Why we do, what we do...

Agul

IMHO, the only real reason  is...





cymbal crash......


It's how we think we are going to feel.

We do anything, everything, just because we want to feel certain things, feel a certain way.

And that's it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Shoot.

andria

'We do what we do because of who we are.
If we did otherwise, we wouldn't have been ourselves...'

Robab

why i do what i do
because i want to do what i do

my-alja

why i do what i do?...

one quality of being assertive...i dun have to answer

ajinomotonosuga

the need of any part in any system

we are being pulled by the need of physical and non physical needs.

fish needs a pond..and cow needs grass.

a need is partly borned out of function

the police in any society is to catch a criminal, the need of secured public matching the need to have 'enemies' i.e. criminals

we can also state  a need is arisen due to our 'psyche needs' or emotional nurturing.

a child needs his or her mother, primarily.

a weak person needs a stronger person, this stronger person MAYBE NEED 'something' even himself cannot contemplate, i.e  englightenment the way Siddarta seeking the truth and abandoning materialism

A strong why will bear any how. Fulfilling a need is fulfilling a conditon that govern or dictating any event.

i have a car and i have extra money to spend, do i need to buy another car? why?

what we do must be given MEANING. we need to do so and so because so and so MEANT this and that to us.

but most of the time, what we did has no meaning at all, simply 'for fun' that is to 'filling in the emptiness of psyche'

given a choice, which is more likely u would consider?
to be stressful with lot of problems OR to be stressful without any problem ( i.e boredom)

i hate to say it that as long anyone is still breathing, problem is like a shadow to us ok?

we do something or anything simply because of a need. Need is nature endowment. And we refuse to stop the buck with nature, sky is the limit and soon we are entrapped  ourselves with our own discoveries and innovation and self destruction takes momentum.

wei_loon5063

Originally posted by andria at 9-11-2007 10:12 PM
'We do what we do because of who we are.
If we did otherwise, we wouldn't have been ourselves...'

if we are what we do,

and if we stop doing nothing, who we are?

andria

Originally posted by wei_loon5063 at 10-11-2007 12:06


if we are what we do,

and if we stop doing nothing, who we are?

Correction.

I said, 'We do what we do because of who we are.'

That is different than saying, ''If we are what we do..'

ajinomotonosuga

Originally posted by andria at 10-11-2007 03:17 PM


Correction.

I said, 'We do what we do because of who we are.'

That is different than saying, ''If we are what we do..'

we do and dont do , in order to become a whole person.

dutchy

we do what we do...so as to make sure that we're doing what we supposed to be doing here..the purpose of living


< aiyarkkk...even me peninggg >

RedAlert

We do what we do because we want to.

Yet sometimes we do stuff because other dictate us to do so...

or maybe....

we do because we want others to do what we do

....I need a break now........

Hakeme

we do because of curiosity.

Hakeme

we do because of needs and wants...

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estrellas

Why we do, what we do...

I do what I do because  I have to..to continue my life..to make things better every day~

hamizao

Do it if you think it is the right thing to do.....even to do nothing. That way you take stock  or responsibility of what you do, it's implications and consequences.

To do this, there may be several considerations such as whether  it is a reaction or simply an initiation or something intuitive?
What is it's cause and effect. The idea here is to avoid doing something on impulse and then spend the rest of your life regretting it!

SONofODIN

We are born to do something whether we like it or not.
We have responsibility to keep things going.
Human can't just sit down and do nothing.
The world has changed so rapidly because of this.

seribulan

we are only a marionnette...

hamizao

The more one think about this subject one is likely to return to the question of "life" itself...........at least it is for dear ole me.

We are given form/physical body, mind with its myriads of capabilitiies, emotive abilities and varieties of environmental and weather conditions all of which togather garner the need for us to DO something. This reminds me of the thread about work and work ethics on this board. WORK per se is something you do too especially when the times are harder to achieve living needs . The end result is, as Agul says, how we feel.............satisfaction, I might say....like in the most simplistic way, when you receive your daily bread....like when you had done unto him as he had done unto you....lepaslah geram!

Of courselah with the coming of various thinkings and moral issues.........one  needs to curb one's need for satisfaction and become more responsible in directing that need. So, if you think it's the right thing to do, then do it as opposed to membuat benda secara melulu.

ajinomotonosuga

do and providence moves along.

Agul

The way I see it, all the things that we do stem from our wants to experience certain feeling.

For example, we get a high paying jobs, we buy bigs car, big house and big wife just because we want to feel something. We think we will feel differently when get all these thing.

It牋may爏tem爁rom爋ur爊eeds to feel appreciated, safe, in control etc...

A student may study hard to get great result in national exam because he/she want to feel great, to feel successful, to get the nice feeling that copmes from perceivedly being the best in the copuntry... etc...

The businessman who bought a semi-d in Bukit Jelutong may just want to affirm his existence. His worthiness. His need to feel respected, accomplished and successful.

A kid who ask his dad to buy a shining new bicycle want to feel the exhiliration, the joy that comes from riding a new bicycles.

A women go on a shopping spree or eats fattening chocolates to self cure her loneliness, grief or sadness in her life or she may just want to feel joy and happines that she gets when doing that thing.

We buy big car so that we may feel successful, respected etc...
Vios, Camry, Accord, Audi, beemer, mercs, jags, porsche, ferrary, bentley...
Why do they buy these cars? Why do people keeps upgrading their car? They pay more to get the feeling that they燽elieve爐hey爓ill get from driving them.

A fanatic biker gets a harley, ducati 1098 , bmw k1200rs,honda goldwing because they want to get the feeling they experience from riding them.

Many religious people do religious because he/she want to feel that he/she have dione something good. To feel that they are doing good things. To feel holy,爎ighteous and maybe spiritual.

Why do people get married and have kids? They may want to feel safe, to feel the爈ove,燾omfort爋r爁amiliarities爐hey爂et爁rom爐he爄nstitution爄tself.

hamizao

Hmmm...same with  the ascetic looking the other way for experience.

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