Does your life have a purpose?

Answer 1

I think it does but I've temporarily lost touch with it. I seem to be going through a phase of just surviving one day at a time. My job is somewhat stressful, I'm not happy with my health, and I generally feel lonely. I seem to be stuck...and I don't know how to change things.

Answer 2

You are really asking whether God exists.

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell (20th century philosopher, mathematician and Nobel Laureate)

If you are looking for real purpose, you have to seek God. Many people are satisfied with just some feeling of purpose. There is no accounting for feelings. I may get such a feeling from helping others while someone else may get the feeling from gaining power over others. If there is no God, there is no reality behind the feelings.

But if we think that God might exist (and even if we are not sure whether He exists), then it makes sense to seek God. This is because, if God exists, it is likely that He put this need for purpose into our human nature in order to point us to seek Him. So my purpose is to seek my Creator; to know Him and to have a fellowship with Him.

Answer 3

At the moment 'life' does not have a purpose - though I'm looking for one - I'm just outa whack! Tired mentally, physically and gutted by my surroundings and the apparent changes that are happening - I am stuck in the 15th century though with a pc to give answers of what's up. Where or when its ends I don't know - am not really bothered I am that tired.

Answer 4

i was just starting to read a book by colin wilson before coming on here and he was quoting and talking about a guy called Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff had developed a system for personal development based, in part, on the following.

we do not have a single self but rather many selves - like the self in me that's thinking about what i want to write and the self that's robotically finding these keys to write without interrupting my train of thought. these 'selves' are clearly on different levels and you can easily find other examples...the self in you that will call in sick from work to eat chocolate in bed, versus the self that will do anything you can for a friend in need, for example.

Gurdjieff taught that these selves were in a hierarchy and that there were higher selves that we had not 'been' yet - that lay dormant in us - but that we could reach up and unify more and more of the lower selves like rungs on a ladder we had climbed.

the purpose of climbing? spiritual enlightenment, becoming one with the underlying force behind everything...lofty stuff!

i think he's right, though. the purpose of life is to know more and more of our potential and reach as high as is possible, building on our successes and learning how to climb better and farther from our mistakes. it seems to me that whatever your spiritual beliefs are, this becoming more and more truly ourselves tends to lead us into doing more and more good in the world....it's hard to be greedy(though i still manage quite well it seems!) when you realise that loving and being loved is more important than building a fortress of cash against a world seen through paranoid eyes. it's hard to be dismissive of another's pain when you have felt what it's like to truly value, and lose, and grieve the loss of one you have loved more than anyone else in the world. it's hard to blow other people up when you realise the incredibly delicate yet powerful beauty you have inside yourself.

so - call me an old hippy but i think i will try to climb a lil higher still. it's MY purpose here. and i think it's a sort of purpose that will do more good than harm even if i'm completely mistaken about all of it. =P

Answer 5

Not at the moment. I just feel like I am surviving each day and not living right now. My purpose got broke into pieces when my partner passed away and I have not found a way of putting it back together yet.


:-)))

Answer 6

Yes, my worldview includes a God who created me and has a purpose for my life. That purpose is to love God and enjoy Him forever. He takes care of whatever I need, and in turn I am called to love Him and others. He directs my path.

Answer 7

I don't believe in a purpose, per se.

I have things which give my life meaning, but it doesn't make sense to me to suggest that people exist to fulfil some kind of function. I'm not a religious person anyhow, so I don't believe that God pre-ordains things.

Answer 8

Even if your life is not how you want it to be,there is purpose,we must find it

Answer 9

i think my purpose in life is to teach children how to be good people.i seem to have this thing kids are just run to i'm very good with them find it easy and have 3 of my own and am a childminder.strange as i never seen this as something i wanted to do.i just can.

Answer 10

Everything and everyone has a purpose,its finding it thats the hard part.