What's the aim of life?

Answer 1

Enjoy yourself while you can because before you know it, you're old and feeble, and there's no going back.

Answer 2

Life has only the meaning you give it yourself. You can choose your own goals and values, your own ends and means. Basically, there are three sorts of alternative, and each has both positive and negative 'roads' to take.

One, you can live life selfishly. This, from a moral point of view, is negative - looking out at all times for 'number one'. But it need not be negative - not if you have a special ability or high degree of ability (say, in art) and you concentrate on developing that ability in a way that is 'selfish' in the short term but is likely to make a contribution to human good in the long term.

Two, you can invest yourself in others. This can range from simply concentrating on being a good parent, to being a dedicated contributor to some community or some organization, whether it be a political party, a commercial company, etc. But the negative side of this is that you might, in the latter part of your life, find that the group you have dedicated yourself to has not appreciated your contribution, or has changed negatively from what it was despite your efforts, and you might, when it is too late, regret not indulging yourself a little more than you did.

Thirdly, you can turn away from both self and others and, negatively, abandon any attempt to be a moral person, letting yourself be ruled by your emotions or appetites, to the cost of both yourself and those around you. Or, positively, become one of those intensely 'practical' people who 'get things done' in the purely physical sense (but are good for little else).

Of course, it is possible to combine elements of each of the three basic alternatives - though it probably isn't advisible, for sanity's sake, to combine both negative and positive roads.

Life is about choices. Your life is about your choices.

Answer 3

While happiness/pleasure is a common answer, it strikes me as too egocentric. We are an integral part of something much greater here in the world, and we cannot commune with this great thing by merely embracing a simple physiological effect.

OUR aim is to develop and exploit our understanding of reality in order to mold the world into something closer to heaven in which our future children enjoy a higher quality of life. We should move our knowledge towards truth, ourselves toward God (an all knowing, all loving, all powerful being), and the world towards heaven. Each of these processes has an associated methodology. Thats enough here though.

Answer 4

1. Death.
2. Seek what the meaning of life.
3. Seek why live.
4. Seek truth.
5. Seek happiness.
6. To life.
7. Seek somethink that won't be yours after your death.
8. Enjoyment of life.

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so life is for fun.
the aim of life is have fun while you life,
die when death comes.

Answer 5

The aim of life is to leave a name which everybody should remember in good sense and strive to qualify for heaven and not to hell

Answer 6

Aristotle would say that the aim of life is happiness, and for Aquinas, happiness in God.

I would also go with these two and say that HAPPINESS is the goal of life. Life is meant to be lived and happiness is the natural end to which we look forward in life.

Answer 7

It's what you aim for in life that is important. And life is what you make it.

Answer 8

To make the best out of Life.

Answer 9

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Answer 10

Nature: reproduce, die

General aim of life: get a spouse,get an income, have kids, live together, die

Answer 11

For this question, assuming we mean human life on Earth:

WE agreed to BE "here" to understand the REASON for creating THIS level of awareness:

"What is the nature of love, where love seems not to be?"