just wondering does anyone else question life and what it is all about??

Question

I mean do u wonder why do we worry about such everyday boring things and why are we all here and what is the meaning of it all ??Xxdoes anyone know de anwer ??

Answer 1

Welcome to the light (as opposed to the cave). A famous person once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living". Continue to examine your life and you will find an answer that is only applicable to you and you alone. However; much, of the answer will be shared by others and is called a "philosophical belief".

excellent question ....

Answer 2

I dunno. It seems fairly straightforward to me. Life does have an intrinsic meaning, but to get to it we're going to have to progress a little sideways. So bear with me...

Before we can talk about the meaning of life, I think it's productive to first ask the question, "What IS life?". This is a bit easier to answer, if not perfectly clear, because biologists obviously have to be able to explain what, exactly, the bio- part of their name refers to.

Biologists themselves often approach the question backwards. Instead of defining life as a whole, they instead consider the number of things that we generally consider to be 'alive' and figure out what qualities they all seem to have in common. This gives us a handful of properties that all living things we know of seem to have, including growth, reproduction, and the ability to make long-term adaptations to the environment.

Okay. So what does that MEAN? Again I think we need to break down our question with another one: "What IS meaning?" I'll take the same approach as the biologists on this one and consider examples. If a boulder fell on someone's house, and one observer asked another, "What does that mean?", what would acceptable answers be? I can think of a number of them ("It means that was a bad place to build a house"), and what they seem to have in common are that they describe greater implications and intent. Or in other words, given the event, process, or object, what will happen in the future, what led to it in the past, and what effects and intents does it have in the present?

So what does life do? It changes things. We know from the definition of life that it grows, consumes, spreads, alters its environment and alters the ways in which it does all these things. Having living things around means things are going to be different later, and probably were different before. Any time we imagine a place where nothing is ever different the only way that image works is to make it completely devoid of life. So that is something.

But it's not everything. Life doesn't produce just ANY change, but a certain flavour of it. Simply put, living things want to live. The changes living things make, generally speaking, either help them do so or kill them off. So life is not just about change, but change ideally for the better, even if practically it falls short sometimes.

This, then, must be the meaning of life. To change for the better.

Curiously enough, a quick survey of major philosophies, religions, and systems reveals that almost all of them seem to integrate this concept. Change for the better. There may be other important things, as some of the above systems would suggest, but to 'change for the better' is, at least, is the one thing implied by the very nature of the way things are. So do it!

Answer 3

'de answer' or 'the answer', we all understand what you're getting at. I fail to see how anyone can not think about such things from time to time. it's just a matter of degree. you're definately not alone. and even if you one day you are on an issue, keep questioning anyway, you might find de quest is worthwhile.

Answer 4

Everyone else questions life and what it's all about. That is actually what we should be doing. The purpose of life is to find answers, but answers don't just show up unless you are looking. It is a lifelong process. Maybe start by reading some great philosophers like Plato and see what they think. It will give you something to ponder.

Answer 5

You ask "Does anyone know de answer?" I have an answer for you. No offense, but try and sound as though you are not illiterate and use the word "the" as in "Does anyone know the answer?" And no, no one really knows why we are here. The great philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and a great many others down through history) have contemplated your question but really, it's a mystery and always will be. We are here because we are and because Nature put us here. Period.

Answer 6

most everyone asks this question to themselves or someone else at sometime or another... some people dedicate their lives to this question, some people just dont think about it and concentrate on their everyday lives... nobody knows the answer, but there are lots of people who think they do, take a look at any religion and they will try to give you some answers... what you have to do is decide for yourself, find what works for you.. good luck to you

Answer 7

everybody wonders about it.
at some point or another.
others dwell on it for longer, or m ore often.

I don't know why we are here, or what this is about.
when asked why do I live then, and not die or kill myself- I answer:

just as I don't have a reason to live, I don't have a reason to die.

other people around me don't accept death as openly as I sometimes do, I don't really mind the idea of it- so for their sake I don't wander deep into wondering if it woudn't be an intresting journey of death instead of life.

maybe we only live to satisfy those we love?
then why do they live?

I don't know :-P

I like life... you can have fun, even if its hard :)

Answer 8

at least I do too. It is as important to me as to decide to study a B.A. on that subject.

Answer 9

anyone who has stopped wondering is more than likely DEAD