Why are we given life?

Question

What do people think is the real meaning why we are actually here? Why is it us personally who are living life and not others, for instance people who have died early etc. etc. ????

Answer 1

That's a big question. For me its an even more difficult one to answer since my father died when i was 5, my mother died when I was 19 and I have no brother or sisters. Therefore I am always questioning 'Why me?'. Why am I the one who now has to live on this earth with no family?
However, it is soon obvious why I was given life. I have touched other people's lives. If I wasnt around, two of my best friends would never have met their wives and as a result, 5 children would never have been born. It makes you realise how powerful life is and why we must always be positive and continue to touch the people around us.

Answer 2

Oh boy did you just open a can of worms! Everyone has their own beliefs on the question "Why"? None of the answers (that are honest) should be discounted. Personaly I feel we are all here to learn a lesson and when we have finished that lesson we go home. I feel that Earth is school for our souls. The people who die early may have finished their work here.

These are my personal beliefs and I feel that it is important to state that again because I feel that whatever it is someone believes in they are right. There are very religious people who will say that we are here for god or that this is all evolution and every person should be able to truly believe in their own personal beliefs with out criticizm.

You will need to find your own beliefs. Look into every religion and every idea of evolution and piece togeather something that you can believe in. I feel that all gods are one in the same and are represented differently by different people but the point is the same. I know that I am going to get people who will write after me that I am full of it and that is ok. I would rather be honest than blind.

Answer 3

In the first place, Life is something really beautiful. We can make it so or destroy it. When you ask why, there should be another question, Who gave us life. Well, that's a mystery to many but I believe in God and He put life into each one of us, whether it means a human, an animal, a plant or even the most ugliest and dangerous creature on this planet.
We are given life to fulfill a purpose that knowingly or unknowingly is completed. People as you know will have the worst of imaginations or the best of the imaginations to explain the real meaning of life.
We are living life because we are lucky enough only because we know that if we stop breathing it's our dead end. The dead are dead and will wait for God to reach them and after all they have completed their goal or purpose in life.
When you grow up with a lot of problems and difficulties and after a while you realise that even after all those problems, pot holes and suffering life is worth living, it's the best feeling ever and that'd be the time when you can tell yourself that this is the reason why life is given to each one of us, to cherish each moment, achieve our goals, and adore our creator - God coz He doesn't do things without a reason.

Answer 4

we are given life to answer Yahoo questions! but the real meaning is for us to accomplish something here on Earth...weather it be get married, get a good career, help a less fortunate person, go to another country & see how the other side lives...many reasons my dear, many reasons! I strongly believe that for those who were here & are no longer with us have met all the requirements they needed to fullfil their stay here on Earth...God Bless & keep you Safe!

Answer 5

We are not 'given life' - there is no one to 'give it'! It's just a biological process with no 'point' other than to replicate our genes. That's all we are, DNA factories.
Once we accept that, we can get on with injecting our lives with what ever purpose and objectives we choose. Taking responsibility for, and making the most of our span of existence.

Answer 6

Life is a ongoing cycle, people are born people live and then they die, to make room for the next generation of people. I personally don't feel like people ever really die, your body dies but your spirit and soul continue to live.

Answer 7

A) If God put us on this earth just to worship him, He would've made a giant statue of Himself to make Himself feel important (which he doesn't have to do)
B)There's no way in hell we are just an accident, that's just a bit pessimistic.
C) I believe that God put us here, but why I do not know, nobody truly does. Maybe we were given life, to figure out why we got it.

Answer 8

Why we are given this life? The question implies that you have in your mind someone who gave this life to you, as a gift or may be as a task. If true, then your first quest should be about that being so powerful, generous and kind that we are entrusted upon with this great responsibility living. If on the other hand life is what we asked for, as we are still doing continually with out a break with every breath we take and with every beat of our heart then the quest should be who are you, so ambitious and eager to live.

The question you have denotes a search for the meanings of life and meanings are in purpose as we see in all things around us. The meanings of the life for a honey bee are encoded in the patterns and colours of flowers, in their unique fragrances, and in the times of their blossom; the meanings of life of a star are in its eternal gaze upon heavens, and in its radiant watchfulness; the meanings of life of a river are in its ‘priest like task’ of flowing thousands of mile across land to reach scorched earth, and along the way to home fish and harbour boat upon its surface; the meanings of life of a soldier are in his vigilance as he stands upon the border of his country awake in nights and watching; the meanings of life of man are in his ability to feed his family and protect them form harm; the meanings of life of a women are in the love for her children.

The meanings of life of this entire universe are in its vastness and expanse, in its mystery and intrigue, for it is its purpose to make us wonder forever and think with longing to find, and to yearn for things yet unknown and seek new paths into distances endless in view. For if there were some definite meanings know to a man than that thing would not have lived, would not have searched and found life along the way.

What does it matters then if we cannot put the meanings of life into meagre holds of the words of our language, when all things are endless, in their pursuits and thus in there being. How long a flower lives at all if it does not live forever through all the seasons of spring coming? Can then the autumn take away the meaningfulness of a blossom even when it takes away all its charms? What does it matter if we do what exactly life means when we have life in things of life we love, for this is all that should matter - life is not a question, and it should neither be, life is the answer to all our questions that we might come up with in living.

Answer 9

mama ceet, (i like that name) its a bit of an alien thought but it makes sence, if we are made in gods image and god has a program of how to live life, and his program has a system of reward for efort and great promises for the obediant, and his promise is that all that is his shall be ours (the obediant) now he is a "god" if we get all that he has then surely we are here to become trainee gods, if you observe that mans ways are and have always been godlike, god held councils in the heavens, we hold councils on the earth, we have people that actualy think they are gods, but they are not ready because they are disobediant and have overglorified themselves, we have all the tell tail signs of being capable of reaching those great hights of godship.
but there is a god of evil trying to stop us being obediant.The degree of glory given to man shal match the degree of his efforts
though we cannot reach perfection, doing ones best will get one favoured. and according to god when the time comes he will change us in the twinkling of an eye. and make those deserving ones acceptable in his sight therefore becoming as gods, one may even inherrit an earth to be god over, not impossable, just seems like it because satan is in a hurry to ruin gods plans for us.

Answer 10

Because every little helps . . .

Your question is laced with assumptions: that life is a gift, that it is handed to 'us' (as though we were pre-existent), that 'meaning' stretches to cover something that big, that certain people may have more right to life than others, that dying is a misfortune . . . they are not necessarily all wrong, but they are big assumptions.