Is there something missing from my life? How about you?
2007-08-31 18:45:28 · 23 answers · asked by William 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Don't answer the question directly. I was looking for your thoughts and feelings if you have ever asked this question to yourself. How did you respond?
2007-09-02 01:19:42 · update #1
life is for living
life is to be loved
life is to love
life is to cry
life is to laugh
life is to sing
life is to shout
life is to pain
life is to pleasure
life is to eat
life is to drink
life is to amaze
life is to astound
life is to confuse
life is to try
2007-08-31 18:58:58 · answer #1 · answered by shannonhf05 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Generally what is missing, when someone complains about it, is a grander sense of accomplishment. We have been brain washed to think life is about happiness. If we can't feel happy, we take something to make us feel happy. The emptiness of our existence just makes us unhappier - and the cycle has begun.
What we have forgotten is how to use our mind and body to do something really really well -- better than anyone. That's why we fantasize about being a sports or movie star. Everyone can be a star - they just have to replace having fun with working at it.
2007-08-31 18:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by Tangerine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life, life has many meanings - for men and animal - as we have intelligence, creativity, etc. our life is much complex.
Life does not refer only to have kids, as some say. You get older get a job, get a wife, have kids, grandchildren and die. That is limited thinking! Well after thinking about life (and death) every second of your life you will get to say: Why should I bother? Will the world change into a better place? Will I manage to make myself understood and so changing something? Do they even realise that I am helping them? etc.
Life is for not only for living, if you only think about the problems of your life and you don`t even think at least once about the universal problems; then you do not think at all. As for one who is living his life does not only think`s about his life but thinks about others (universal) as well.
Life is for living in an intellectual way, cause we are intelligent beings.
(Life is for living) and (Life is for not only for living) - hope you understand why I said these both.
2007-08-31 21:26:36 · answer #3 · answered by Jonah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strangely enough, I have always felt like this as though something was missing from my life...... I am now of the opinion that a steady comfortable life does not satisfy us... we look for excitement even if that means struggling with challenges. Looked from that angle, life seems to be defined by being busy fighting uncertainties to create desired certainties and once it is achieved, the desire moves to another uncertainty to be conquered.
2007-08-31 18:57:48 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This life is for doing what you can to be happy. There is nothing missing in your life. If you want something else in it, go and get it.
Just accept that you are here and that's that. No-one put you here, no-one is monitoring you, except those close to you, and no-one cares if you cease to exist. Except those whom you have persuaded to love you.
In a hundred years, there will be no-one who remembers you. So enjoy yourself while you can.
2007-08-31 19:55:23 · answer #5 · answered by Piet Pompies 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can anyone else possibly know if there is anything missing from YOUR life? You have to answer that YOURSELF....
Maybe your life is FOR asking brain ache questions on Yahoo?!
There's lots MISSING from my life....
(is it missing FROM my life, or missing IN my life???)
MISSING "hope" "optimism" "peace" "serenity" and "self acceptance" last seen skipping off up the garden path hand in hand with "self-esteem." If anyone else has found them PLEASE return to me, their rightful owner!
2007-09-01 04:32:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Tu Cara (answer #1). To love God and be loved by God.
Your question itself presupposes a God. You can ask your question of God but not of the mindless process of evolution.
All answers that tell us to invent a purpose for our lives are just ways to try to make us feel good about ourselves. But such things never satisfy because there is no substance behind the feelings.
2007-08-31 22:34:51 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your question is wrong. You assume life is for something and search endlessly. Hence your distress. There is nothing missing. Thinking there is , is the problem.
2007-08-31 19:51:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything.
You either have it and get more or don't have it and get sh*t upon.
That is my experience.
People say that I have a very negative outlook on life when I haven't, they can't see it from where I'M standing because they haven't had to put up with the sh*t I have experienced or they are that myopic that they don't see beyond their own bubble of existence.
2007-08-31 19:46:21 · answer #9 · answered by cheek_of_it_all 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think this life is for carrying out that purpose which God had in mind when he created us. The wisest person concluded in Ecclesiastes that life is meaningless and everything basically comes down to serving God . If there's something missing from your life, try God.
2007-08-31 19:01:40 · answer #10 · answered by Hamma 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Life is for living. If you get unexpected promotion at work you don't keep asking why -you get on with it and enjoy. If you have unexpected good luck you don't question why, you carry on with its benefits. Keep helping others and you will find satisfaction is its own reward. That's what life is for. DB
2007-08-31 19:56:58 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋