What do you think is the point of your own existence?

Question

Why do you think you were created?

Answer 1

Good , very good question.
The answer is..... I don't know.... maybe we were just the lucky ones to get the only oportunity and chance to live this life on Planet Earth.... to see how it is ........ I wouldn't know... or may be we have a mission but we just don't get it!

Answer 2

The matter of my existence has gone beyond the matter of my thinking, and as a matter of fact it has always been beyond my thinking. My existence is my beginning, the entirety of which I cannot ascertain or contain within my thoughts. I cannot sit down on day an paint the existence as if I were an objective spectator of my life. I am involved, implicated, embroiled, embedded, entangled interested, engaged, immersed and emancipated all in one life that I am. For an inquisitive mind, however, the point of my existence is that I am existence, that I am no less an existence than a star, a galaxy or any other fellow human beings, I am equally reliable an evidence in existence of the divine truth as the words of the wisest and prophecies of the foreseeing.

To be what am is what I can be, and this is the purpose of my life, where what I think and what I know is a bonus. The deepest questions do not emerge to conscious awareness without their answers already present in the mind. It is just that we, due to our own limitative displacement from the origin, do not like to see reality directly in form of ultimate answers, but in obliquely as questions, questions that keep us going, interacting and learning all things all over again, and then again, in an endless search. The point of life, therefore, is to except even this, and comply to the quests of the soul, the mind and also to the demand of our body. This is, to search well through anguishes of doubt with all the faith, faith.

Answer 3

We were created to serve our creator. This life is a test, the results of which will determine what our fate will be after death. How long is this life? a mere 60-70 years. 100 if you're lucky. How long is death? Forever! What do you think will happen once you are dead? Who knows? One thing is for sure...you only get one chance at this life. Death is a definite for all of us. Whether we are rich or poor, healthy or unwell. Just a matter of when really.

Going on that premise, what is the point of our own existence? The point of our existence is to make the most of the life that we have, and prepare for that long journey that is ahead of us- after death. If there is no long journey, then what have we lost by leading a good and virtuous life?

By good and virtious I mean, follow the 10 Commandments. Stay away from sins i.e. envy, adultary, gluttony, etc. If you can't follow all of them then try your best to. Look after thy neighbour as well as your brother. Look after the elderly, as they are who we will become, if we're lucky! We all know what is good...just try your best to lead a good life.

Answer 4

I wasn't 'created' for any special purpose. Obviously my parents wanted a child, so they had sex. I don't think it is useful to read into things too much and formulate some 'point of existence'.

I think it's important to live life knowing that we can: (1) grow as individuals, (2) function as humans [as opposed to other species], and (3) continually change for the better until death. That is of course what having life means.

Answer 5

To keep the species going, but there are plenty of us already now so our only natural point to our existence is a little defunct now.

What we do besides this, and how we go about living is all pretty much up to us.

Personally I try not to upset anyone elses lives too much and live the easy life whenever I can

In terms of goals, just a life without personal struggle will do me fine.

Answer 6

To make those around me just a little bit happier, if even for a moment.

That is a major point that I attribute to my own existence.

However in referring to why did something/ some being create me? Only feasible answer that I can relate to... is inter-galatic Science Experiment... :o))

Answer 7

Something only has a point if it was designed for a purpose. The question in this case is designed by whom? I think biologically speaking I was just a happy accident for my parents, so that only leaves God who might have had a purpose for me. Falling that I have to find a point for myself as none of those possibly responsible for me have left any clues.

Answer 8

We are here for no reason at all just like animals live and die. We are no different to germs breeding and multiplying. Where there is life we will feed from it till it disappears like a parasite. It's a pretty depressing picture but I'm not really that religious so I take a more scientific approach.

Answer 9

Until I reached my mid twenties I didn't have a clue; and that same question was present in my life like a ghost, and not knowing the answer made me sad, angry and confused...And then, one day I realized I was really happy with my life and who I was. At that moment all my anxieties cleared (I still have them from time to time, but that moment remains in my memory like an epiphany : I was happy and was to share my happines)
I have tried since then to do so, sometimes I forget, but still, try.

Answer 10

To go down in history as a great sporting legend and inspire kids all around the globe that nothing is impossible for many years to come and be remembered forever.

Answer 11

I agree with KGB: "Something only has a point if it was designed for a purpose." This requires a Creator who created us for a mission. Without God, there can be no purpose:

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

If we accept the idea of God, then we can ask why He would have put that great need for purpose into our human nature. The only answer, I think, is that He intended it to point us to seek Him.