Do you live for yourself or for others?
 

Small question with a not so simple answer ;)

I live for my wife and kids ...but I consider that myself

and it should IMHO :thumbsup :thumbsup

I live to live, nothing more nothing less

I live to live, nothing more nothing less

For the love of money... $$$ :pimp

True pimpin'... I live for me and a couple of loved ones.

that is a sweet answer! your wife and kids are lucky to have U

I live for myself.


But I like to help make other people's lives easier.





(1,000th post baby!!!)

congrats

For my family

I live for my family, parents, son and husband.:)

I live my life for me and my family(wife and kids)

True dat & Gratz.

:thumbsup

Anybody that answers that lives for a "piece of paper", seriously needs to look into their prioritys...eh

congrats :thumbsup :thumbsup

Got to be for others :winkwink:

People matter far more than much else. Superfluous material stuff like the latest car etc has little to do with "actually" living.

Only my :2 cents: worth - and probably simplified a lot. There are two types of people - takers and givers. A taker knows no bounds and appears to live for self-gratification 24 hours/day. There are "takers" everywhere - even in stuff like a commercial partnership/shareholding scenario. Kinda funny in a way - they are like small birds with their mouths open asking to be fed :winkwink:

Flip side is "givers" - there are some massive givers around, but most have been like that all their lives. Often they live fairly modest lifestyles, despite having millions or billions - or very little. Hard to say, but inclined to ally with the givers - not least because they generally are also "doer's" and appear to be more constructive.

I live for the good times with family and friends, and for the achievement of life goals.

You ask a very profound question, Rui. It is a basic question on which whole ECONOMIC and SPIRITUAL/PHILOSOPHICAL systems are based on and are fought over.

MOST of religion is based on the idea of TRANSENDENCE...of living for something other than yourself. This may arise from a HIGHER REALITY that is greater than the individual OR (as some might argue) the greater SELFISHNESS of the group over the individual. There's still a debate among scientists whether such a thing as REAL altruism (altruism for organisms that don't have your genes or even belong to the same species as you) exists...

Regardless, when we die, I can guarantee 99% that we will be evaluated and REMEMBERED by the larger society (outside our group of friends and family) not so much for what we did for ourselves but but for what we did for others.

One thing is clearer though.... in terms of economics, living for one's self yields greater and better results than living for others. Just compare CAPITALISM with COMMUNISM and you'll get my drift.

living for my family is living for myself

Others first, I take a distant backseat to anyone I call a true friend. If I had a dime left to my name, my friend knows he has a nickel of that if he/she needs it.

I live for *******...

3/10.........

She gets me horny...

unfortunitley i live for myself until i find someone

100% agreed.

You will :thumbsup

it's a well known fact that once you have children you don't live for yourself any more... i enjoy living for ME, MYSELF and I

I live for my cat

for others - my familly and parents. And very often i want to die, but keep liveng for them.

myself. but if people love you, then you are kind of living for them, too, because they would be really upset if you died. i suppose.

I live for my wife and kids. I'm not sure they share that sentiment sometimes.

yea.......

this is true. And the more contacts, really close contact you get, the more difficult for you to leave the place, to live for yourself. You live for them.

for us : the love of my life and me, in that order :)

When all I do is work and sleep, which, having been a workaholic since I was a kid, has been most of my life, things work out pretty well. I'm not sure that is living for myself exactly, there just isn't anyone else around to worry about.

The few times I have taken a stab at a "normal" life I have maybe gone too far in the other direction, putting whoever I'm with way up on a pedestal. The results have been dismal, so I don't recommend doing the same :)

for others.. my familia

i live for tomorrow


and my mommy...

i live for tomorrow


and my mommy...

Live for family

congratz on your first K :)

For my family

I don't know. I guess I live for myself in the attempt to show others (important people in my life) that i'm not a total fuck up. I guess its better then any other reason. You need drive and desire and thats gotta come from somewhere.

I doubt many people that said they life for themselfs actualy do so..more like they are slaves of certain habits, addictions,etc..

i live for myself then second for my loveones! it will always start to yourself... like respect!

my family, my friends, my boyfriend, and moi...

dont listen to your ipod outside during a lightening storm

I live for God

j/k but He's my buddy