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What keeps you centered?

guaatang

guaatang

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It seems that most people I run accross have a driving force in life, something that they hold close and that keeps them balanced and stable. For some people, it is religion. For others, like my gf, it is school and the search for knowledge. Music is what does it for me. The ability I have to control my emotions and my day just by chosing the music I listen to. There is always music that I can listen to to get into whatever mood I want, pull myself out of any funk I'm in, and stimulate any line of thinking I can imagine. The ability of music to influence mood captivates me. I've always got music on. There is not a minute I spend in my home or car without music. I study in the library with music on my headphones. I could not imagine my life without it.

What does this for you? And why does it help you control and center your life?
 
What keeps me centered? What keeps mankind alive...

'Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts'

Bertold Brecht ;)
 
My daughter. Never has my life had more meaning as it has since I have been a father. It is the strongest emotional bond I have ever felt in life.

Music is my secret strength. It gives me the deep throbbing pounding drive to accomplish what I need to accomplish. From classical to dance/techno/trance - they all inspire.

The search for knowledge, and the application of that knowledge to lead a life of wisdom.

The hope that I will be able to truly help people in whatever way I can.
 
What keeps me centred? Usually, applying logic to circumstances to try and understand them. That's probably why I seem to have a knack for programming.

Music helps me focus on things, especially programming - very rarely do I code anything without winamp running, playing either my collection of MP3s (now available on 1 DVD! =D) or a stream from DI...

But I digress.

Funnily enough, one thing that I hold close is that life has no meaning, and that logically, that is okay. I could try to explain it but I've tried many times and failed - I probably just need to find the right words. People's inabilities to cope with the concept makes it more difficult.
 
'applying logic to circumstances to try and understand them'

'one thing that I hold close is that life has no meaning, and that logically, that is okay'

'People's inabilities to cope with the concept makes it more difficult.'

quite interesting that the logical man is the one who holds true that life has no meaning, and i don't mean to say that in a condesending sense but from my experience this always seems to be the case.
personally (and as you've encountered before) i have an 'inability to cope with the concept' because for me life does have a meaning, because otherwise it would'nt exist. the very fact that i live is meaning enough.

i think to you life has no meaning because your logic draws you to that conclusion (and what is logic if not more than a rationale based on our pre-concieved idea's of reality?)
i try to take everything as it is, instead of trying to systematize how it makes sense in relation to (my) logic. this may seem vauge but basicly i try to embrace the feeling of being alive, and see what THAT gives me, instead of trying to figure it all out.
i'd like to here in detail your actual argument as i can't responde apart from on a general basis.
 
mary-ja-wonna ;) I luv da herb mon ;)
Just kiddin, what keeps me centered is my believe showing compassion and love as much as I can will help others to probably do the same making the world more easy going and friendly :) and the sacred herb which i pray to budda(weed/dro/bud) ;)
 
although i enjoy music tremendously, i would have to say that at times i can let myself become too enveloped by music's influence on my creative mind to say that it keeps me centered...quite the opposite, actually. music takes me away from my norm. away from the sobering reality of living and into my own grand fantasy world where everything is in perfect harmony and at absolute blissful peace. perhaps this nirvana i describe is my center, but i disagree with that point purely because the feelings i encounter while present in such a state are completely contradictory with the harshly bland rhythm(or lack of)that normality imposes upon my psyche.

i would say that the thing which centers me is the simple existence of that other emotional dimension which i can transcend into at my free will. in other words, what keeps me centered is my imagination's power. not my imagination, but the force that governs it.
 
socks said:
'applying logic to circumstances to try and understand them'


quite interesting that the logical man is the one who holds true that life has no meaning, and i don't mean to say that in a condesending sense but from my experience this always seems to be the case.
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Who the fuck are you to make a critique of someone's beliefs? We are not posting in this thread to tear someone's ideas apart. It is a place to share what you feel, not analyize another's thought.

Lets try to keep it that way......
 
^^^well buddy, your statement is contradicting. he is sharing what he feels.

you meen you've never analyzed another's thoughts? how do you know what you know is "TRUE"? how do you learn about us as humans without analyzing what others think?

have you considered that not everyone uses this site the way that you do? some come here to analyze how others think. he wasn't putting anyone down, just posting his belief. and that is what this site is for to some.
 
i would just like to point out that it is impossible to know another human being's thoughts, without their confessing of them, and thus any analyzation we made based on such would be pure assumption, whereas the best way to "learn about us as humans" is by scrutinizing oneself.
 
you people just cant help yourselves! every time a new thread someone is ripping at someone.

phew!

gravity keeps me centred, keeping myself who I want to be does, thinking about the future, having belief in God, being a good person to myself and others all keeps me on the stright and narrow.
 
a search for meaning? purpose? I dunno. If we're talking centered on a purely pragmatic level, then school. Some vague notion of 'the future.' Gives me something to look towards, keep focused on. A goal.

Centered in terms of life as a greater journey...if not a search for meaning, then a search for happiness, and a wish to leave some sort of legacy for future generations. Whatever that may be (although hopefully positive)
 
blah, I don't even know if anything keeps me centered. Distractions, maybe. Or the desperate hope that magic exists, somewhere.
 
I am not centered, my whole existance is a mess. My ideas, my logic, my beliefs, my future, and my past are all in shambles.
I could have control in my life, but with no basis. I have no idea of how to centre myself. I am lost in a sea of uncertainty, I just get bashed around by waves which represent outside forces on my life.

I plod along aimlessly with no direction, and it blows and i wish i did have something to centre me.
 
Nature and the Roots, thus Trees, our Flora....thats what drives me to exist. I care not about the extended existance of humankind, for we, as a species, are a disease upon this scorned planet. Radical, Fanatical...call it what you must. But in the end, man will end...and the trees will grow to a most extreme and pure grand mecca.
Uzi-Pudding:VanillaFUNK
 
The persisting belief that life is nothing but what we make for ourselves, and therefore we should strive only for happiness and a sense of self-worth. For me, this takes the form of knowledge and creativity - those are the things which, by increasing my capacity for both, give me fulfillment.

That, and booze.
 
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