do you believe there is a meaning to life?

Question

I am really tired, its 6:24 in the morning, so ill just get it over and done with!
Ok.If you sat down, and really started thinking, what would be your meaning for living? I don't think there is much point in habitually doing the same things all the time, and walking towards a horizon which inevitabily will have an end. I mean I know I sound weird, but to me,standing in the middle of nowhere, and being able to feel the whole earth underneath my feet, (which i have done since i was a child) seeing music in colours, or seeing children happy, or watching the sky, means something to me... I dont have anything else, and even if i did, and I'm not saying I'm misserable, why should I want to be another string of god? another puppet? I don't have any problem with working hard, or being ambitous. thats easy, but living, loving then dying just seems a waste. maybe i should grow up, and stop being so introspective, but the sad thing I find about people is they arent aware of life.
Opinions?

I appreciate peoples opinions; but if you read more closley, I have explained my reasons for being here to some extent... Yes everyone dies, and everyone lives, but listen to yourselves you're all trying to find a meaning for your existance, but it's just the same long line of every other human thats ever lived. working to live, and live to work, trying to find 'ulitimate' happiness, which is inconsistant. Im not empty, I can just see what everyone else is doing. Everyone seems to except their place in the world without questioning it; no amount of years or wisdom can opose our predetermined fate of being a genetic android, which follows a set of codes and rules to surivive. Ok its a nescessity, and i could whine forever till i die, but im living.... just not alive

Answer 1

the meaning of life is death.

Answer 2

Well that is surely a sad outlook on life. Take a look at what does make you happy so long as you will look at the whole picture to realize your fate. Guess what, we all have the same fate, which is death. Get over it and start living you life. Most people who have your type of outlook on life are quick to danger and adventurous activities for the excitement knowing that they will end up cremated or in some cemetery forever. The others like you would rather dwell on the fact that you are going to die and life is meaningless? Why? Do something fun and when you find the most fun thing you can, would your life to continually replenishing that fun. Whether if be God, family, food, skydiving, music, movies etc... I know there must be something in your life that you have fun at doing or you would have been gone a long time ago. Enjoy life, and make the most of the time you have.

Answer 3

I believe in being of service to your community. Working towards change. Change that will affect your children and generations to come. I know that the work I do effects people in ripples, like I may start the ripples or I just may be part of someone elses ripple, but the point is that each thing keeps it going so it becomes something much bigger. One person can make a difference, just look at history. I feel pride in myself and on those depressing days I still know that I am doing good for myself and for others. Maybe if you get involved in something like that your life will have more meaning or you feel it does anyways.

Answer 4

I don't really know for sure, but I'll venture a guess. I DO know that the meaning of why I'm here..why any of us is here gets more difficult to discern, the older I get. But ironically, what I need to do WHILE walking on this Big Blue Marble and how to do it, becomes increasingly easier to understand. It's the Divine Comedy...the Insatiable Irony...the Incomprehensible Understanding. In other words, life is just this short of full on Jabberwocky.

I think each of our lives is like renting an apartment or staying a couple of days at a hotel. There are amenties there...free for you to use. You're also free to bring in your own things to make it more homey, more comfortable while you're there. But when it's said and done and you're time to move on, you're to leave it as you found it. Or close to it anyway, so others can enjoy the same stint in the your old quarters.

No matter what though, you still leave your mark when you leave...even if it's that vile hot pink crap you painted on the bathroom--YOU left YOUR mark. It might get painted over again, but the process continues.

Life is meant to be lived. You have to decide how to live it. Sometimes you pay for a room at the Ritz...sometimes, you're relegated to a room at a flea bag motel. But staying in one makes you appreciate the other. I think that's a fairly representative of the good and bad in life..the proverbial ying and yang.

Like you, I've stayed up at night, pondering the damndest things, such as as that age old question--why bad things happen to good people. I could never understand why a merciful, loving God (the same one that the Nuns taught me about) could allow something as horrific as 9/11 to happen. I still can't wrap my head around the ecumentical reasons for that.

Anwyay, sometimes I think there is no explanation. I might "need" to believe there are no explanation.

You've seen the bumper sticker...the one that reads "Sh** Happens", right? Well, sometimes, I truly think it just does. No rhyme, no reason...no explanation from Deepak or Marianne Williamson or Madame Babushka Stien in her "Psychic Shack" out by the airport. No one knows for sure, but a lot of people have made small fortunes convincing people they do.

Who knows? Maybe I'll write about it myself someday. Sure would be nice to stay in the Ritz for a couple of days.

And don't worry...I'll leave it just as I found it---save for my initials scribbled under the sink.

Look for "LK".

Answer 5

I know you are wondering if the life you live here would be the same in the next life. Well my friend if I could say. People will know what the meaning of life is when its there turn. And yes I believe in the meaning of life. So do you!!!. If I'm here your here and everyone else also. Seeing is believing, hearing is be living,feeling is believing. Take care and trust me you'll be back in another life in time.

Answer 6

You say this like we have a choice. We are here. Period. We will die. Period.

For Christians, we believe that God requests you follow him, whether you believe in him/like him or not. It's not a choice. Defying his wants will not change the outcome of your fate, even if it does make you feel good in the meantime.

Usually the people that ask these questions feel empty inside.

Enjoy each and every day you have here, and help others to feel included in your world as well. Don't ponder life, MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Answer 7

Have you ever asked what, how and why sentience is? We sort of know on a shallow level WHAT it is, but the HOW and WHY - if you could answer those questions, it might give you the answer or answers to your question!

Remember - Einstein said ''the most incomprehensible thing about the Universe, is that it's comprehensible" !!

Or if you like, to put it another way - the reason we're here, is to make more of us -WHY, beyond reproduction and continuation of the species is maybe where the question of sentience comes in - ok ?

Answer 8

You may not believe this but what has kept me going all these years is poem by Rudyard Kipling. It is said that when Kipling was composing this poem he was thinking of what God the Father might have said to Jesus before sending him to us. Here it is.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 9

Life has the meaning that you give to it.

Now more personally:

I think that the only point in my life is to help others who arent happy. Life is short, and everyone deserves to be loved and be happy. So anything I can do for anyone that can make that happen, I will. Or even just helping others by answering their questions on Yahoo Answers. Whatever works.

Answer 10

If you truly want to know the meaning of life ask for the missionary's of the LDS church to come and teach you. It will change your out look on life so much. You will then understand why you have all of those feelings. Nope you wouldn't have to join if you don't truly believe what they say. but even if you don't believe all they say I think it will still give you a fresh look at the world.

Answer 11

Life is what you make of it. Some people enjoy doing the same thing day after day, that is how they see a fulfilling life. Others, like yourself don't like the same thing all the time. It's all objective.