Why do you live?

Question

And don't tell me your father had no cash for the rubber automat ;)
- No, really, I'm serious. Take time to think - and give me a reason besides "for my children" or any religious stuff.

Answer 1

Good question - do I hear your synapses squirm? I don't live for my children or, God forbid, God. Many of us go on due to simple hedonism - life has very nice moments - and for those of us not in search, or need, of big answers that's enough, in part. Another ingredient is habit. Many of us fall into (often comforting but numbing) routines. And what's the option to living? Death? How? By suicide? While it's true that many choose subtler, slower ways to die than suicide, any living being this side of sheer despondency has to find self-destruction repugnant.

I live mainly because I want to see how my lifenovel ends (altho love, sex, food, travel, etc. aren't shabby reasons).

Good question, man, good question! (If you want to play online chess, write.)

Answer 2

The very first reason for all things to be, is that they CAN. You won't live much longer if for some reason you CANNOT or WANT it no longer. Okay, but being alive is ultimately a thing of purpose which is a big word that can virtually mean anything from insignificant to highly significant. We all have an inbuilt survival instinct that more than often saves our days, mostly when we're not looking and else we won't live to tell. When you look at the totality of humanity the thing of purpose becomes clearer. We do improve on a lot of things and will continue to do this. This is the very drive that moves us. If you have children the thing you want for them is to at least live a life as good as yours and hopefully a better one. So if you break all that down, we live to improve.

Answer 3

Because if you don't fight the strife of life and commit suicide or something else stupid how do you know that there isn't a afterlife or something i mean cause if there's no heaven or reincarnation death is just decaying and laying there for ever and ever. so live as long as you can cause you don't need to be famous like carcer cure but you could be the only key to keep some one else alive. So I live in hope to have as much fun as I can so I can find out the little things like how many licks to the center of a tootsie roll pop (265) or if there is true love or if stonehenge was built by aliens or something!!! Live on!

Answer 4

I wasn't suppose 2 b her---wait since i am here..I guess i was...but anywayz my mom tied her tubes& wanted 2 abort me...but I still came..she was 38- now I'm still living even though my life is crummy right now- so I can become rich and famous- and fall and love get married have children :) I have alot of things 2 do b4 I die...a long list- But it's sad..b/c sometimes i want time 2 stand still so my parents and my grandparents can live 4ever - I don't kno what i'd do without them...- I depend on others alot if my mom died 2morrow..I'd b lost- but i wanna grow up..and do everything in time for them 2 see- my mother said she hopes 2 live long enough 2 see my children & she will :)- I guess I can say I'm living for my mother

Answer 5

There are three common questions people ask of philosophy:

1. The meaning of life,
2. The aim or goal of life,
3. The purpose or use of life.

These are not all the same question. What's more, the people who ask them usually neglect to make clear whether they are asking about their or my own personal life, about human life in general, or about all life in general.

So you see that there are nine different things these three questions might be asking. Here are my answers to them:

1. Your own life has only the meaning you give it yourself, there are plenty of alternatives to choose from.
2 & 3. It follows from 1 that there is no meaning common to all human life, nor to life in general.

4. Again, your aims or goals in life are a matter for your own choice. What's the difference between meanings and goals? It is that goals can be reached, but meanings are ideals - they might not be reachable, but their reward is not in being reachable but in being pursuable and worth pursuing.

5. Human life in general might, I suggest, have three main aims: - to defeat death, to maximize knowledge, to maximize happiness.

6. Life in general would have the same ultimate aims as human life (see 5). Naturally, life has to develop human capabilties (or better!!!) to be able to do so.

7. If you want to have a purpose or use in life, that suggests selflessness, and it might be either moral selflessness (being of use to others) or immoral selflessness (self-destructive behaviour is immorally selfless).

8. Is there some use to which some outside power is putting the whole human race? One hopes not, but this is what some religious people claim - that we are all God's instruments, we exist for some inscrutible reason of God's own.

9. Does 8 apply to life in general? Again, one hopes not. And again, some religious beliefs claim so.

Answer 6

I live for the simple fact that I have yet to come to the end of my lifespan. No car has hit me, I have not been killed in an accident, I avoid dangerous situations based on my primitive instinct to survive. I have things that I can do to improve the world. Help with hunger and homeless. I invent things that would be beneficial to life. Although I have no fear of death and even welcome the end of pain, hurt trauma, loss, greed, grief, stress, I still have the natural instinct to want to survive and will never even consider ending it myself or even life life haphazardly in hopes that it will end. There is a lot of other things to live for...sex with the one you love being close to the top. But that is my opinion of course.

Answer 7

Because I want to see myself successful and have a legacy on the world when I grow up. I want to live the American dream. All I need is money for food and I'm happy.

Answer 8

Uhhh... To eat all the food and drink all the water of the earth and at the same time pollute it so that the generations to come can suffer when im dead.

Answer 9

I truly believe I came here to fulfill a purpose. In this life time I had to learn to be more caring.

Answer 10

Because the good Lord allows me to.