Good question as ther is much to be learned from others. And I take it that this question comes truly from your heart.

For me, I value the present and all that is present. For I realize that my experience of the present can only expand more. More and more and more. There's no end to it. But it's not often that I even remember to try............. To desire and to have aims is life.

Hi everyone!! I'm new here, I guess I can also give you my values/motivations/etc. My name is David and I'm Spanish...

I know it might sound a bit demagogic, but that's all my brain can give:

So, what are my values? In my case that's not an easy question, my values change constantly depending on my expierence on life as is, so i think there shouldn't be many permanent values but "morphing" ideas like this one. Nowadays, it's FAR TOO ¿comfortable? (is that the right word?) to simply base your life in a set of ideas belonging to a pre-defined philosophycal, ideology, even on tribal or "social class" behaviours (IMHO, of course) without considering its roots or intentions from scratch (if possible). For sure, as rational and social beings, there seems to be a "natural" (or perhaps residual) and quite imperative attraction for belonging to certain patterns of behaviour/set of values depending on our surrounding conditions and education and of course, genetics, but i'd rather think it's ALWAYS better to work things out taking one step beyond, and questioning everything that is suposed to be "right" or "wrong", since it might be "wrong" here in this place, but perhaps it's "right" somewhere else, then try and balance the two concepts/visions of life and get out of them a positive and valid conclusion, adequate to one's present time-space situation. To me, life should be a research on "how to live" more than a "race to get the most out of it without considering the circunstances".

Anyway, i try to base my acts on these (among others):

- Respect to others (no ¿pre-judging?)

- Dialogue and as much universal understanding (things that ARE) as one can get.

- Not becoming a too serious person, nor taking life too seriously when bad things get to happen

- We won't get out of here anyway, so do your best and enjoy all you've been given (time included)

- Not falling on self-victimism, sometimes it's a way of self-destruction.

- Socialise all acquired knowledge the best way I know: comunicating.

- Self-criticism or self-evaluation.

- Live your present, but think about the results of your actions in the future before doing anything... I know it sounds less poetic than "LIVE THE PRESENT!!" or "DIE YOUNG!!" but poetry is poetry and present reality is present reality.

- An extension to the previous statement, a local saying that goes something like: "count to 1000 before saying anything"

My goals are:

- Become a better programmer, of course
- Get involved in my hobbies, which are my personal fuel, and contribute to them as much as i can
- Finish my studies
- Never stop learning from everything and everyone

In few words: "Stop complaining and at least try and become who you want to become" -> THAT'S WHAT I TRY TO DO EVERYDAY.

It's a pitty many of us are not that good at it yet...

My values? Well I beleive in the individual freedom to act as you feel correct. I hope that one day we'll all live in respect of not only ourselves but our places in society. Break down the barriers of consumeristic placement...you need to be this, you need to but that, to be happy...screw all that. What I need is open space and quiet sometimes and loud screaming cities congestion at others. We are a new diamond generation and there's no diamond that exist with only one faccet.

What do I want out of life and how do I plan to get it? Pleasure by any means necessary. This is, incidentally, true of every human being on this planet. Even if I throw myself on a grenade ("self-sacrifice"), I'm doing it because it pleases me to be the kind of person who throws himself on a grenade. All of our motivations, desires and beliefs are based on the drive to experience pleasure; we have no other motivations. What we do have, is a mind that has nothing else to do with itself but think of complicated structures and patterns into which it can fit this pleasure drive, so it invents functionally impossible ideas like "altruism".