What is the purpose of living?

Question

What is the purpose of living for a man who has failed in his career, lost his job, ditched by his loved ones, can't eat good food because he is too poor, can't make the world a better place. Can he still be happy? That's hard. Most likely he's depressed. So what then is the purpose of living? I don't know

Don't give me some religious bullshit. I have enough of "the purpose of life is to follow God" I won't follow a thing which I can't see, feel, know, touch, love, hate, talk to etc...He won't reply and I will feel just as depressed.

Answer 1

sound like I'm not the only one who suffer such pain... the funny thing is, your problems look really small to me!
I've got an Addicted Father who's got zillion dollars Debts and the funny part I have to pay them back -I granted that in curt to make him free- I also have an addicted brother who steal things!, I tried to do everything I could, to make-I don't know the right word- not addicted... my mother has heart problems and blah blah blah.....
I'm about to loosing my job-after 3 years of heard work- "and after I just got promoted" and guess what? my little brother just said that he sexualy harassed!! couple of times in past few years -he's just 15 years old- ((my familys are living in a very bad neighbor in another city, I moved to capital 5 years ago))... I have to manage all of them -and mine- while I don't have anything, repeat anything in this whole world interesting, my last Date was about 2 years ago, I just lost 14 KG weight in past 3 years! and so on.... I don't even have any GOD to help me... I'm a rationalist (agnostics) and i can not believe a god in my heart!! i just can't... and believe me, it's a lot harder with even no god!!! funny thing is, I still living and I personally don't kow why?!?!? I just always face the facts and problems and chalenge them... I REALLY WANT AND NEED TO NOT LIVE ANYMORE!!! By the way, I'm 25 years old!! I'm great at my job, and I got promoted 4 times in last 3 years! now, I'm vice presedent of a department in a bank! I even don't know why am i telling this online!! I always have to keep such things in myself cause of my dignity blah blah blah.... i even can not cry ..... just... surviving.. and don't know why????

Answer 2

I think you are the only one who can answer that. I can tell you my purpose, or someone else could tell you their's. I cant say that I have been exactly where you are now, but I have been close. I found that no matter how bad life gets. That there is someone who's life you have touched or made better, while being here. Sometimes as humans we dont see the bigger picture. Once things hit the bottom, we automaticly feel like we no longer have a reason. I believe in GOd, as to where you do not. I am not trying to tell how to believe by any means. I think there comes in a point in life, when we do get that second chance and unfortunatly we dont always see, because we close our way of thinking. One door never closes without another one opening. Maybe this is your second chance, time to sort somethings out in your life, to get back on the right track. BEst of luck.

Answer 3

This is your wake up call. But like many, you must hit rock bottom before you will listen. I've been there too.

Happiness is a decision that you make on your own. It is your choice. One purpose of life is learning. Another way to have purpose is to set goals. Decide on something to live for. Have patience, as you cannot go from 0 to 100 over night.

Failure is only permanent if you allow it to be. Thomas Edison was once asked by a reporter how he could keep trying after he failed 700+ times to make a working light bulb. He replied, "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."

Choose another career, get another job, communicate with your loved ones and mend your differences. Col Sanders didn't start KFC until he was 65 years old, failed in business, and completely broke. Orville Redenbacher, of popcorn fame, tried tens of thousands of hybrid strands of popcorn before achieving success.

Want to eat good food? Work in a restaurant. I've worked in many steakhouses serving some of the best beef available in the world and with my employee discount can eat good steaks for what a combo meal at McDonald's costs.

Again the choice is yours. You can wallow in your misery or get off your rear and start working to improve your life.

Answer 4

I was married for more than 34 years to the most wonderful woman in the world. (high school sweetheart). We worked hard all our lives and together had two sons. We planned our future and finally, with retirement in sight prepared for those wonderful relaxing years. Then out of nowhere my wife became ill with breast cancer. Four years later she was gone. At age 55 I, along with my two sons found ourselves without a wife and mother. It's be five years and every day I ask myself the same question. What was the purpose of all that planning, all that joy and anticipation. Then I began to realize that I was just one of countless people who have endured such pain. It still didn't answer my question and it still didn't prove that there was a God. It just seems to me that someone as beautiful as my wife could not have been created by chance. That there is something or someone a lot smarter than me in control of things. Believe what you will but unless we believe in something than we really don't have a purpose. I'd like to think that there is some purpose in life no matter how small it may be.

Answer 5

The man should stop feeling sorry for himself. Start enjoying life. Get a job and conciliate with family. Happiness is in the eye of the beholder. The man should stop looking at the black and white and enjoy the gray.

Answer 6

you can easily just be a weakling and give it all up..or know and understand that all hurdle is just an other opportunity to get to a higher level of understanding and its really just a temporary struggle..you are not helping at all by feeling sorry for yourself..we are all alone in this ugly world i dont care who you are or how big your family is..so get off your *** and do something good for yourself for a change..life is a roller coaster ride ..get used to it and you will be a much happier person..god even if he did exist at some point ..has stoped lisstening to us whine a along time ago..so be your own fortunes creator and dont think or talk like it's all awaste...this too shall pass..i promise.

Answer 7

I never really thought of having a purpose.. I feel like I have one just don't know what it is yet.

Answer 8

I don't know about you and everyone else, but I come to earth to live, learn, grow, and evolve. I have come many times as different people in the past. This time I am a petite Asian woman. Each time I come I choose my parents. I also choose certain major circumstances or events in my life like disease, loss, heartbreak. I choose to experience them here, because those things do not exist where I am from. I know that this life on earth is only an illusion and nothing can truly harm me. I choose to forget my divine nature and abilities in order to live as a limited human being. I swear an oath to pretend that time exists. I also pretend that I am seperate and independent of all other living beings. But in truth, I am connected to you and everyone else, along with every other living creature on this planet and in heaven. I am not afraid of hell or damnation because they have no torment for me. As a godlike being, I can simply laugh and walk out of any hell. There is no suffering. Sometimes I get sad when I see everyone fighting and arguing, when I know that we are all connected. It does not happen when we are home. We are one. I know that I am a part of God and so are you, regardless of beliefs. I know that as a Buddhist, I am connected to the Christian, who is part of the Atheist, who belongs to the Muslim, who is the one with the Hindu. Division is only an illusion. After I live my life here, my physical body dies and drops off me like a bathrobe hitting the floor. I return to my source in heaven. I remember my origin. I am static and transient at the same time. I am omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, just as you are. I am one. I get pretty disgusted at religious bullsh*t that people try to force on others with fear. I generally just live my life and keep quiet about the things I know. This time, I decided to venture out and write this, knowing that everyone will take it with a grain of salt.

How about you?

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Answer 9

Like you, I have no time for religious bs. Candidly, I don't see any 'purpose' to life, so just try to enjoy what you can. This may mean taking anti-depressants in order to help dupe yourself into believing life is worth it.

My attitude is: don't let the bastards see you sweat.

Answer 10

for me it is to don't let the son of a bitches who held you down have the satisfaction of watching you fall, fight hard, live another day and prove them all wrong. But I am probably more cynical than the next guy.