Lost my son and my Mother who i loved very much
2006-08-04 06:01:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:
Survival and temporal success
* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to live
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
Wisdom and knowledge
* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to expand one's perception of the world
Ethical
* ...to express compassion
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to work for justice and democracy
Religious, spiritual and esoteric
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to become God, or God-like
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
Other
* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to die, or become a martyr
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...to participate in the chain events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...(This is actually an extension of the point immediately above) There is no inherent meaning to life, existence, the universe, etc. They exist because they can. However, humans appear to inately give meaning, usually many, often conflicting, to what they are conscious of. So, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever they decide it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
2006-08-05 22:58:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so sorry for your loss...My heart and prayers go out to you. I wish I had an easy answer for you. I have ask myself many times: What is my purpose? Why is this happening? I just know that you find inner strength to go on.
I lost my husband last year to Lung Cancer, and I am loosing my mother day by day from COPD/Emphesymia. It is so difficult to go through the same exact thing only with someone else. I am so grateful that I am spending some time with my mom....I didn't get that opportunity with my husband..he went down so fast.
Day to day is how I cope. I wake up and take one day at a time. Some days are better than others. The good days I focus on. The bad days I deal with. I hate to say this...but time is the friend and foe. The days get better and the good ones start adding up.
If you have a good day...keep it good...don't feel guilty because you are having a good day. The bad days...just take it hour by hour....
Life is this road we all travel. We have our own paths, we have twist and turns and forks and lost and lots of construction. Just remember that if it was easy, then it wouldn't be worth living.
Keep your chin up and keep that faith, things do eventually get better
Robin
2006-08-04 13:12:55 · answer #2 · answered by okieblue38 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The meaning of life is to understand that at some point it all ends. To grasp the concept of learning to let go when you need to and how to remember that you can be a strong individual all by yourself, with no one being your crutch. The meaning of life is to learn from the ones you love, and yet to cherish every moment that comes your way, because at some point in our life we will reflect on that and repeat it.
2006-08-04 13:08:05 · answer #3 · answered by jad26 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is really hard and I do sympathize with you. However, death is a part of life, as cliche as it may sound, life goes on.
Whenever I feel as though eveything is going wrong, I lift myself with the following promise-
'if He brings me to it, He will bring me through it.'
I am not really religious but I do belive in a higher power that is leading me through each day. So maybe you need to go through this to be help to someone else later on.
Just hold on, hang in there and although the pain will never go away, be comforted that they are in a better place, away from all the evils of this world.
God (whomever you believe in) bless you and give you the strength to get through this.
2006-08-04 13:16:58 · answer #4 · answered by stacy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42 - sorry for that one !
I lost my mum on my thirteenth birthday.
Losing a son is hard as you are supposed to go before them.
People die & people are born. It is a lottery.
So the answer is :
It's what you make of it, not the meaning, that is important.
2006-08-04 23:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is the meaning of life. Don't you think they would have wanted you to be strong and carry on? I knoew it is not easy, but there is a lot of inner strength in you that you can use.
I wish you lots of strength.
2006-08-04 13:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by Gungnir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
things happen to us to teach us lessons and make us stronger, some people just give up...everything happens for a reason, even if it doesnt make sense for years down the road
2006-08-04 13:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by rainprincess0820 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the meaning of life is to live it well and make every second count.
2006-08-04 13:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Mel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To live, and to learn and to love..sometimes to lose and learn to live again...God Bless.
2006-08-04 13:06:53 · answer #9 · answered by Taylor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to...................
learn
2006-08-04 13:05:12 · answer #10 · answered by thinkGREEN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋