What is the meaning of life really?

Answer 1

The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.

These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.
Popular beliefs
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question. The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:

Survival and temporal success
...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
...to be always satisfied
...to live, go to school, work, and die
...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to eat
...to prepare for death
...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means
...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
...to seek and find beauty
...to kill or be killed
...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.

Wisdom and knowledge
...to master and know everything
...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions
...to expand one's perception of the world
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
...to lead the world towards a desired situation
...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life

Ethical
...to express compassion
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to give and receive love
...to work for justice and freedom
...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to serve others, or do good deeds

Religious and spiritual
...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become like God, or divine
...to glorify God
...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to discover who you are
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced

Philosophical
...to give life meaning
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to know the meaning of life
...to achieve self-actualisation
...all possible meanings have some validity
...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
...to die
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever
...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )
...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"

Other
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
...to make conformists' lives miserable
...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)

Answer 2

In Reality, Life has profound meaning! But we do not live most of life in Reality, or, in Consciousness! We are not 'aware' all the time: some genuine efforts to seek the meaning will certainly be rewarded -- seek through life lived normally, or, through the teachings and lessons from a 'guru': or, through meditations and yoga: or, through prayers -- or again, through a mix of all these: live normal life, go to a 'guru' for some part time lessons, do yoga, prayers and meditation, all in normal life, as part of your life!

Answer 3

Probably different for everyone. For some, it's just to survive...for others, to leave a legacy, make a great contribution to humanity, etc. I think it really boils down to being happy and enjoying theride despite all the adversities, which for some people is the hardest thing to do.

Answer 4

i think that this life is in an imperfect place where humans have control to choose their own path and destiny.there are natural rules and principles which are always working and so every action has a reaction.we have to do our best to make this world and our life purposeful and peaceful in order to live a happy eternal life after death.Because logically i think justice will be done for all our actions.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Birth, Growth, Sexual Energy, Reproduction, Expansion, Experience, Death, Contraction, Acceptance, Peace....Rebirth....Birth, Growth...etc etc.

Answer 7

In Shakesphere's words, 'it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing'.
But in my view it is a great epic full of love and hatred

Answer 8

Simply said it's to be reborn. Come as a you come to meet every day.child lay your burden down and take up the cross,spiritually speaking that is as simple as refusing your own self interests to help those that

Answer 9

take a deep breath and try to imagine what happens in your lungs and whole body when blood carries the air to your cells. Its a magic... that is what run you.

Answer 10

To go with the flow sometimes and against the flow other times, to satisfy your needs and desires.

Answer 11

life is given to us to do what we have to do. discard the ego and u will know what we have to do. keep on doing it and in the way u will b given some enjoyment and sufferings (dont ask for it, it will b given to u) lap it all up. u will know what ur destiny is. just follow ur inner voice.