The purpose of life.?

Question

Sometimes to me,it feels that 'what's the point in life ?Just learn,make career & get married & have children & lookafter for them.We miss the purpose of life in this fast tracked world.What do you think is the purpose of life ?

Answer 1

If it only takes one person to change a life, why can't one person change the world?

Answer 2

For me the purpose of life : -
To recognise and appreciate the existence of the Creator and seek to get to know Him better.
To persue happiness through enaging in activities that are both rewarding and fullfilling...e.g the kind that gives one a sense of success and accomplishment.
To be a reliable member of the society.That is my community can count on me either in times of joy or sorrow.
Lastly to strive and invest in peoples hearts by way of being generous,charitable,compassionate etc

Answer 3

The purpose of life is to enjoy what you have while you have it. I personally believe in an afterlife, and I feel that if I can keep my memories of this life, It won't matter where I end up.

Life is full of mysticism, wonder, and magic, and all you really have to do is look for it

Answer 4

most of us will not comprehend the purpose for our lives here until after our time here is over and we transcend to the next, and even then we may not be fully enlightened to the prospect of it all. And every body's purpose may be different.

Answer 5

To make your life worthy by being a good human being, helping those in need, learning to respect everyone, having children and teaching them those values that will help them become good human beings too.

Answer 6

To do good with no ill motives and pass that belief to our children. lf everyone will do it, discrimination of any kind will be wiped out.

Just don't want to sound preachy to you but, having a deep faith in God helps you find your direction. lt helped me when depression sets in.
All the best.

Answer 7

Carl Sagan said, "If you want your life to have significance, do something significant." For me, that means passing on my genetic heritage (done that), and increasing the world's store of knowledge (which is why I am here).

Answer 8

People are always talking about "purpose of life". Sometimes that's something we discover unexpectedly. Sometimes its something we look for. Sometimes its something we have to assume we'll never understand. Sometimes its something we've always known. It depends on the person and the circumstances.

Some people can find mean in just about everything they do. They see that having children isn't just "looking after them". Its building people, and - who knows - one of those people could be the one to find a cure for cancer or to have a child who will. Even if people just have children who grow up to be decent people in this world, doesn't experiencing that overwhelming love for one's children count as "purpose" in some way? Doesn't being a great parent count as "purpose"? Doesn't whatever we do for work contribute to something in the world in some way? I don't think "fast tracked" has to equal a meaningless life unless you let it.

I tend to think the purpose in "all of life" (the big picture) is aimed at a perfect world, where nobody is hungry or at war or violent - that world of "life everlasting" we've heard about (in a different context) with no more violence and hunger.

On an individual basis, I think each person is supposed to do the best job he can and be of the highest character he can, and live his life while at the same time considering what ways he may be able to do something good for someone else (or a bunch of people) or even make the world a better place in some small way.
Maybe in time we get to figure out our purpose. Maybe we don't.

People who are spiritual by nature (not necessarily religious in any way) tend to use their spirituality as a guide to purpose.

There's a part of me, though, that thinks, "Hey. You know what. If there's no purpose to my life other than the fact that I made my parents happy because they had me and the fact that I love my own kids as much as I do - so what." Why do need there to be purpose? What's wrong with no purpose? We're here. We do our thing. We enjoy some things, learn some things, go through things, etc. Maybe those things, in themselves, are all the purpose we need.

Sometimes I imagine how if there's God He would tell people, "Look. I gave you life. Go with it. Do you best. I'll let you know when you need to figure out anything about purpose." Sometimes I think God doesn't want us questionning purpose. Instead, maybe He wants us to be the best we can, do the best we can, and try to live lives that contribute something without giving into the egotistical tendency of needing to feel more important than we are. I tend to believe we aren't supposed to question this gift of life we've been given in terms of purpose.

If you feel connected to other people in the world then you kind of assume your existence is serving some purpose in some small way. If you treat your life as if it were a precious gift that you are expected to appreciate and also behave responsibly with and do what you can to both value it and show your appreciation, you may be a little more content in not quite understanding if there is yet more purpose than that.

I don't think it matters if your fast-tracked or not. Its all about how tuned in you are as a person and maybe about how comfortable you can be with the fairly humble idea that maybe there's no great and amazing purpose to your existence beyond anybody else's; and that maybe you are supposed to appreciate and value that gift of life and the amazing things about the world and the universe deeply enough to perhaps find a deeper purpose of your own.

Note: I have never in my life thought of the phrase, "looking after" when it came to my children. I saw it as "building people" or "enjoying them" or "appreciating them". I saw them as gifts. Now that they're not little any longer, I still appreciate them and enjoy them and look at them and think, "I did a really good job." When I look at those three young people I just kind of think, "If there's no purpose beyond having them in my life I don't care."

Sometimes people spend so much time looking for the big, important, "purpose" or dwelling on the fact that no big, important, "purpose" is obvious; and they miss finding all those small senses of purpose that one can get by doing the small things and seeing life in the simplest of terms.

I think purpose may be like mixing up a bunch of baking ingredients, following the directions, and not quite knowing what kind of baked good you'll come up with when its done. If you add the right ingredients and do things right you'll get a really nice cake. Surprise!! If you don't, you'll get something inedible

Like so many other things in life, purpose comes as the result of a bunch of tiny, seemingly insignificant and sometimes unrewarding steps that all add up to eventually seeing some version of purpose in life. Sometimes, too, a different type of purpose just kind of hits you head some day when you realize this is one of the reasons you're probably here.

If someone can't find purpose it probably isn't his lifestyle. Its probably his thinking that needs change. Sometimes we have to create our own purpose. Sometimes our purpose is thrusted on us. Sometimes we have to be patient in realizing we don't quite feel any sense of purpose; but we may as well enjoy our life and make the most of it anyway.

Answer 9

The purpose of life is to live it.

Knowing is one thing but experiences it for yourself is when you can truly understand and feel for it.

Answer 10

It only has the purpose you give it.