Name one thing life is worth living for?

Question

I know that you love your children and that the biggest part of your life is devoted to them but what are these children raised to live for?

Answer 1

It is natural to have children, instinctive to look after them and raise them properly, but it is only human to be able to see a future in them beyond all the time we have for our own self here. Life to us is a source of endless possibilities; that anything can happen if we are but alive. We live in the anticipations of all the good things happening to us. We hope that one day we will be able to realise something remarkably significant about ourselves, and if we were not able to do this in our lifetime then our children would do this for us some day, if we provide them a good chance. Perhaps for this purpose alone, we seek eternal perpetuation of life at any cost, that means the best possible life here and also the best possible life after death.

We think about life, about its starts and its ultimate temporal end, we glance around and find ourselves amazed at the complexity and versatility in all things, we realise how vast and magnificent a design is this that we are but a small part of. Can we be content with the fact in our knowledge that one day we will leave all this behind and be no more? Far from it, we do not want to leave, and we make sure we don’t. The life tempts us and intrigues us, binding us most strongly to its promises. We live in a state of constant wonder sometimes without even realising this. We know while we are alive there are possibilities; life for us is a unique opportunity that we want to make the best of. I heard the other day Professor Stephen Hawkins beckoning the human race on to spread wide into the galaxy for this will ensure the survival of human race. Why do we care, as in about hundred years time entirely new people will replace all those who are present now, but the fact is that we do care. We simply do not want to be extinguished, because we have life and that means exactly what it is, life, endless and ever evolving.

Answer 2

People don’t necessarily get depressed cos they’re wasting their lives in the sense that they’re not doing anything constructive, but just cos they’re not doing enough of the things they enjoy. If you’re doing stuff you like sometimes it doesn’t matter too much how worthwhile/constructive it is. You just sort of get absorbed in it. Right?

“If nothing matters. Everything is evolving. Then absolutely everything in existence is beautiful. Even murder, Hitler, hoddys, the National Health Service, and blogs..”

I guess if you were going to be a total nihilist then, yeah. But its quite hard to detach yourself from life to that extent. That is the whole ‘existentialist’ philosophy of French writers like Camus and Sartre isn’t it: that every experience is of equal value so you might as well do what you like and nothing matters. Eg. In his famous novel ‘L’etranger’, there is this supposedly symbolic scene where Camus makes his lead character kill an Arab.

The point of the scene is to demonstrate how little everything means to this character: how much of a true nihilist he is.…But the interesting thing is, if nothing matters, and no experience is necessarily any more worthwhile or good than the next, then why did he pick killing to fill this central, symbolic scene? Why didn’t his lead character put some toast on or lie on the floor singing Oh Come All Ye Faithful? Either activity could just as effectively have demonstrated ‘nothing mattering’.

The point I’m getting at is that often when people say “nothing matters” they are often really saying something else. Eg. “I wish nothing mattered”, or “I don’t know how to get what I want”, or “I want to see how unpleasant I can be”.

It is quite a vague idea and is often an emotional shortcut for a lot of other stuff…those are my thoughts on it anyway!

Answer 3

Family

Answer 4

One thing in life worth living for? A magnificent sunset, with the reds, pinks, misty orange, pink-tinged grey clouds reflected in the lake. Wondrous, spectacular and yet so fleeting. In a moment it has changed. The colours morphing into pastels of themselves. The lake rippling and the reflection is stippled. Then another change takes place, more grey replaces some of the bolder more glorious colours and a panoply of G-d-swept colours covers the sky - shades, mists, ripples, upsweeps, downsweeps, cross-sweeps, always in a state of flux, never, ever the same, a glorious always moving panorama of G-d's gift to humanity, seldom even noticed, recognized or appreciated. All this makes life worth living for.

Answer 5

My children are what makes my life worth living because I want to see how they make it in this world and to know if they ever need advice that i will help them.

Answer 6

my 3 children

Answer 7

Sunrise, Sunsets, Bird songs in the spring.

The smiles on the faces of little children.

Kittens playing with a string, and beautiful people just like you.

I love it all.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

Setting goals and having dreams and making them come true. Learning new things. Absorbing and appreciating beauty and nature.
That's more than one, but there's a lot worth living for.

Answer 9

The ability to make a positive difference in someone's life. We all make choices for everything that we do, some of which will make somebody,somewhere happy. That, for me, is the rush i get from living everyday. Being a school teacher, i live everyday in the hope that i will make a difference to help guide the future generation, to make them aware of what they can do, to better themselves and the humanity in their being.
In the process,hopefuly making a difference with mine!

Answer 10

The promise of tomorrows to come that are better than today.

Yech, that sounds like a hallmark card. But I really do mean it. You never know what the future may bring, so why not wait around and see?