Quote Originally Posted by Pablo Honey View Post
My answer:

Shut up and get on with it.
Despite the shortness of this responce, I agree with it.

In this day and age, you just can't afford to stand around and think too much about existence, because in the long-run, it's pointless. If you think about it, all you end up doing is piling more and more stress on whenever something depressing happens. Life has it's up and downs, you just get on with it, whether or not you have a set list of reasons.
On another note, I guess this thread borders onto "if you had no reason toe xist, would you commit suicide?". Honestly, it would depend on how long I'd been a drifting wreck for. I can deal, not always well, but I can. I have many things to live for, even if I can't make a great deal of contribution to much of anything in my current state.
As for suicide, though... Well, I don't think it's cowardly or selfish really. Some people get seriously dropped into the shit and have no logical way out. I would hate for somebody I love to commit suicide, and I would think of them as selfish. But I would eventually come to accept the fact that they reached the point where there were no other choice, and I would love them just the same.

So, do I need a reason to exist? In a way, yes. I like to have something to work for and fall back on when I'm down, everybody does. On the other hand, though, I lived without much of a cause for a long time before... it was tougher, but I managed.