What Are Your Daily Essentials?

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The thread explores personal essentials that participants feel they cannot live without, focusing on non-obvious items beyond basic needs like food and water. The discussion includes a variety of personal preferences and emotional connections.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants mention the importance of communication with loved ones, such as a girlfriend or boyfriend.
  • Several participants express a strong attachment to specific beverages, like coffee and orange juice, while questioning whether these fall under basic needs.
  • There are claims about the necessity of personal items like a good pen and notebook, as well as the ability to smile.
  • Some participants highlight emotional and existential needs, such as self-acceptance and the awareness of the universe.
  • Winter is mentioned multiple times as an essential aspect of life by several participants, with some humorously noting its dangers.
  • Music, running, and specific foods like curry and beer are also listed as essentials by various participants.
  • One participant humorously states they cannot live without their body, which is challenged by another participant for breaking the thread's rules.
  • There are playful exchanges about cultural observations, particularly regarding British cuisine and experiences in Bristol.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a wide range of personal essentials, with no clear consensus on what constitutes an essential item. The discussion remains open-ended with various competing views on personal needs.

Contextual Notes

Some claims are made in jest or with humor, which may affect the seriousness of the contributions. The discussion includes personal anecdotes and cultural references that may not apply universally.

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Readers interested in personal reflections, cultural differences, and the subjective nature of essentials in daily life may find this discussion engaging.

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I'm just starting another thread, and hopefully a fun one too.

So, what can't you live without?

For me I have the following list, which I might add later with the insight of others.

1. The "User CP" option on PF because I would never be able to keep track of all my posts.
2. Lately, I can't make it through the day without communication with my gf. Never had a gf like that before, weird.
3. I can't live without Orange Juice.
4. I can't live without laughing.
5. I can't live without annoying my brother a million times a day. It's so much fun.

Try to avoid the obvious, like food and water.
 
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JasonRox said:
I'm just starting another thread, and hopefully a fun one too.

So, what can't you live without?

For me I have the following list, which I might add later with the insight of others.

1. The "User CP" option on PF because I would never be able to keep track of all my posts.
2. Lately, I can't make it through the day without communication with my gf. Never had a gf like that before, weird.
3. I can't live without Orange Juice.
4. I can't live without laughing.
5. I can't live without annoying my brother a million times a day. It's so much fun.

Try to avoid the obvious, like food and water.

Yeah, it was all a ruse so you could share #2. That's wonderful! :smile:

1) I can't live without coffee, or does that fall under the food and water category? Then again, you snuck orange juice into your list, so I guess it's okay.

2) Best friends.

3) Staying warm.

I think that about covers the essentials for me.
 
1. I can't live without a pen that doesn't have smeary ink (lefty) and a good notebook to write in.
2. I can't live without having the ability to smile.
3. I can't live without knowing there's a whole universe out there, filled with faraway places I've never been, stars I've yet to examine, and knowledge I've yet to learn.
4. I can't live without knowing I am who I am and accepting who that person is. This is because before you live with anything you have to live with yourself.
 
Moonbear said:
1) I can't live without coffee, or does that fall under the food and water category? Then again, you snuck orange juice into your list, so I guess it's okay.

I guess I have to let that one slide. :biggrin:

I was thinking of saying being warm all the time, but that would contradict some of the things I enjoy.

So for number 6...

I can't live without winter!
 
i can not live without my body
 
spender said:
i can not live without my body

You broke the rule. :cry:
 
cant live without gravity, don't like flying off to space
 
Can't live without music
 
JasonRox said:
I can't live without winter!

Ha ha, the first thing I thought of was how many people die every year from winter.
 
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i cannot live without my Chem book by P.W.Atkins

i cannot live without getting angry every day for no/all reasons

i cannot live without noodles

i cannot live without listening to chopin
 
  • #11
- Coca Cola (yes, it's bad, but it's oh so true)
- My guitar
- Good, fresh air
- Curry & Beer

The last two go hand in hand. And I've gone for long periods without the middle two, but that wasn't living, that was existing.
 
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Mk said:
Ha ha, the first thing I thought of was how many people die every year from winter.

I love winter.

Note: More people probably die in the summer than winter. You'd be darn surprised.
 
  • #13
I can't live without running. (or, failing that, at least bicycling)
 
  • #14
JasonRox said:
2. Lately, I can't make it through the day without communication with my gf. Never had a gf like that before, weird.
Can't live without your gf too. :biggrin:
 
  • #15
lol Artman.

I can live without anything, except for water and food.
 
  • #16
I can't live without my fan (the kind that blows air).

JasonRox said:
2. Lately, I can't make it through the day without communication with my gf. Never had a gf like that before, weird.
I wish I had a bf that felt that way. :frown:
 
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brewnog said:
- Curry & Beer

No doubt about it, you're definitely British! :biggrin: That was one of those things I found charmingly amusing about Bristol (only British town/city I've visited), you could predict that if you passed a pub, of which there were plenty, within one or two doors down, you'd pass an Indian restaurant.

As an aside, Bristol was very pretty, even if the streets seem laid out according to wherever the cattle felt like wandering at some point in history, LOL...yes, I got lost there, well, not exactly lost, I knew where the hotel was relative to where I was, could even point in the right direction, but couldn't find a street that would take me that direction. Kept saying, we just need to find a right turn (I was walking with someone else), but then I'd take a right turn, and the street would start to curve left again. Finally I found someone who wasn't in a pub who pointed us to a walking path through a park!
 
  • #18
I can't live without moonbear's undying love.
*taps playing in background*
 
  • #19
Chi Meson said:
I can't live without running. (or, failing that, at least bicycling)

Are you a fugitive?
 

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