What do you cling to?

That's not about 'Greatest things in life' and 'Values' mentioned in Maj's thread. No 'loves', 'friends', 'families', 'money' and so on, please. It's a serious and a bit depressive question - how do many people manage to survive and push through when it looks like everything is lost? Take Freddie Mercury. A man becomes aware of the fact that women are not for him; with men he didn't have much luck, either (doubt? Were there any living beings but cats around him when he died?). He discovers being incurably sick. He is actually dying - but HAVE YOU SEEN THE LAST SEVERAL QUEEN'S VIDEOS where he is almost always shown in B/W to conceal the way he looked? Then answer - HOW and WHY? What was keeping him up to put all the strengths into the last creative days?

It is not only Freddie Mercury, though. Many people have periods of life which you couldn't simply call 'Bad Luck', when everything seems to be lost, and a man stays alone on Earth. The Those who manage to go out of it - what do they cling to to live?

That was very nice guest. It's a pity you did not use your name to accompany it.

truth is always bitter and hard to digest...bubr
but hey! you are living and enjoying life, thats nice that you have thoughts like this, but why so intellectual ? its not your age to think about life and death...
i am sorry to spoil your thread! but the idea of death breaks me up...

why would anyone feel DEPRESSED after a successful completion of anything? your perspective of seeing anything is very different Bubr!

I also thought my point of view is different until I found a 400-year old quotation that only striving for something, being unsatisfied is the only way for a man; satisfaction and calmness is a dead end way. What 400 years? Buddhism has been telling this for a much longer period!