what if you never know what you want. you work hard eventualy its nothing, you will die. when we die will we be happy, will I get the thing that I want, the thing that I dont know about.
2007-02-08 01:13:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are things that I want but nothing is enough. I dont know, I just want something, but what is it. What is my destiny, a Hero, a lover.?Something that will make me, ME. I dont care if I want something about happiness or love. All I want is that something , my destiny. I dont know, what is wrong with me. If I die will I finally find that something, the adventures.
2007-02-08 03:03:21 · update #1
Heck no. There isn't anything out there. Just try to find the questions to all the answers that haven't been asked yet. Give and Begot, Love and Die Twice... all is well.
2007-02-08 01:17:34 · answer #1 · answered by PrettyEskimo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF... between now and your death you find out what "that" is:
You can either try to acheive it for the remainder of your days. Or find that it is too late and die with regret or accept that you couldn't have learned it earlier.
IF you don't:
You can still live a meaningful life; taking small measures in doing things that you will like to look back on before your death.
Either way, you will have lived a complete life. It doesn't get any better than this.
2007-02-08 11:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by DeanPonders 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a good mind. A questioning mind is the make of philosophy and only the search for answers confirm that we are not as certain as science and humanism will have us pretend that we are. All those who claim there is nothing out there are not as sure. You are at least honest to state that you dont know and are not dragging people along with your proud ignorance--which canot be said for many people. Keep asking questions about life, never wrongly assume absolute knowledge. You may not be getting certain answers, but in doing so, the uncertainties of life gets meaning and order and our course through it is less fundamentalist and more understanding of other equally ignorant, even if pretentious people as we are. Our search for meaning is the essence of life, we discover many truths but never all. I discovered one central truth. That God is. and that is not all. It is the begining of a lifelong search and living.
2007-02-13 22:42:12 · answer #3 · answered by Elder 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are living the biggest adventure right now -- LIFE! That is why there are ups/downs/curves and stops all around you. You may not understand your plan for now (after death what you wanted to know will come to the fore)...I think you are looking for your purpose in life...maybe looking too hard. It is all around you. Help and elderly person get their mail, walk safely across the street...smile at your neighbors. Go to a nursing home and try reading to an elderly patient.....volunteer at a Humane Animal Shelter. Your great adventure is with in yourself.......Good Luck
2007-02-15 10:32:52 · answer #4 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the "meaning of life", and the purpose of life, is to live it. that's all there is to it. try to be happy more than you are unhappy and you will have made a success of your life. regardless of what you may want or not want, you aren't guaranteed to get it, so it doesn't matter if you have certain things you are after or not. when you die, you'll be neither happy nor sad--you'll just be dead. stop over-thinking life and live it.
and can i say that i feel really sorry for the guy who thinks the point of life is to come up with things you want, but don't have, and then bust your hump to get them, only to turn around and come up with more things you don't have, just to start all over again? how frustrating and sad. he must be a very unhappy camper.
2007-02-08 09:27:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot spend your time worrying about that which you do not know.
Find what is important to you and strive to live your life for that thing or things.
If you aren't sure what you want, don't worry. You can never be sure because doubts can come from every direction. Take what you have experienced and apply that for now. If you learn something that changes your mind, it's ok.
Generally, if you live your life to serve and benefit others, your life will have meaning far beyond your measily understanding.
Peace.
2007-02-08 09:25:54 · answer #6 · answered by Kahlo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For most people, the list of what they want is a big one, and seems to grow in size and number with age !
And yet, when the end nears, they realise that all this was not what they wanted, and it is too late to pursue what they wanted.
The only way to solve this is to relax the hold on 'want' list occasionally, and very consciously.... Introspection would happen by itself, and when the wrong items disappear, the right ones would surface. We know what we want, but right now it is buried deep under the latest 'want' list !
2007-02-08 09:48:31 · answer #7 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life isn't always a bowl of jelly beans and there certainly are a lot of things that we can't control in it. We have to take things as they come most of the time, we can have dreams, we can not be aware of how things will turn out is the thing of it. So the meaning is the mystery is life.
2007-02-08 09:42:34 · answer #8 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make up your mind! When you die... you don't need anything so eventually you wont get what you want even if you die. You have to miss some thing to want it! If you're not missing anything you don't want anything ... get it! find what you're missing and you'll find what you want! remember, you can spend a life time searching for that!
2007-02-08 09:42:48 · answer #9 · answered by Da_wa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
2007-02-16 06:55:38 · answer #10 · answered by varaprasad143 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋