whats the point in life?

Question

i just dont get it..we work and love..then just die..just die and its all over..and ur gone forever...i just dont get it..i never wanna die im 18 and im starting to know now that we really die..i guess when ur a kid u just think u live forever..man i hate this feeling..all i think about is death..like every min of the day..it makes me feel ike shouldnt even do anything whats the point..ill just be dead

Answer 1

You have to define the meaning life holds for you and give it meaning accordingly. You can aspire to marry raise kids and make them smarter, healthier, better adjusted or simply have more fun than you did as a kid.

You can aspire to be rich, work hard and then ponder how you can make life better and more fun for yourself and other through philanthropy, hedonism, generosity to friends, family and others or a combination of each.

You can choose a noble pursuit and dedicate your life to it such as teaching, social work, theology or science and take pleasure and joy in the note that you are benefiting others and the world thhrough your selfless devotion to service.

You give life meaning through the choices you make and in how you choose to live it.

Just remember that when you are old and on your deathbed you'll think what did I do with my life? Was it time well spent? Did I make a difference? Was I respected, loved or loathed for what chose to do in life?

Answer 2

Yes, we die but that's no reason why we shouldn't do the best we can when we are alive. e.g. would you rather be remembered by yr kids for achieving something great of just being the nicest person they know or would you rather they were ashamed of you for being a c**p father? (this is only one example) Yes at the end of things we die but your 18 - your a long way off that. Also think about the things that you like or enjoy - would you like to continue doing them or just give up all hope - end up homeless on the streets somewhere?

Just do the best you can in life. - a guy once said "i will only be passing this way once" - so why not do the very best you can?

Answer 3

To be absolutely honest, I believe that the "point" to life, is to die.
Death is the main reason for life. If you don't live once, you do not die, if you do not die, then you were never living. Ancient egyptians used to believe that your death was the most important celebration of (ironically) your life.
But that is an old belief. In this generation, it is best to believe that life is all about the experiences you have, and the people you encounter during your lifetime.
Enjoy it to the best!!
And you only live once, so everything is worth trying :)

Answer 4

You have a chemical imbalance. Thinking about death constantly shows that you need help balancing your brain chemicals that control the will to live. You're extremely depressed.

NAMI - National Alliance for Mental Illness has lots of info about your condition, and can find a dr. for you and/or a therapist. www.nami.org.

You also need to figure out why you're here and what you're supposed to do with your life. Sign up at biblesforamerica.org and they will send you free information about what I believe is the purpose of life.

Don't do anything drastic until you get help, okay? There is more to life than you can see just now, so wait a few years until you've had a chance to explore life before you write it off.

Debbie Villareal
e-mail me if you need help

Answer 5

I can sympathize with your plight, but you don't have to feel this way.
Life is not pointless. Many people believe it is, and they like to call themselves atheists. Others believe that the world exist for a reason, and many of those people in turn believe in a supreme being, which most of the human population refers to as "God."

Don't try to figure out your life's purpose today. You have time! :) You were given a gracious amount of time to develop both physically and mentally, and to figure yourself and the world out.
Every day you learn a little more. You are not expected to know everything today, if you did, what would be the point of living for tomorrow??

Even Newton and Einstein took decades coming up with what now has entered into mainstream knowledge.

If you don't feel like you believe in God, that's okay, but don't rule it out completely. Many times things happen in people's lives that make them see everything, and i mean EVERYTHING in a different light, which in turn makes them turn to God and suddenly they see it all makes sense.. that's the way it was with me.

God is love. He loves all of us, and I hope he will help you in your quest to make sense of everything. I'm eighteen too, and I talk with a lot of my friends about death and stuff like that because sooner or later we all die. It's not the fact that we die though, that's important, but how we look at it. We don't have to be scared. We are worth so much to God and it is so difficult for us to comprehend at times! So many times life's daily struggles and miseries blind us from the goodness and the truth.
Take small steps, otherwise trying to comprehend everything at once is just plain overwhelming..
If you have any more questions, feel free to email me :)
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P.S. I highly recommend the book "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis (The same guy who wrote the chronicles of narnia) He argues for God and how the world without him just wouldn't make sense.. i read it and i was shocked, inspired, fascinated and motivated to tell other people about it because it changed my life so much..

Answer 6

i know how you feel. ive been feeling this way the majority of my significant life. the point in life is that you get to have a taste of what you might have never. that its better to have one touch, one kiss, one smell than never knowing what its like. its about asking these sort of questions and living a life of mystery and moratality and facing the fact that you can be gone in any instant and that every second of your life should be lived as if it were the last because it is infact your last. there is more in life than what people think they know.. living is worth finding out.. worth discovering what the untold, the unknown is.

Answer 7

Yeah, we're all going to die someday, so what's the problem? Go out and have as much fun as you can for, oh, i dont know, maybe the next 60 years? Relax....

To answer the initial question though, the point of life is to help others, to love, and to learn, not necesarilly in that order.

Answer 8

You'll be alright, I am twenty and I am going through a very tough time since my girlfriend of four years broke up with me before she went to college. I have asked my self whats that point in even trying all summer. Just keep on keepin' on and you'll soon discover what your here for.

Answer 9

Yes, but there's so much time between now and the end--you need to fill that time with things that are wonderful and exchillerating and make you feel like your time here on earth made a difference to those you come into contact with.

Answer 10

I think there is a point in life where we suddenly understand that we are going to die. I remember a story of a young girl who with her parents was looking at thousands of photographs of soldiers taken during the US civil war. She remarked that those soldiers must be very old by now. Her parents told her softly that every single one of those soldiers was dead. She was astounded and didn't say another word for the rest of the day.

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” –Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was an atheist but was honest enough to understand that purpose can only come from God. Without purpose, life can have no point and no meaning.

The idea of a pointless existence ought to drive us to God but for those who reject God, it drives them to invent "purposes" and pretend that they are real. But those invented "purposes" are really necessary to keep sane.

But if we admit that God might exist, then we can see that God must have put our need for purpose into our human nature in order to point us to seek Him. So I think our purpose is to seek God and to come to know God. Christians think that we do that by obeying God's command to love our neighbors for where love is, there God is also.