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Against overwhelming odds, you are still here--what keeps you going?
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Solecist Project
#21 - 2014-08-19 14:06:34 UTC
Myself and the fact that I hate you lot enough to **** you off with my existance! :D

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#22 - 2014-08-19 14:29:10 UTC
Slade, there is something to be said about being one of those who dwells in the shallow end of the Abyss. Having dealt with depression for 30+ years I can say with absolute honesty that one of the best feelings in life is to reach out and grab the hand of someone who desperately wants out but doesn't know exactly how and to yank them out of that drain to oblivion. It wont make things better for you necessarily, but knowing that you helped them out of that sinkhole that you cannot yourself escape somehow makes it worthwhile. Being a lifeguard for those whom life has kicked in the teeth is something to be proud of, but not overly so. The normals will never understand, there are others who will though.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#23 - 2014-08-19 14:29:57 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Myself and the fact that I hate you lot enough to **** you off with my existance! :D


^ so, spite :) Is okay, it keeps me moving.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Solecist Project
#24 - 2014-08-19 14:57:00 UTC
Omar Alharazaad wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
Myself and the fact that I hate you lot enough to **** you off with my existance! :D


^ so, spite :) Is okay, it keeps me moving.

No spite.

To quote Ria about me: You are an *******. It's what you do.


Why not simply accept the truth...

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Handar Turiant
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-08-19 15:06:57 UTC
Dunno really. Cause I gotta? Not meant to be glib, but yeah, I'm probably a highly decadent westerner with no concept of loss or having it really hard. Life is just kind of boring... job swallows most of your time, relationship is fun but meh, and it's still like forever until the next thing I'm hyped for comes out.....

Maslow, what does he know....
Anslo
Scope Works
#26 - 2014-08-19 15:09:36 UTC
I don't like some aspects of Eve and what people do to others. So, I'm doing something about it. That's what keeps me here.

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]
Solecist Project
#27 - 2014-08-19 15:28:11 UTC
Anslo wrote:
I don't like some aspects of Eve and what people do to others. So, I'm doing something about it. That's what keeps me here.

Lowsec needs a CODE too.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#28 - 2014-08-19 15:37:59 UTC
Anslo wrote:
I don't like some aspects of Eve and what people do to others. So, I'm doing something about it. That's what keeps me here.

If EVE is what keeps you waking up every day without a long pull off a buckshot inhaler, then more power to you, and for that matter props to EVE. I don't like some of the aspects of EVE and how folks treat each other either, but I can't really say it's something that keeps me going in day to day life. To me, ultimately, this is a game. Granted it is a game that I cherish and love for it's myriad screwed up dysfunctional participants, but still a game. The community at large is a slightly different matter, as they are people. While my loathing for the human race as a whole is epic in scale, individual people deserve, in my opinion, a chance to represent themselves as being either praiseworthy or reprehensible. EVE is comprised of individuals who fall on both sides of this fence, oftentimes simultaneously. It's like an internet 'Cannery Row', where you'll find saints, sinners, heroes and villains all wrapped up in one, with only the when and where and why to determine what face you encounter at the moment.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Anslo
Scope Works
#29 - 2014-08-19 15:40:32 UTC
Dude I meant that in terms of what keeps me logging into Eve, not what keeps me going in RL. EVE[WALL]RL

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#30 - 2014-08-19 15:44:16 UTC
Oh. Well. Then. GTFO.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Anslo
Scope Works
#31 - 2014-08-19 15:45:11 UTC
Omar Alharazaad wrote:
Oh. Well. Then. GTFO.

huehue

[center]-_For the Proveldtariat_/-[/center]
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2014-08-19 15:52:41 UTC
EVE certainly helps me get through my life. Sometimes it provides for me an outlet for my desire to be a force for good, sometimes it gives me a place to use violence to right wrongs, sometimes it lets me sink into the fold and go with the flow in a grander scheme that I may not support. I have an innate desire to do all of these things but sometimes I avoid them in normal life because of the long-term impacts of my actions, or the difficulty in their completion. Alternatively, these forums provide for me the Out of Pod Experience, where I can talk about anything that's important to me, and have so many of you from all over the world listen to me and talk back, recounting your experiences. That's one of the things I treasure most of everything I have.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#33 - 2014-08-19 15:55:25 UTC
Another thing I do a lot is cherish simple pleasures in life. I love being outside with sun on my face and wind in my hair. Walking or biking the trails around the lake. Listening to the sounds of the world. A cup of coffee sitting out on the swing, fog rolling over the water. I also take great pleasures in music and writing. I cope with most of the negative stuff that happens to me through those. I listen to music that lets me escape or I vent it all out in writing.

I'm also not opposed to having a few drinks to take the edge off Cool
Pepper Swift
Perkone
Caldari State
#34 - 2014-08-19 15:55:30 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
EVE certainly helps me get through my life. Sometimes it provides for me an outlet for my desire to be a force for good, sometimes it gives me a place to use violence to right wrongs, sometimes it lets me sink into the fold and go with the flow in a grander scheme that I may not support. I have an innate desire to do all of these things but sometimes I avoid them in normal life because of the long-term impacts of my actions, or the difficulty in their completion. Alternatively, these forums provide for me the Out of Pod Experience, where I can talk about anything that's important to me, and have so many of you from all over the world listen to me and talk back, recounting your experiences. That's one of the things I treasure most of everything I have.



*hugs*

What I need most.. is a day between Saturday and Sunday...

If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#35 - 2014-08-19 16:10:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Dersen Lowery
Making and listening to art, especially music. The chance to leave the world better than I found it. Friends. Family. God.

A wide streak of mulish stubbornness hasn't hurt.

Objectively speaking, mine is a life of privilege, but sometimes that's its own kind of weight: if I have all this going for me that other people would kill for, why am I not doing more with it? Other people have to work twice as hard to get half the credit; what's my excuse? As a natural depressive I don't like negative motivators much, but sometimes those questions light a fire under me.

Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables.

I voted in CSM X!
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2014-08-19 16:36:46 UTC
Pepper Swift wrote:
*hugs*

*hugs back, squeezing super tightly*

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#37 - 2014-08-19 16:43:17 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Pepper Swift wrote:
*hugs*

*hugs back, squeezing super tightly*

relevant Blink

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#38 - 2014-08-19 16:44:16 UTC
I may blow you you up, but ultimately I love you guys. Just don't hate me for getting your pod goo all over my windscreen.

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
Omar Alharazaad
New Eden Tech Support
#39 - 2014-08-19 16:45:11 UTC
and once again. RALPH GET THE F*CK out of my HEAD!

Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#40 - 2014-08-19 17:34:33 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
What keeps me going?

Sheer force of will.


Honestly though... sometimes I just wonder where I am going and hope that it will become more clear as I continue paddling through the rapids of life.
Playing EVE is, for me, pulling my boat up on the shore and just huddling next to a campfire of predictable insanity.

How did you Veterans start?