Why is " I'd spend time with my loved ones " always a response to a question like "what would you do if the world should end..." etc ?

If the world was going to end why would you want to hang out with jerks?

I would want to be with the finest company and to me that is my loved ones.

On a side note- another reason to hang with loved ones is that impressing others would no longer matter.

With loved ones you can be yourself, relax and have fun.

You get to a certain age where your loved ones are what life is all about. In the interest of using one’s last hours to their fullest, most people wouldn’t want to spend more time at the office or texting on their phones.

My response would be in the form of a question: How is the world going to end? Will we know ahead of time that it’s going to happen?

Because, “I’d spend time with those I dislike” just doesn’t make any sense.

Or better yet, “I’d spend time with those I only pretend to like because I work with them.”

Yeah I’d spend most of the time in the office making sure I get those last TPS reports filed before the weekend. Might come in Saturday to catch up on my emails, maybe get started on the next big project or reorganize the office supply closet or something.

People often take their loved ones for granted, secure in the notion that they love them and are loved and go about pursuing other things: a career, usually, in America anyway.

If they had advance notice the end was to come, they would realize what their priorities should have been: forging lifelong bonds of love, which requires being with and experiencing people—not just dropping in for dinner once a month.

Why not? I sure wouldn’t want to spend the time working, cleaning house, paying bills, etc.

Definitely NOT paying bills.

“Um, hi. We here at CityGlobalCreditMonster realize the world is ending soon, but could you make an arrangement for two hundre…hello? Sir? Hello?”

Well, who else would you spend time with?

@ Dog @LindaDT @cprevite @StellarAirman Guys, that’s exactly my point… but you are not answering my specific question: ” WHY is it always an answer”....
In other words… is it because most people are too entangled in work, finance, reputation, bills, expenses, calculation, insurance, distraction… that they seem to need to consider ‘family’ the only option considerable for attention in the eventuality of an emergency as such? Do you not spend enough quality time with them already, so to fear an eventual end of everything because you wouldn’t have had enough opportunity in life to do as you wished and felt..?
That’s what I’m asking, not what would you do..
thank you anyhow for your answers..

@cprevite Lol ..
Cheers to all…

I’ll answer my own question..
” I would take refuge with the few people I care for in our mountain shed… with all necessities, perhaps some books too, leave them there set off for the hunt for food, survivors, and to find out whether the world is truly ending or if exclusion could be an option for survival. If so.. I’ll do all I can organise a hunting party, a finding party and a safe and secure habitat to ‘start over’, ready to face any kind of danger, enjoying the silence the whole world offers (finally).
I wouldn’t concentrate drastically on the simple spending time with my loved ones, because I already do that in the present and always have. So there wouldn’t be any wasted or lost time to regret. Rather I’d focus on looking for ways to keep them alive in case of necessity and emergency.

I think the reason a lot of people say it if actually asked that question is because that seems like the “right” answer. They don’t want to seem insensitive or shallow by saying they’d go out and have sex with as many people as possible, loot stores, do drugs, kill somebody, etc. “Spend time with family” is a nice generic answer that sounds like good manners and a nice friendly answer to give to such a question.

Of course a lot of people would genuinely want to spend time with family, but I think at least some people just say it to be polite.

@StellarAirman thank you, mate.. that is the type of answer and details I am looking for…
It’s good to see that brains are still working out there somewhere…

would anyone else like to stab in some more cutting observations…. ??

It seems that you already know the answer you expect to hear.

But what most people here seem to be saying is that it doesn’t matter how much or little time you have already spent with your loved ones. When finding out that the world was about to end, they would want to be with their loved ones because there won’t be more time.

You seem to be saying that when finding out the world was going to end, you would ignore your family since you have spent enough time with them and you would go out to your cabin with food and guns.

Seems like a waste of time to me if the world is going to end, but everybody has their priorities.

@fireside yes, indeed..everybody has their diverse priorities. In fact what mine is (as I said) is to safeguard them and go provide for them as long as I can . (please read my post again, it seems like wasn’t clear to you)
I see what you are saying, regards to the fact that everyone find the topic of their answer as a priority.. But that’s what YOU’RE saying For them… Now most likely everyone will post their comments similarly to yours, supporting your point of view that you’ve just expressed… and discarding mine.
I respect your comment, it’s been thought upon. I appreciate that. but it is assuming for others, that they mean what you mean.
It’s quite obvious that’s the reason why they’d spend time with their beloved at the end times, but at the root of the principal, no one yet has expressed this. Perhaps because they find it obvious and unnecessary .. That’s fine.
What I wanted to come to with this Question from the beginning is that: we should all act as if it were the last day we have when it comes to our loved ones and doing good deeds in general. It’s never too early to treat ourselves and others purely (by caring and demonstrating love), and never too late to start doing it
Yeah, in a way I knew what I wanted to expect from posts, but I also knew what I was supposed to expect.

@fireside This is what I wrote:
” ....Rather I’d focus on looking for ways to keep them alive in case of necessity and emergency.”
So you misunderstood what my priority is_ to try to keep them and whoever else I can alive as far as I (we) can. Together.

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we should all act as if it were the last day we have when it comes to our loved ones and doing good deeds in general. It’s never too early to treat ourselves and others purely (by caring and demonstrating love), and never too late to start doing it

I agree with that.

@fireside I’m glad to find that we agree… I believe we should all engage this attitude to live a better existence without regrets, mainly.