What is the meaning to your life, why do we get up and do it everyday, why??

Question

give me some inspiration,hope, purpose, meaning.

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

The great "mystery of the universe" according to the character"Doc Brown" in the movie" Back To The Future",,,,,,,,,,,,,is WOMEN. I am a man. Let me apologize now for my lack of understanding of the female human.The "meaning" of life is a thing most all people think about at one time or another. I do not believe that anyone has really come up with a good answer. There are those that will tell you their religious ideas about how the meaning of life is serving their "god". The christian bible says that the whole duty of man is to worship god. In Ecclesiastes we are told by Solomon ben David that after long consideration this is his conclusion. I will not even attempt to answer that part of your question. Maybe the meaning of life is a different thing for each person. I do not know. As to the "WHY" do we get up and do it every day,,I will address this . Different people are motivated by different things. I think that for a MAN the greatest motivation might be sex. The great masculine prerogative motivates most men. The masculine prerogative is simply defined as the "sex drive" or the "libido". I really do not know what motivates a woman. For the most part they generally seem to want love,safety,financial security,and a home to raise their kids in.I know that I am making gross generalizations. I do not have the time,the space,nor the interest needed to go any deeper into the subject here. You asked for inspiration,hope, purpose, and meaning. I do not think that anyone can "give" you these things. You must cause them to exist inside yourself by an act of you own WILL. However,,,if you really look for these things,,,YOU WILL FIND THEM!!!! They may be illusive but they do exist. This is only my opinion,but, LOVE is a powerful force and a great source of these things that you seek. NEVER give up!!!!

Answer 3

I had an awakening and did not like the situation I was in. I totally changed everything in my life. Now, I am happy with who I am, attracted the man of my dreams into my life and married him, I moved from my home to a new and exciting place, got a new job, and have a new family. I get up every day excited to see what will happen next! Keeping a positive attitude and living in the moment makes life more meaningful..........

Answer 4

You should get up and live because you can. You should be thankful that you woke up this morning. You should wake up and say thank you, and even though life can be rough, it is worth living. Think of all the things that depend on you, if your really into psych's, see the "Butterfly Effect". Think of your family, friends, and all the people that mean to you, and that how you mean to them. Personally, I wake up everyday because I have a good job that I can have "fun" at. Thats my golden moment everyday. You just have to find yours. Everyone has one, they just have to find it, and once they do, they can have the urge, the sheer will to live life to its fullest, and even though that golden moment can change, it will change, there is always one there. Also, im not using religion for this opinion of mine, this is just what I've learned by natural self-exploration and phisosyphical thinking. No drugs either.

The End.

Answer 5

It is important to me to start off being grateful for what I have. It's easy to do, even when you've just woken up and you're still half asleep. I sometimes mumble the things I see and touch and hear as I am waking up, like a room to sleep in, hot water in the shower, little, simple things that 90+% of the people of the rest of the world don't have. By the time I wake up, I'm thinking in terms of gratitude rather than looking for what I don't have.

Try it.

Answer 6

Well I was told that Christians believe the meaning of life is to praise Jesus.
To me, that doesn't give much inspiration.
Maybe take the view that there is no real explanation as to why we are here and we might not be here for long, so get as much out of everyday and be amazed by what you learn and the beauty of the world.

Answer 7

I don't know about you but if I don't get up, I'll wet the bed and where it's a relief at first, it gets cold and icky quick. So, like it or not, I get up. And once I'm up, I can find things to do that make the day slide past and ends with a sense of acheivement. And when I go back to bed, I don't have the cold and wet sheet waiting for me....

Answer 8

I sure hope you don't take that first answer seriously. I've asked myself that question soo often, and the one answer that keeps me going, is simply "to live". Within those two words is the following: contentment, family, friends, God, my dog, my home, my desire to become a better person and, mostly just to enjoy life. The time we have is too short, and you can't make the best of it from your bed. GL

Answer 9

because it's there. you have it, you can do whatever you want with it while the timer is still ticking. i don't know your religion, but think of the light at the end of the tunnel. what awaits you once its over.
i know what you mean completely. a few months ago i couldn't go like 10 minutes of living without asking myself this same question. i had to know why. and now i just think - it doesn't matter yet.

Answer 10

I look At it Positively!
Be Blessed to be Depressed!
Look at Things at the Brighterside!
And Look at The Greener Pasture!
And always pray talk to God! every time you sleep thank Him for Another restfull night!
and In the Morning Pray! thank Him for a new day! and New life he has given you!

And Always smile!

Answer 11

do read read as follows i found your question qite interesting hmm as it is i am only 16 my self and have such a trial befor i should come to truely understand anything but i should say from my perception copy &paste has the best answer for you well not exactly the best but the most detailed i think its most useful as copy&past provided a vast catagory of opinions i sure would like to share discourse with that person i perceive it would be a most wise and yet most foolish mistake i could make...Look around you theres paradox everywhere no theres no good...no evil its just how you percieve it as he/she gave the explanation human consciousness and when you think about it what gives us contiousness but our simple minded brains although i have thought that i was quote awake ive yet to realize any thing reality has made its mold on me now i have to brake free i have to fully realize myself and others i want to be able to take the emotions of others to lift them to crush them to learn them to minipulate them to be used by them yet remain aware i also thought that i was smarter then many people had more reasoning then most people when indeed i am vice fulfiled i guese im gona have to get back to you on this answer no self pity no boasting universal awareness is key once you become aware and you realize that the pendulum swings onward that the hands of time waits for no one not even you that every moment can be and is prescious and yet can be thus your very last death is like a like a long coma in whitch you dont wake up you dont know that your dead you dont know you dont dont you dont nothing theres nothing to any thing no sence of existence all your hard work through life your long journey comes to a solid end a hill a peek it cannot climb...at a certain age in life somepeople exept the fact they are going to die and this can be depressing at the same time this can bring up that most frequently thought question what is the purpose well there trully is one as there is yet infinit purpose must be made but if you trully believe there is a set purpose in life then well you might aswell just believe in a religion thats the only thing that i would say give a set purpose to praise an entity or devine king the same could be called eternal enchainment ..like slaves who feer the consequenses of not pleasing there master fearing banishment misfortune disatster when through greed and ambition they search for pleasure happyness and fortune fortune doesnt have to be money or an other object fortune can be any thing the mind sets it to be but you see we humans we beings we are seekers as our mothers and fathers befor us searched for an answer and theres they came to no sure outcome they failed and so thus these generations being brought forth do the same doomed as it all begain the past is indeed doomed to repeat itself the day is worth dying for and they leed on with the state of mind praise the lord and you will recieve eternal happyness through life and after death.*sigh* i wonder if the way i think alot of teens think the same way..they usualy get so caught up in school and every day presures with life and relations ships and other irrelevent things such as clothes fashion and such if only they would slow down...remmember this you may move at what ever paste you please but dont stope change is enevitable it will happen they will change you people if there were no people on this planet but you you would be like a wild animal knowing no better or worst you would be insane a killing mashine only objectives on getting the next meal surviving staying out of the rain you see it is sosciety that has shaped you it is people and that is the horror that people can take effect on our own our very own indivisual lives what people say what they right it all changes the way we think it all changes our perception all it takes is for a person to come along and suggest a plan an action a statement thats how alliences are made thats how enimies are made thats how followers are created thats when habbit falls in to place*sigh* but enough of my expressions i cannot trust that it may fall on silenced ears....yet in the begining it all seems so endless.......