Because you can fall in love, not necessarily with the right person, but important is the feeling that gives you a state of euphoria at the moment.ġ0. Because every day you learn something new and meet new people, new places, new mottos of life.ĩ. Because it’s not the first time you’ve taken a shot in the ass, and if you’re okay and you remember the sutures you’ve received so far, they were just a few steps ahead.Ĩ. Because a road is charming depending on the person you are travelling with.ħ. Because you can travel wherever you want, the only condition being your will and budget.Ħ. Because there are little things to enjoy: a gift, a smile, a pleasure.ĥ. Because you have to make others happy so that you can be happy.Ĥ. Because you have been given a mission that you must fulfil not only for yourself but also for those around you.ģ. Stay alive because you can breathe, see and admire nature, hear and understand music’s messages.Ģ. Reasons why it’s worth living your life, a kind of list to look at on dark days and remember that you still have many things to do and those bad days come and go. Today I thought I’d make you a list of reasons to stay alive.

We hope that you can find that reason in this article. There are days when everything around us seems to lead to an abyss we forget why we are still vital when suddenly a basis appears that gives us the strength to move on.

We’re essentially still cavemen, struggling to make sense of this endless information that we’re being bombarded with.Today we wanted to share with you his list of reasons to stay alive. Our phones are being updated but our brains haven’t changed much in 150,000 generations. Matt Haig: This generation seems to be suffering more than ever, and I think it’s because we’re living in a rapidly changing world of 24-hour Tesco, breaking news and social media. Why do you think young men in particular appear to be so susceptible?

Men's Health: Seventy-five per cent of all mental health problems are diagnosed by age 24, which is when you first felt the symptoms of depression. In it, Haig explores the combined anxiety and depression that has plagued him for 17 years, with the hope that doing so will help others to open up, before it’s too late. His first non-fiction book, Reasons to Stay Alive, is slightly darker stuff. What to Do If You Think Your Mate Is Suicidalĭelve into any of Matt Haig’s novels and it’s clear he is a man with humour at the forefront of his mind – from his canine reworking of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 in The Last Family in England, to the alien-cum-university-lecturer of The Humans.

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