What gives you hope and inspiration in your darkest hour?

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When you're really depressed and it seems like everything is going wrong, what gives you hope and strength to go on? Obviously it isn't god so what is it?
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Mortality for a start.

Life is precious. Even more so when you know there's no sequel. I don't have the option to say, "So much for this life. Ah well, the next one will be better."

I don't know the future. Nobody does. Even those who believe in God's plan admit they don't know what that plan is. So when things look grim, you can never be certain that they'll always be that way. In tough times we have to just keep living and working so that we may see the good times when they come again, or even usher them in ourselves.

So what gives me hope and strength? The infinite potential of the world in which we live. And it doesn't need anything supernatural to be infinite.
- LX

Inspiration, especially, can

Inspiration, especially, can come from anywhere. I remember reading a story by Larry Niven (incidentally, an atheist or agnostic) which was inspired by an insurance commercial. One time I was inspired by a guy on the bus pretending to be a radio DJ. Inspiration is so much better when it's real.

A few things

People who are drug addict find themselves in comfort due to Jesus or God. Even though I too believe that's fully their will power that makes them quit, it's not to us to judge whether it is wrong or not for them to believe in something else. Since I do not believe in God the way everyone pictures, I have my own rights and wrongs. And one of my rights is simply letting people live with their happiness and beliefs. Maybe Jesus or God didn't directly make them quit, but it indirectly did because by thinking of their divine help people found a way out of drugs. And it is really clear to me that if people try believing themselves only to quit the addiction, most will fail.

Still, I felt the question was not answered but it was just worked around the central point. Have you ever felt depressed because you can't see a meaning of life that suits for you? When I start thinking of meaning of life, I feel depressed, and that depression does not go away by relying on friends or family or in myself. I've lost loved ones, and I believe I will not ever meet them again, which makes me feel depressed in sort of a way. And how relying on friends or family I will feel better? So, the way that works to make myself feel better is just to start thinking of something else and this way the bad thoughts go away. I keep myself busy, specially my mind, trying to control every thought that may bring me depression.