# What keeps you going?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-you-going/639780>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 3, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-you-going/639780 "2012-11-03T18:00:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-you-going/639780/81 "2012-11-08T16:53:38Z")

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Of all the matter in the universe an impossibly small amount of it is self-aware. The brief time I’ve got is a gift beyond any measure. I want to use as much of it as I can. Also, my wife, yada yada.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-you-going/639780/82 "2012-11-08T23:56:39Z")

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> [@Lobohan](#):
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> Of all the matter in the universe an impossibly small amount of it is self-aware. The brief time I’ve got is a gift beyond any measure. I want to use as much of it as I can. Also, my wife, yada yada.

That is a good point, but it is also our self awareness that drives us to want to end it.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-you-going/639780/83 "2012-11-12T04:55:19Z")

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Revenge.

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**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-you-going/639780/84 "2012-11-12T05:36:03Z")

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My son

The rest of my family

My work with shelter dogs

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