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what makes you feel good about yourself and justfies all the oxygen your using up?

me, I like working out. school can be fun, I love learning new things, but if I dont do physical activity for a few days, I start getting twitchy. on the other hand, I can stop doing college for a spring break, and if I am working out, Im feeling awesome ^^

Enforcer Talen wrote:what makes you feel good about yourself and justfies all the oxygen your using up?

The rare chances to sing, and making people laugh and feel all bubbly inside. I know that sounds like a weird thing, but that's what makes me feel glad to be me. Sometimes it's the only thing, but it's better than nothing.

I have zero self-esteem, and if not for the fact that everyone calls me a genius (even professors), I might have suicided ages ago. So I guess I'm being carried by everyone's expectations.

People claiming I'm a good person and have talent, mostly. Oh, and the drugs help.

That, and the general need to get the stories out of my head and into some discernable form.

Accomplishment, pure and simple.

That and the fact that I reached an accord with myself sometime back to accept who and what I am, working on fixing the rough edges, so on and so forth.

I've done some good in my life, and I look to do more.

I can't justify my existence.

Or actually, I can, but it's one giant fallacy. Basically, I take a great deal of sollace in the fact that I'm not violent, greedy or otherwise actively evil.

I contribute nothing to the species, but I'm not as big of a detriment as some people. That's basically it.

simply realizing that there's always more i can do than what i've done before, and that i haven't done everything i've wanted to yet. also the fact that there's very little i probably couldn't do that i want to do with enough motivation and means.

My wife makes me feel good about myself. Damn, she's hot.

But the number one thing is a small thing: I know that I can go out right now and buy myself a candy bar. I can do this, in fact, whenever I want to and it won't make a lick of difference to me financially. The security of knowing I'm not counting pennies to make it through life makes me feel DAMN good about myself.

I'm the therapist out of my little group of friends. I've been told I'm half-decent at it. Maybe a little bit more. So not only does it make me feel good that I'm helping out my friends, it makes me feel sorta needed. If that makes any sense.

xBlackFlash wrote:I'm the therapist out of my little group of friends. I've been told I'm half-decent at it. Maybe a little bit more. So not only does it make me feel good that I'm helping out my friends, it makes me feel sorta needed. If that makes any sense.

Makes a lot of sense Velvet.*hugs* Everyone needs to be needed. It's actually one of the basic needs...

it's always good to feel that. It helps one keep it together sometimes.

I've always had good esteem. My sense of self worth comes from knowing I'm doing something I want to do that's in my best interest or fulfills some desire. That's not necessarily a selfish thing, as making a sacrifice for a friend may be my desire. I feel a sense of accomplishment when I fulfill some challenge/goal I set for myself. I spend a very little amount of time feeling angry or sad.

I guess I'm the complete opposite of being co-dependant, which may be the reason I'm still single. I don't need someone holding my hand to accomplish something, nor do I need reassurance that I'm smart or doing something right.

Those around me always say I give good advice, and I'm called a compassionate and caring person. That makes me feel good inside.

Expectations, the love of learning, and the "Ah-hah!" instant, both when I have it, but more when someone I'm teaching has it.

Thanks from others when I dispense information or render assistance. It may be a bit self absorbed of me, but I enjoy it when I'm recognized for something.

Enforcer Talen wrote:what makes you feel good about yourself and justfies all the oxygen your using up?

that i can do some things other cannot, including some 3D artwork and computer science stuff.

that most events happen like i predict (even if noone believes me)

Letting people see what I can do. Whether it's a good test score, saying something amusing, or just doing something with friends, anything to show that I can do something besides go a day without talking to someone other than myself. But, since I don't do those things nearly as much as I can, I have a few self-esteem problems.

My friends are willing to drag my anti-social ass out every now and then despite the fact that I practically go kicking and screaming, so there must be something good about me.

Knowing that I've "made it", more or less. I had so many people in my youth tell me that I'll never make it, that I'll be a complete failure in life and end up being a homeless bum or permanently stuck on welfare. I got a degree, I have a decent job, I'm dating the most amazing and wonderful woman I can imagine...I've gotten somewhere and made something of myself, and now I get to go "ha-ha! Told you so!" to all my doubters. That gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Accomplishment and progress.

I guess I never actively went out and do "bad" things. I like every consumer and tax payer contributes to the economy and help people through taxes.

If I really want to say what my main contribution would be, I would say as a doctor I provide a obvious benefit to the people under my care.

1) I enjoy seeing other people laugh. I like to laugh, too.
2) Random acts of feigned stupidity or silliness liven up the day.*
3) Because there's nothing else to do. I never understood the preoccupation with a purpose for living when there's no alternative.
4) A girl. She doesn't like me any more than a friend and doesn't know, but it's nice just to be around her. I guess.

And that's about it. You learn to deal with the rest.

* A recent special favorite of mine was waiting till the end of a multi-day lecture on the chapters with the Renaissance and the Reformation and then raising my hand and asking "All right, I get the part about Martin Luther King, but what's a Ren-Ah-Sense?" The look of horror was priceless...

Right at the moment, fuck all except that I'm quite good at my job. Unfortunately, my job happens to be a quite junior clerical position, only my bosses let me rewrite the company constitution because I have a law degree and nobody else understands it anyway. In fact come to think of it, I only still have a job becuase I'm the only one who understands all the legal shit that nobody else wants to deal with.