What is the meaning of life to you?

I don't believe there is one meaning of life to fit all of us.

I think that maybe whatever you believe is your meaning of life, whatever it truly is you think you are here for, is it.

Lately I've been feeling like I am drifting, like I am alone is this sea of people with no direction.....and no compass.

I see all these people around me, all these faces. They seem so content with these lives of carefree unhappiness. At least, that's what I percieve it as. These people, running around in a panicked daze. Trying to be better than everone else. Trying to fit in and get as much money as possible to get the right things. Trying to be what society wants them to be...

And losing all sense of identity in the process.

I was in Culver's the other day and saw a table full of 13/14 year old girls. They all looked exactly the same. They all sounded exactly the same. They were wearing the same clothes and identical looks of........contentment.

It saddens me so much to see this youth wasted.

I know your meaning of life is what you make it, but is that even a meaning? Is being what you are told to be a life?

*sigh* I don't know anymore.

 

Love...

 

Life is rather meaningless, dear stranger.

Not pessimism, just fact.

You want the core animalistic meaning?

To reproduce, survive, and maintain the species.

There you go.

The meaning of my life is to live. I think I'm fulfilling it well.

 

Everyone has to figure it out for themselves.

You shouldn't feel depressed by some 13 year olds struggling to figure it out. I don't know what the meaning of life is now.

Some people find meaning to their lives when their 15. Some people never find it. Whats meaningful to someone elses life, might not be meaningful to you.

I'm not even sure if the answer matters. If struggling to find meaning to life leads you to make tough decisions, evaluate your values, put whats most important to you first, and do all that while trying to take care of other people...

Then maybe there is no meaning at all. Maybe it's just trying that matters. Even the most affluent and powerful peopel you see look at life as a struggle to survive in some sense.

A struggle that they'll lose.

Kinda beautiful. Not in a dark way, just an all encompasing sense of what it is to be alive.

 

I'd say for me it is to fulfill what it is you want do do with your life. Do what makes you happy, whatever that is. Live life to the fullest you can.

 

Your answers more succinct then mine.

 

You stated it so much better though, dear sir.

 

The meaning of life is to have the absolute dissolution of all self fears.

 

I'm kinda afraid of myself. I know Kung Fu.

 

i agree that everyone lives for their own reasons. i'm not totally sure what mine are yet, but lately i've been thinking that family would be the most important thing for me to live for. to make a family and take care of them and provide for them and raise kids and have a nice house and do the best that i can for my kids. i want to marry someone who would also be as family-oriented as me. i want someone who provides for his family and still spends time with his kids. someone who wants the best for his kids and is willing to do whatever it takes to give them the most that he can. someone who wants more than to be stuck here in o'fallon for the rest of his life.

 

For me, it's learning. To learn, gain new experiences and knowledge, new insights.

But I think it's different for everybody. Different meanings, different approaches, and that's just fine and dandy.

I think most everyone has gone through a point in their lives where they felt like life was meaningless.

 

i dont have a meaning for it atm

 

That was the answer I was afraid of getting. I have this feeling deep inside that it all amounts to nothing in the end.

Maybe I should just sit back and enjoy the ride....

 

Those are my exact views on the subject.

 

meaning schmeaning, i can tell you what i think makes life worth living, and that is to create and explore without causing suffering and harm.

and of course if you can brighten someone else's day along the way, that's all the better.

=^^=
.../\...

 

^^^^^Very true.

Making others happy is almost an artform and makes life worth living.

I guess I just basically repeated what you said.

Haha.

 

my meaning is in my sig

 

Why does life need a meaning?

 

You should ask all the followers of the Jesus the same question.

 

the meaning of life is to enjoy it while your living because you cant when your dead. thats what my mama always said anyways