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what it means to exist

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Today i was completing an exam for uni. one of the questions was about "as human beings we are embedded in this world not only physically, but spiritualy in time and in the past and also in language through mediated expression.
in every individual they have a core that core is the power they possess to be and to become. every person has a different view on what it is for them to live and exist. this makes us express the power we have to change differently

so basically what is at your core? what do you strive for in life what do you feel is your place. is it to have the best of everything or is it just merely to make it to the next day?

please put down how you feel about this.. i am very intrigued.
from brooke
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My core is the part of me that connects me with all the energies of the universe but first and foremost to the God of my understanding. My core is the place that all goodness and spirit dwells. My core is the part of me that does not suffer but hold strong to keep me alive during times od crisis. Honestly ( and this may be too much for yoiu) Mu core is my connection to God and zjesus Christ. Not very original but you asked. I believe God instills in me perfect energies and the asks me to share that light and energy with other. Great topic to discuss.
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i believe this is very original and thank you for sharing it. im glad you felt you could.i posted this quetion because i believe not many poeple are asked it. it was a question to allow people to ask themselves. whether or not they wnated to share it is not an issue. i just wnated people to be able to ask themselves something deep. thank you very much again :> im glad that you could pick this from your soul and share it
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This is a good question.
I'm not sure what my core is anymore. When I was young, I had big plans and dreams and goals for myself, and I thought through achievement of said goals, everything would be alright.

Unfortunately for me, it seems my constant pushing to achieve actually hurt me very much with the development of an eating disorder. So maybe those goals weren't my core.

Now I'm much older and have been drifitn for quite some time. I've dropped out of school, become a drinker and overeater, and still, underneath it all, this desire to achieve knaws at me. I need to find my center, my Godhead in all of this because I don't have any and feel terrible.
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I strive for being happy. I know that sounds very general and corny but its what I want to be. I want to enjoy my family and have energy to do things I'm too weak to do now.
But right now I'm so caught up in my ED that I try to make it from day to day.
My core is my faith. I know that God loves me and I pray that he will give me the strength to become healthy.
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After pondering this for a few minutes, I found I can sum it up very shortly: I'm always striving to find the motivation to keep striving. Kind of like playing connect the dots until I make it to the end... my life has been made up of some stable, happy "dots" which I have only gotten to by wandering through the unknown. And it would be really nice if I could just stay at one dot forever, but I have to keep moving forward until all of the dots are connected...then I will see the whole picture of my life's work, and will hopefully have a better understanding of why I've been where I've been.

Sorry for the cheezy metaphor, but it just popped into my head and seemed to apply.
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Very very interesting post.
My core... This is hard. My core is where I am most relaxed. It's when I can take things in stride and not be blindsided by little things. Part of the depression that came with my ED is that I freak out over tiny normal things. But sometimes I go away for a day or two and I'm away from my usual stress and I relax enough and I feel more centered and at home. That's when I am what I believe to be myself. In life I strive to figure out who I am and where my place truly is. This is a normal part of growing up, and I still have a lot of it to do. `
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it's so easy to let urself be fooled into thinking that we are meant to just keep making it to the next day, but then arent we setting ourselves up for inevitable failure if this were the case? cuz one day, there isn't gonna be a next day...death is unavoidable....so there must be another reason for it all...and i think that we are here to learn as much as possible...not just stuff that they teach u in school...i mean learn how to love, care, appreciate, think, help out others etc.
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