Why do you do what you do?

[LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow]

I should get a medal for the most general General topic title ever.

 

Anyway so here's what I mean. Everyone does something. Be it music, or art, or writing, or sports, etc etc etc. My question for you all is...why? What motivates you to do these things? What reason do you have for it? Is it just cause you can, because it's fun, for the possibility of money or glory or attention? Why do you do what you do?

[Simping For Hina]

Because I enjoy it. I do things because I am filled with happiness and love what I do. I have to work hard, grow, and accomplish things that seem so trivial 5 years down the road, but are some of the greatest things I have ever done so far. I will never forget the feeling of what I love to do; that is why I keep doing it, to experience it more. Life is boring if you don't do anything. Life is boring if you just do the same thing. Life is boring if you don't move forward. I don't want to live a boring life.

[Dad]

Because I'm expected to.  That, and my mom is black.  She would decapitate me and feed my corpse to the gators that roam LA, and maybe the bums in the French Quarter if I didn't.  That's not a joke.

[EHN.]

Most things I do are with a goal in mind, so I guess you could say I do things with the aim of achieving that goal and having a feeling of pride and accomplishment. Of course, enjoyment is a major factor as most of the time if I don't enjoy something I'll have almost no motivation to do it.

[G4hardcore]

I do what I do ultimately because I fear at the end of life's journey, a giant cosmic space butterfly will judge me and deem me guilty of being a horrible person, damning me to suffer endlessly in the depths of a cold singularity.

On a slightly more serious note, I really feel like karma is objective, so I actually make efforts to live as free and content a life as possible, without directly or indirectly interfering with the freedoms of my fellow man, and life in general for that matter. In a way, it feels like a shadow is constantly looming over me, exerting an endless pressure to live and let live. I have a feeling that when I die, I'll find that the shadow was only ever always mine.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

"Ya'll know the rules gotta do what ya gotta do (stay true)." ~2Pac

[Zauls]

Well, I've been put on this godforsaken planet, I may as well do something with my time here.

[Johan Liebert]

I help people get through their problems and issues because that's who I am. I just have a big heart. And I've been through a lot of crap, so I feel more motivated to not let someone go through that crap too. Cutting, suicide attempts, bullying, finding out that longtime friends only stayed in your life out of pity, rumors, and a possibly stalker who constantly tries to ruin my life; I've been through all of these things. And I hate seeing other people in so much pain. It seems that the nicest people in the world get treated the worst. We have such a judgmental society. It sickens me. My lifelong goal is to stop the pain and hatred that cloud our society. I don't think it's possible, but that doesn't stop me from trying my hardest to make it possible.

[Icy]

I do various forms of art because expressing an idea is a beautiful thing.

I help people when I can and give it my all because I firmly believe that "A man is not just responsible for oneself but of those around him. To that end the betterment of others is the betterment of the self." It makes genuinely (like butterflies and hearts above my head) me happy to help others.

I dont think about caring and thus expend no energy doing so because it is simply the right thing to do.

I constantly seek new knowledge because to me questions are the best thing you can do as a person, seeking out those questions answers is the second best thing, finding something to do with those questions the third and sharing it with others the fourth.

 

I do because I am, and I like who I am.

[Thar]

I do what I do because I don't feel like doing anything else.

[Night]

I'm an artist, and with that I make art. 

 

It's actually odd, with everything I do, I like to be very procedural and ensure I plot everything out before I execute. With art though, I just love to mindlessly make shit. Some hours later I'll end up with a piece or I'll have "nothing." 

 

When I have a piece, I'm usually content, if it's good then I'm ecstatic. When I have "nothing," one would assume I'd be aggravated at the least, most people would hate to put hours into something with "nothing" to show for it. Don't get me wrong, I definitely feel that as well, but there's a certain undeniable charm to it.

 

There's nothing quite like pouring everything you've got onto a canvas only to discard it. Finished pieces are for others, the "nothing" is for me. 

[Astolfo]

Almost everything I do is for fun, save for the few things that I'm essentially forced to do, whether actually forced or pretty much pressured into (former being things like going to school everyday maybe IDK, latter being things like having to study/look into colleges because otherwise it's essentially fucking my future).

But yeah, I mostly live just for pleasure, although I'd never go into dangerous/illegal/unsafe ways of achieving said pleasure (drugs/crime/etc). I pretty much just live at my whims, and if I desire something, I work for it, if I lose interest, I usually just drop it or such.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Pressure is a downer, pretty much the source of all evil. And life, inconveniently. 

[Fusion X. Denver]

I guess I do everything that I do to succeed. Succeeding will get me a family, make my parents proud, give me a gateway to do other things I enjoy, all of that stuff.

But at the core of it all is entertainment. To entertain myself and others is what it means for me to live. I want other people to enjoy my company and get a kick out of me and I want to know people/shows/life experiences that will have that effect on me.