Halfway through 2014, whats keeping you going?

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We're a little more than half through this year. Have any of you set resolutions to follow. I devoted myself to learning mobile programming in hopes of making a living off it and get all the things I could never get with a 9-5 job. I'm practicing my drawing since I consider game development an art even for mobile games. I also want to make a manga that has the potential to be a long running anime.

whats keeping you on this wrong planet.

I'm learning Japanese so that I can read manga and watch anime normally on Crunchy roll. I'm also trying to get a drivers license and prepare myself for school because the school says that there's a possibility for an Aspie scholarship for whatever I'm good at after they give me a test. The test is kind of foreboding, and more or less a "Are you useful to society" test, but I'm hopeful that this year will be my ticket into the happy part of the real world. I don't know what I can find to do in the world, but I'm honestly looking at things the way I do in Skyrim (what quest will this person give me?).

Cheers. I really hope you succeed in the manga/artistry portion of things!

Sheer grit. There is nothing I want to live for as I have accepted that I have nothing to offer society and will never be happy. However there are too many people who would be upset by my death, so I have to hang in there for a while yet.

I'm not depressed and don't want to die, so nothing needs to keep me here. I am learning a new language and playing a lot of indie games off Steam, though.

I don't consider myself being on a ''wrong planet''.

I don't know if I would even still be alive today if I hadn't gone on anti-depressants, because I was heading towards a nervous breakdown and was very suicidal too. I didn't know if I could make it another year, plus everyone is a year older and my peers are at that age where they are settling down with partners and getting married and having kids, and I felt left behind and worthless. It was making me really depressed and I felt really bad about myself that I couldn't accept it as ''the way it is''. So in April I decided to go to see the doctor, and she said it's about time I went on anti-depressants, so I did. And yes they have worked, and I don't feel angry and suicidal any more, and they have even helped with my self-esteem and even some areas with social skills. So I am kind of swimming through this year quite smoothly.

The Kinks

health/fitness goals
financial goals
future business plans
and last, but certainly not least, my long running crush on my close friend

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I am learning about horsemanship. I find that really good for me.

I plan on receiving my Bachelor's in December and am going to give driving another chance.

I love myself and my family. That's enough for me.

I almost have my debts paid off. Then I will start saving for a homestead. I plan to buy an acre of land in Oregon and live as a hermit. I will use solar panels for electricity and a well for water and grow/raise my own food. I don't fit into NT society, nor do I want to, because it is shallow and materialistic. Go to the supermarket and there are several dozen fluffy women's magazines giving advice on diets and how to have sex, all illustrated by photos of gorgeous models and celebrities. I honestly don't know how women keep their sanity, what with all the crap thrown at them. I guess the buyers of those magazines are just as shallow as the stuff they read. Meanwhile, two of the "big three" newsmagazines have gone out of business due to lack of readers. People don't want news, they want sex and diet tips, it seems. The internet is one of the most incredible information retrieval mechanisms ever invented, and it's mainly used for porn. Porn! People don't want to keep tabs on the economy or news, they want porn. It's stuff like that that makes me want to leave society.

People with autism and just any interesting people. My work and career. Generally, learning more what I'm interested in, developing myself as an individual, and jumping at every opportunity to make a difference in someone's life.

Caffeine and endurance racing.

Live music and the people you meet at shows, my band photography, my cats and dog and my very intense fixation on all things Star Trek.

I do not make resolutions. I just merely survive. So! far I have made it because of my dog. If it were not for him I would have killed myself.