultivated skills, natural talent and demeanor to help people. Like if I could feasibly help the LGBT find a foothold in martial arts (especially curated and abridged for self defense/being protest ready) then I'd consider it a huge win. I think there are proportionately less lefties than there are the other things at the highest belt level and proportionately less of them are in charge of gyms/programs. And those gyms/programs are proportionately less geared towards the specific audience of hexchuds.

my cats, my girlfriend, outliving every transphobe and having a happier life than them, figuring out the recipe for the spicy salsa from the taco place near me

To take as much money from the state as I can

Sounds cliche but outliving the state of Israel

Revenge

Spite and hopefully seeing capitalism collapse sometime around mid 21st century.