The question that I have asked myself: WHY you should live one more day?
In other words, the mother of all question: What makes a life worth living?

This is the question people before Plato and after him wrestled with for ever.

Of course there's the basic instinct to live, but we are more than our genes and built-in will to live.
Yes many say I want to live FOR SOMEONE -- a spouse, a child, a friend, a teacher.....
Or at a certain age, I should give up ON Living?
But you guessed the problem: Is life worthless Without them, at certain age?

At 82, I look forward to each day for NONE of those reasons.
And I do have some old age issues but I am able to 'Look Forward to Each Day' is for what is called Purpose in Life. It is, as you must know by now, has to be More than what many have given reasons for living; I want to USE my Time-on-earth what I believe is Good for those outside of the ones I've said.

Today, I want to live because I believe I have a 'truth' about life that will help Humanity.
That is a goal Beyond me and my 'selfish' reasons as I noted above. In other words, my reason-to-want-to-want health, longevity, have to be beyond me as those for community and beyond.
All I am saying what might help Most to having lived our lives well is when we can look back and say: I did use it for what I believed was most worthwhile use of my time-on-earth.
Then I'd be able to look back and say: I'm glad I used my time what I truly believed (within the external/environmental constraints we all must)

I believe that gives me a health where I did not have to see my doctor in last ten years, and rarely even before that. I take no medications, done no tests, no colonoscopy even tho reminded many times in my early seventies, no supplements, or special diets.
I do try to keep myself in about optimal condition with simple mostly plant-based foods, physical exertions in variety of ways to keep my body strong and limber. I use my mind for all its capacities: cognitive, emotional, spiritual.
I would like to think I am GROWing old, not getting old. Age is irrelevant, What I do with my time, alone maters. So As Nietzshe has said; We all die at the right time. To me it makes sense because then we are living a life-in-flow, a state where time loses its significance. The book Flow by the Hungarian author, sounds like Chick-sent-me-high.

Join me folks on this shipwreck journey -- and make most of it JOYOUS!
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