What keeps you alive?

[SirPanda]

Food, Fear of dying

 

[mgill]

cowardice and an abhorrence of violence of any sort.  sometimes though, i am truly envious of those who are brave enough to be able to let go & solve all of their problems for eternity i this manner.

 

[GustavusMacer]

What keeps you alive in the midst of all that despair?

Biology and --should I put this way?-- fear of the god.

Biology: my body is alive and it isn't on me to interfere with it, in my view.

Fear of the god: in a way, it is up to the god(s) or to a god to determine when life begins or ends. On the other hand, say there's no god at all, so perhaps you shouldn't be so eager for life to end, considering it might be it (and just it).

But I think the answer you're proposing would be more like what makes a person (me, in the case of my own answer) thankful for life or for being alive... In a way, to me, also a god. My god. For the moment, I guess that's it. I've been loosing the sort of hope that things are going to get better someday... They are not seeming to.