Is there more to life than just having children and making money?

Answer 1

Travel....love....life experiences....family holidays....watching the tide roll in on a blustery day.....YES, Virginia, there is life to be lived!!!

Answer 2

This is what you are supposed to do anyway. Just the way you are required to eat, sleep and exercise to stay healthy, making money and having children is something you are suppose to do under all normal circumstances. You cannot give yourself extra credits for this. This is not the actual purpose but could be the beginning of your actual purpose in life – this not to say that your life has been purposeless so far. Just the way we think can make all the difference and this can change as we question. For example, the purpose of life is not in merely being born and having this life, it is in living this life and making something out it. Your purpose is now in using the money you have made and in bringing up the kids you have. Am I being too simplistic and average towards my understanding of your understanding of your life, and life in general?

Answer 3

of course there is
i don't have money and i don't want to have children (for now anyway) but i really feel my life is full.
a good conversation with friends, reading a book, a walk in the sunshine, a Sunday afternoon watching tele in bed with your loved one, flicking through old photos, drinking a hot cup of tea and listening to favourite music, a pick nick in the park, a hot bubbled bath.
they all need time but very little money.free time is one of the great values in life that we don't appreciate as much as we should. in fact most of the people are so much preoccupied in making money that they don't have time to enjoy them.
being healthy as well why do we take it for granted?
don't take for granted what you have, there are lots of people in this world that would really envy your lifestyle.
if you do feel pressured and desperate imagine how you would feel if one day you loose the thinks that now look so simple...
are they still simple?

Answer 4

This is an interesting question. Lately I have felt that my life is all about children, which is wonderful but intellectually stifling at times. I think reading and learning helps keep us sane. So does connecting with other people -- we all need our "tribe" per se.

Thanks for putting forth and interesting question that resulted in some neat answers.

Answer 5

Yes. Having money and making children. Much more fun.

Answer 6

Yes! There is living life. There is doing all the things you want to do, i.e. seeing the eifle tower in Paris, the pyramids in eygpt,

Experiencing love, finding your passion, there is so mush more to life than money.

Answer 7

Of course having friends and making time for other people.We all need money to survive but it isn't the be all and end all .I have friends with no kids and they are very happy.Life is what you make it .

Answer 8

What, you don't like a walk on a sunny day, a nice meal with friends, reading a good book, having a laugh?

Of course there's more!

Answer 9

Voodoid:

You hit the nail right on the head there! Without anime there would be nothing worth living for!

Answer 10

you bet there is. here are a few -- not by order of priority.
a. love of family
b. love of mankind.
c. good deeds to everyone.
d. advance of mankind/civilization.
e. love of nature.
f. to learn, to learn, to learn.
g. to advance the aims of a moral and just society.
and the list goes on. I do not rest my case since the list is endless -- depending on our age, sex, family life, background, social and economic status etc. Have fun...as each and everyone of those points -- is worth living for.