What is a purpose of my life?

Answer 1

To live, love, reproduce and prosper.

Answer 2

That is a one person, one vote question. The one-size-fits-all answer is so genreal it is banal.
Here is the one size:
Everyone who has the wits to ask the question has to figure it out for himself. You can ask questions, read lots of books, and pray or meditate for guidance, but it is in the end up to you to GIVE yourself a purpose. Purpose given to you by someone else is a job, or chore, or duty, or something else. It is not your purpose.
If you give yourself a purpose-driven life, decisions are easier, and your life means something--at least to you. Who else? Maybe no one, but you can look in the mirror and say you did what you set out to do.
To be more specific: Your purpose is the thing (s) or ideas that motivates you to get up in the morning. It could be love of a particular person, or to be as debauched as possible before your body falls apart. It could be adding another 5 inches to your ball of string or to move to Africa and save AIDS babies.
It might be writing a novel- because you HAVE to, or holding your mother's hand while she dies.
You get to decide.
Sometimes you can do several things at once that make you feel alive and happy. Like you believe in being there for your family so you will hold your mother's hand WHiLE you write a book about dying. Or saving kids helps you to feel more a part of the human family--
If you give your power to choose your life away, then you will sleep-walk these 70+ years, and still die. Why not make an impact that YOU choose?
Whatever- dream about what you would do if you weren't afraid- if you had everything you need to do it- and had only 3 years to get it done. What would you do today to make it happen?
There--- that is YOUR purpose.
Good luck.

Answer 3

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

Answer 4

Everybody has a purpose in a life. Just go on with life. Suffer a bit. Learn a bit. Experience a bit. Love a bit. Whether you bake cakes for the community or teach poverised kids you have a purpose. And you are fulfilling it.

Answer 5

To sit on Yahoo Answers and ask a bunch of 13-year-olds what your purpose in life is.

Answer 6

You must learn, but not join in. Listen but not add. The best way to live is to just be neutral. If you stray from being non-judgmental, the chances are you will join a racist group, gangs, religion, and many other that claim by joining your being "indavidual." In order to be yourself, is to be the main eye that not only see's through the eyeball, but out of every pore in your body. That means race is not important, body type, the colour of souls, or the flesh that seems improperly put together.
Through all this you will learn that humans actually don't know what their doing. The words said arn't understood, the songs sang without meaning, actions made without thinking.
Thus the famous phrase from the fictional caractor "Jesus," "They know not what they do."
As soon as you realize that only one out of a hundred people are sane and awake, you will also realize that you don't want to hurt people or attack them in any way, shape, or form. Sometimes you will see a human being boasting hurtfull nonsense being punched or attacked, then suddenly being scared and asking,"Why are you hurting me????"
Remember, "They know not what they do."

Answer 7

If any of us had that answer, we would be nominated for a Nobel peace prize....there is no owners manual that comes with us...we just fly by, by the seat of our pants, hoping that what we learn along the way leads us to inner happiness....success that satisfies that you left an imprint, and that our existence on this planet, meant something...that someone remembers us for a while...that we aren't so easily forgotten......that we mattered.....we weren't just here for a short stay, but here for the long ride....and we made some kind of difference or left a legacy...what we leave behind...just not forgotten....like those before us....that we made a difference....

Answer 8

Ours existence are to compete with other intelligent lifeform for archieving our ultimate goal to live longer, happier and to find a real purpose in life itself...which is to explore and conquer the vast universe from the smallest particles to the infinity of space and time.....

Answer 9

You are here means to get fame. This is what I think but you better know your purpose of life.

Answer 10

read the book, "A Purpose Driven Life"

Answer 11

To vote my answer as the best. Then once your life's purpose is complete, you should be off the hook -- go have fun!