Reasons to Stay Alive

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I wanted to title this "Reasons to Live", but I noticed another topic with this title and didn't want to make it look like a double post.

So on a roleplaying site I go on, a friend of mine found a picture on a different site that was supposed to be a list of reasons to live, but under it, it only said "NONE". My friend and I both agreed that the picture was quite depressing so we set up a little event for other roleplayers to post actual reasons to live. The event was great because we had tons of people with many good reasons to live, so I thought I'd set up something like it here. Feel free to add your reasons, but please try to be positive about this, as this is a list of reasons to live, not die. Please make your own thread for something like that.

I'll start~:

1. My mom has already dealt with a harsh divorce and my current step-dad is very ill. I don't want to make her life more depressing than it already seems.
2. My friends and girlfriend would be pretty darn heartbroken if I were to die.
3. I'm afraid of death, my own blood, and feeling pain.
4. There are some things in life that I actually enjoy and would hate to give up.
5. I want to be able to live out my dream first, or at least put in as much effort as I can to try and make it happen.
6. Waiting things out sometimes helps to bring me to a better place. (Such as school, or a trip to the dentist, they CAN'T keep a person there forever.)
7. I'm not any of the more common religions, but I'm not athiest either. I know I believe in something, but I'm not sure what it is, therefore I don't know where 'd go if I died.
8. As for the people who hate me, I plan to stay alive to spite them all. XD
9. I kind of want to serve some sort of importance when it comes to the research of Aspergers and other disabilities among the Autism spectrum. Not by myself, but maybe by something like personality quirks or medical records.
10. I'm not done fighting for my independence.
11. I'm also not done searching for the 'real me', subtracting my disability from the picture.
12. I wanna see what my full artistic potential looks like.
13. Attempting suicide will get me hospitalized. I do NOT want to go through that again.

And I'm pretty sure I have a lot more, but these are the ones I was able to come up with right away.

Feel free to post your own reasons here, since that's the purpose of this thread anyway. XD

1. To see the refraction of light through another's hair.
2. To learn about the next breakthrough in whatever (the next fossil finding of a dinosaur with feathers, or the new first piece of art ever created by humans).
3. MOST IMPORTANT: because you will feel better. The pain will ebb. You will find more happiness and look back at your dark times smiling. You will grow and learn and know it when you look back at now.

I have one: unless you believe in afterlife you can't be dead, because when you die you will no longer be, no senses, no feelings, no consciousness, no thoughts, no memories, nothing, there is no time after you die, your world ended. The good side is that you will always be alive, it's your only posible state, alive here and now, you can't experience your own death, only the agony, you are life, you can't be dead, like light can't be darkness.

just watch that beautiful series touch. it will show you how you effect everyone around you every day for just living
oh and the main characters autistic so its even better

My children and not much elts.

An unsuccessful suicide attempt could leave you paralyzed or turn you into a vegetable. And the worst part would be that you intentionally did it to yourself, so that would make it easy for others to not feel very sorry for you.

There's always the chance things will get better.

My death would hurt my parents & my family.
People here might wonder where I went & some may even miss me.
I don't know what would happen to my chinchilla; parents may put an add in paper or something.
I feel like my existence has done more harm than good in the world & I want to pay the deficit off & have made the world a better place.
& most important one; my girlfriend.

-I'm terrified of dying and what happens after, I don't even really believe in an after-life
-I would upset my family
-I have to be here for my friends
-I want to have a baby at some point in life
-I want to fall in love and get married
-I want to eventually have my own happy life

*You are brilliant; what you have and what you are is truly and utterly unique, and that uniqueness may be just what the world needs.
*You touch many people's lives for the better...without even knowing it.
*No one knows what the future holds; if it's brilliant, you wouldn't want to miss out on it; if it's not brilliant, maybe you could be the one to make it brilliant.
*Hey, if the universe went through the trouble of making you exist, you might as well do something with that existence.
*Because You're Extremely Rare
*Living is the only way to prove all of those who doubt you wrong and all of those who support you right.
*Someone is genuinely glad that they have known you.
*Life will be over soon enough on its own merits; no need to rush what already occurs so quickly.
*If it seems as if though life is pouring down on you, strive and succeed just to spite it.
*You're not alone. Ever. Someone, somewhere, is there for you, is hoping for your success, is understanding your pain, your sorrow, your strife, and needs your compassion as much as they need yours. We need each other; you're an integral part of the system.

*how butterflies top wings point down and rest with their wings closed. In books they are displayed open, top wings flexed like a macho man for human convenience, but their natural silhouette is like a fighter plane.
* the time I played chess and the other player captured my queen. My facebook status that day read: "played chess today. My queen just got pawned."
*my cat Mia. She's an ocicat though not a show specimen. So she doesn't look like anything special. But if you have an eye for detail, you can see what few people can. Her white chin makes her nose look smaller than it is.,she's afraid of the world and often has this startled, wide eyed look. These things, along with her leopard-like coat, make it seem like she can change from house cat to jungle cat and back. With just the turn of her head.
*a tree outside my window covered in ivy that looks like something out of Lord Of The Rings.
*If you try to draw it, the very first line on one of the limbs is the kind of like the line used to draw an octopus arm.

These are some of the things I live for...

Loving this thread

Reason's to why I'm living and trying to commit suicide was a failed attempt:

*Family- Mother went through hell and back in 8-ish months to get me into this world; Father is the one who keeps me on track all the time- Their efforts would be wasted if I was to commit suicide and also, I am my younger sister's best friend and worst enemy
*My ex would blame himself (I wouldn't want him to, he was quite a significant in my life and has taught me life lessons) and either a) Go into the most deepest state of depression he has ever been to or b) Try to commit suicide, again.
*I won't be able to travel the world!
*I will never have children and won't be able to give them everything if I was to die.

And last but not least:
*I won't be able to feel anything, ever. Happiness, love, hatred; gone.

Not really sure I guess I don't want to upset friends of family members, but then I am not entirely sure it will less upsetting for them if I keep going. Also I guess I am still kind of curious as to what the rest of my life will bring even though in my pessimistic outlook I don't think it will really get better or anything.

I'm past the age where I can ever be normal, so what I have left to live for is my art. And hope. I hope my writing makes me rich. I hope my music makes me rich. Without those I'm done.

1 am to lazy to kill self

2 I wana see what life will bring in the future.

3 Would hurt people i like if i die.