what is the meaning of life?

Question

what makes you happy, what makes you smile.
what makes life worthwhile to you?

i do have a reaosn for askign this.. i swear :P

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

Life to be frank doesnt has any meaning .
Man like all other animal was born just to survive in this world.
But because of his intelligence he started creating things of
different kind like marriage , entertainment ,shopping......
All these happened only because he was born with intelligence
otherwise like all animals he would have been very happy with
just food and shelter .
Today u just think for few minutes does any animal for ex dog
feels bored or suffers or does it has 101 restrictions like we have . It feels and does what it wants to and its love is so pure
not like of human beings .
To really know the meaning of life just for one day forget
about tomorrow , today , yesterday , job, family and everything and think what is that you are here for . The answer is nothing
no specific goal one has . whatever goal u keep is either created by you or by someone .

According to me it is like this .

Answer 3

DON'T think about the meaning of life, don't waste your time. enjoy your life although life is tough, very tough!
I smile for little things.
I smile when I see a cute baby . I smile when I see beautiful flowers, beautiful clouds. I'll be happy if someone (even I don't know them) recovered from illness or injure.When I see someone helping others ,I'll smile.
You don't have to be rich, have husband, wife or kids to be happy. If you think postive, you life will be happier. Good luck.

Answer 4

The ultimate animal purpose of life is reproduction and the species perpetuation. Human knowledge and understanding have added lots of additional purposes: religion, professional development, physical development, culture, hobbies, etc. This because of the fact that nobody really know what they are here besides to try to survive and try to reproduce which is one of the results of having a thinking brain. Try to focus on a human area that you believe it may bring you satisfaction and add it to your life for some extra happiness.

Answer 5

ok.. seriously, my idea is that we are ALL here to do whatever is in our capacity (and i know that capacity can change over time, even vary by the minute!) to do something to change the world for the better. it could be smiling at someone on the bus, putting out a neighbour's bin, doing some volunteer work. for those with bigger capacities (i'm thinking here... Bono, or eddie vedder), it's about using your abilities to change the world. it's also about increasing your capacity... in australia, it was 2 pretty ordinary guys who organised the make poverty history concert end of last year.. amazing.doing whatever we can is our RESPONSIBILITY.

Answer 6

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Answer 8

The easter bunny told me what the meaning of life is. He said the meaning of life is like easter eggs. You have to go out and find what you need and not procrastinate other wise all the things you missed will spoil.

Answer 9

food makes me happy. doing things i like makes me happy. but food most off all because im on a diet and STARVING like marvin at the moment. also cigarettes make me happy coz i am cutting down by more than half. a cheese and tomato sandwich and a cigarette would make me happy at the moment!

Answer 10

the effect we all have in everything we do in eachothers lives

my childrens smiles and hugs watching them play and cooking with them my wonderfu man friend's family him mother and mine my dad the little things in life to me are worthwhile sunday dinner with his mother my man friend's facination with the weather i love watching h is eyes full of excitement and wonder from watching the weather outside holding him at night makinglove to him

Answer 11

now days it seems the meaning of life is money because thats the only thing people seem to want

its so hard to live and be happy without it

its like u have to pay just to live