It's probably pointless and arbitrary.
I'll just enjoy the time I'm given.
It's probably pointless and arbitrary.
I'll just enjoy the time I'm given.
The meaning of life (to you) could be to: "Just be here because here is where we happen to be."
It's not that deep, really. Some people want to have an impact, others just want to chill. I'm just curious what people's first response is to that question and so far I have seen lots of interesting comments.
To crush my enemies. See them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Out of Spite.
To be the anomoly of the world.
As a "fuck you" to the Communist Party of China who didn't want me to be born for being the 2nd child.
As a "fuck you" to white supremacists and other political/reglious extremists that want me dead.
To make sure my abusive older brother doesn't get the gratification of me being dead. To call dibs on my parents assets when they die, to make sure he doesn't get my share.
To enjoy Movies, TV, Anime, read books, play videos games.
To explore the world one day.
To publish a book one day that people would want to read.
To form true friendships, real friendships.
And hopefully, when I find the financial stability and I win against depression, I kinda wanna start a family, to raise children that will grow up experiencing only happiness, and never ever ever have to experience the abuse I had when I was growing up, to bring more happiness into the world and thus making the world less sad.
There isn't one. It's a sandbox so you define your own. My own is to make my corner of life a little nicer than before I was here.
"Is this the reason why I was put in this desolate place? To find that happiness isn't a place or thing, but a person?"
It's something I read a few weeks ago. For me it's the people I love that keep me clinging to life. Making sure they're alright and taken cared for.
None that I can think of which I think it's fine. I try to just make the most out of my life doing stuff I want to do.
I tend toward the point being the journey type of thing and closely related that you are what you do (ie you define yourself by your actions). I would add to this my current intrepretation of buddhism which is mostly about acceptance of the wysiwyg universe. Morally im an ethic of least harm type.
Me personally? To enjoy it. What that means changes as I age, but I get immense pleasure from my relationships (I love hanging out with friends and family), I get a lot of satisfaction from helping others, and making people laugh. I've got some hobbies as well, and I like to travel to new places when I can. I try my best to keep my actions aligned with my principles, which leaves me with a generally clear conscience and positive self-image. I could never possibly have all the experiences that might interest me, so I cross my fingers for reincarnation, but otherwise feel I could die without much regret.
I'd say that improving as a person and leaving the world slightly better as you found it. I guess that's not meaning per-se but rather a principle to try and live up to.
I don't have the meaning, but I try to make small goals in life that will draw full picture of my life. Currently need stable job and money to move out and live alone.
To live a life full of meaning.
Aka basements, drugs, gaming, asian food, and tons of easy to find gay sex.
There isn't really any meaning or reason for it. History remembers a select few, but most people are not destined or expected to do anything more than live. I expect to be an unremarkable footnote that enjoyed a few comforts, built some furniture, and moderately positively influenced a small handful of people. I don't really have a set of grand aspirations, I just wanna do a few fun things for 30-50 more years (optimally).
I do not believe there to be a higher meaning. Nor for that fact to have particular meaning. As such, I also do not assign particular meaning to suffering. But others don't seem to enjoy it much, so I throw myself with full force against it, because why not?
Don’t be a bigger asshole than you need to be. People are STRUGGLING right now. Try not to add to that.
To know what it's like to experience/be aware of emotions and feelings most of the time.
The purpose of life is to gather data and reflect the universe around it through adaptation.
It is without intrinsic meaning but the meaning that I give to it is to try to end all suffering.
Toss me in with the "there isn't one," lot. You do or you don't do, and the brain keeps thinking until it doesn't. But I guess if I had to slap one on there, it'd be one of the most basic-level things that most all successful forms of life achieve: to propogate.
You exist because for hundreads of thousands of years things fucked, fucked, and fucked some more, until you got fucked into existance. Now go, continue the cycle, the fuckening must go on.
I don't have a meaning currently. The meaning that I was created for stopped being a thing since I was 3.
I do what I do, and every other version if me does what they do, for no reason besides that that's the way it is.
Reading The Power of Now helped with this.
There is only Now. So live for it.
to retire as early as possible so i can do the things i want instead of doing the things my employer wants.
~21 more years to go; i'm currently on track
Purpose: be the adult I wish I had/helping special needs individuals and families.
Meaning: None. If I didn’t have offspring I would die. And even that is less motivating than it used to be.
To experience existence as fully as possible. This includes every combination and variation all throughout time and space. However, while you think you are just poor little you, it's because you are experiencing disassociation from the source since your birth. Every one of us is really God, we just forgot.
So the next time you look at someone, think of it like looking at yourself in a fun house mirror: it's just another version of the truth. They are a reflection of you and you of them. The Universe is the same way.
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