Seriously what is the point of life

Don't take it too serious nor too personal. Find your purpose Make meaningful connections. Posted February Somehow, even as a kid, I would answer that the point of life is "simply" living it.

However, I struggle with filling the simplicity of this knowledge with purpose. Everything we do is so irrelevant and yet so important at the same time. The little things we do have such a massive effect on life on earth like booking a flight or replacing something that is working well with something a bit more trendy or in a nicer pattern we seem to take on so lightheartedly.

Maybe being fully alive also means being fully aware of the consequences of our actions ranging from snappy remarks to encouragement and daily consumption. I honestly haven't pondered too much about what's the point of life. I agree with Dee and the importance of being present, finding joy in what you have in your life, and try and always do your best in everything you do.

Living life to the fullest - whatever that means for someone or at a certain point in their life - and try and be a kind person to the people around you. Posted October 12, Some great pointers on the point of life from Dee. I used to spend hours thinking about my purpose here on Earth but have come to realize that it's actually all very simple.

We'll never really be able to answer the riddles of why we're here on this planet, so, what's the point of life? I think just to enjoy it!

Connect with others and help them. Be nice. Be kind. Spread joy and happiness to people and make their journey here easier too. Learn and share your knowledge. If you can find a career you love all the better, but that's not the be all and end all of everything. Just experience and enjoy. I love that saying, 'live, love, laugh'. That sums up the point of life for me! Finding happiness isn't always as simple as opening a box labeled joy. Some people find it in the most unexpected places, like BDSM submission.

Where does happiness come from? James Holloway suggests that ancient philosophers such as Epicurus, Plato and Herodotus may hold some of the. While many in today's society strive for wealth, the pursuit of money and status appears to actively damage well-being. Conversely, non-materialistic. Interested in positive psychology and increasing your own happiness? Then the Science of Happiness course could be right for you.

Tine Steiss tried. By seol , January 26 in It's all about happiness. Here are 3 questions you need to ask yourself. More sharing options Most of us have probably asked ourselves 'what's the point of life'? Indeed, sometimes our time on Earth can seem futile. However, Dee Marques argues that finding meaning in your existence is key and tells you the three vital questions you should ask yourself to help find it.

Both meaning and purpose But for the journey to be meaningful, it must be the result of your own choices. The 3 questions to help you find meaning The quest for meaning in life is so vast that the very thought of getting started can make you feel overwhelmed.

What would you like to be remembered for? If you had super-powers, which problem would you solve first? What a bizarre thought? So, is there a Point to life…. Bateria is in the air so the conditions needs to be right. Life happens and we are still none the wiser as to what the point of life really is, if at all? Beyond that, we know nothing. Thanks Chris. I am 50 years old. I have been saying that for many years. I believe we are just organisms on a host…like fleas on a dog. It is very possible that we are a tiny insignificant part of something far greater that is beyond comprehension.

But this is what we have, what we know, so we might as well make the best of it. If we strip away all the layers of complexity like religion, science, opinions, beliefs, philosophy, etc. If truly there were no real purpose in life, we would be nothing more than a rock only existing through mere existence and nothing more. Strange though it may be or perhaps not, conscious life happens…almost out of nowhere. There may never be a true answer for us…until later.

He leaps of the Platform only to plummet to certain death. After just 67 more years, we have evolved to the point of putting a Man on the Moon. All Souls who ever existed will be in a parallel dimension where all things that ever were and places that existed, are still there, somehow. Everything thing we see and do, is recorded in our memory for all time, so perhaps there IS a reason.

As I mentioned while back we cannot be certain why, and probably never will be. There will never ever be a reason that tells us why we are here because it must remains a mystery for all time. There is no credible answer unless one happens to be an Atheist. Dreams, though muddled, may not JUST be dreams! Absolutely Chris. I thought that of dreams at a very young age. Destiny, in my own definition, is 2 paths set for you to take.

Also, another possibility is that the point of life is set in your own role, mentioned under the actual website explanation. THAT is the point of life in my oponion. The interactions, the impact, and the continuation you note is the point. I found this post quite interesting.

It brought to light blah blah blah. I really enjoyed this post, because it made me think. The only thing that keeps me from exploring those thoughts with actions, is my addiction to entertainment. Video games and youtube videos have become what anchors me down, and give me purpose in life. I know I said the boring philosophical stuff was over, but I kind of needed to use a bit of the boring stuff to stick the rest of it in a softer, more yellow light.

And just to clarify, no. Thanks for reading if you did. But death is part of life, like night is part of day — it is essentially part of the same cycle. As you allude to, being comfortable with death, with the fact that you will die, brings with it a liberation in the now.

Once we accept that we were born to die, that every moment is a step closer to that part of life, a weight is lifted off our shoulders; there is freedom in that acceptance and subsequent happiness.

Absolutely Jaz. Thanks for your comments. That feeling is one I believe you can only get from watching someone play a game or enjoy something and you can join the experience, or playing a game with strangers who have no connection to your life, so the things you truly beleive cannot be brought back to your life in the real world.

Sure, there are videos and games that make you get pleasure from others suffering, but unless you say something you meant to not be a joke, or said it as a joke and didnt tell the person that, then it is fine since you most likely will never meet the person, and the easiest way to make someone put their fist through a tv, is to comment spitefully on their failure. That is my opinion on the subject and it is a little draining, but I decided to get everything I believe on the subject out in the open, so I can ge back to studying for midterms and not contemplating suicide.

Sorry for writing problems. School sucked for me too. I never felt like I belonged there and I was surviving rather than learning and thriving. But I realised later in life that the experience equipped me well to deal with difficult people and situations in life.

My schooling was an education in life, and I ended up educating myself in things I was interested in when I left. You are a critical thinker and this will enable you to do great things such as helping others find their way through difficult times and helping the world become a more compassionate, fair place.

The point of life can seem bleak at times, but know this: You are unique. There will never be another you. None of us know, but we do know that if there is such a thing as a miracle then that is it. Keep being you. Be positive. Today is the point. Now is the point. You have the power to change this moment for the better. Do it. I like this. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read this and for giving me new perspective on thoughts of death and life and how curiosity and a sense of contentment ties it all together.

I found this post really interesting because there is a powerful transformation in every now moment. Desires are great and they make us have the will to continue living and doing whatever we do so that when they are achieved,one can now feel what they knew that achievement would bring.

However before the desires are manifested they are first previewed in our imaginations of a now moment in a particular time. Then from that now moment one either proceeds with the feeling of either getting closer to their dreams or their dreams getting away from them or even living their dreams even at that particular moment and appreciating that they are at a perfect position in alignment with future desires,thus feeling that they are totally living their own perfect happy life that is missing nothing but connected to everything that they could ever want provided they have the chance to get it.

That chance is being at this now moment. The moments after now will always be from now and it is even funny that they will be felt and experienced only by other now moment of that time when they will be achieved.

The now moment is what is the I know moment because it is the it is regardless of the way it was or the way it will be. Just feel it! That is really well put. Correct me if I am wrong, but you seemto not to be able to Be Impersonal Love. Its perfectly ok, to play with mental concepts, but to be able to Witness, in my exoerience required many many years of Loviness, as a state of consciousness.

You are a Perfection Reflection of a state of Consciousness and could not be anyother than what you are.. Blessings Ed. Have a great day. I think that this phrase meaning of life implies looking to life from outside.

This is a very philosophical article, because you can endlessly hold a discussion on this topic and not come to a single decision. Thanks for the thoughts. When studying the impermanent and interdependent nature of nature, it would make sense that the cycle continues but simply in a different form. Hey, which part in particular do you think is clouding the essence of what I am saying? But fundamentally, I always come back to the same point, which is the essence of my post.

I agree, we are brainwashed by expectations, and one of the main points of my blog is to get people to stop living on autopilot for a moment and start thinking about their happiness and how it relates to those expectations that they are living under.

Culture is a powerful influence and we tend to just follow along. We are educated into our certain culture, and we tend to follow the culture of our parents. We then grow up and follow along with pretty much what everyone else in society is doing. I think we all, to a degree, intermittently question the status quo, the purpose, and the morality of the life we are living, but is much harder to opt out and take another pathway than it is to just stay on the inside and fit in with everyone else.

Being the odd one out, the outspoken one, the one who goes against the grain, the one who essentially accuses everyone else of doing something negative, brings with it some very difficult challenges. Your whole family just got murdered apart from your cancer stricken mother? By all means have faith in the future. This is not advice on how to avoid the tragedy of life but to realise your place within it.

Life is indeed tragic and beautiful. Like life and death, suffering and joy are intrinsically linked. They are interdependent. You, me, all of us, we are small parts of this interdependent cycle that create the point of life. There are an infinite number of living organisms that make up the picture, and none of them can see the picture in its entirety.

There is comfort to be found in that. Great article. OK, so I get that the point to life is life itself, I get that I have learned bucket loads of stuff over my almost 60 year life, but now what do I do with all of this learning. Will it come with me, have I just wasted the knowledge that I have learned, the traumas and tribulations that I have faced and there has been a lot , and continue to face?

But for every milestone, another appears. For every dollar, every personal goal, every life achievement, there will be another created by the mind. This causes us to feel restless, stressed, unsettled and always like something is missing. This moment, this one right now, is life. Whatever is happening now is the point, because time is an illusion — something fabricated in our minds. When we accept that none of the problems we face, or the successes we achieve, have no inherent meaning to Mother Nature, and like everything else we will live and die according to the rules of impermanence that every other organism ensures, everything starts to make more sense.

Also let your thoughtsleave you a night you restless thinkers! I know i cant. Hope you had a good sleep and the day will shine brightly for you tomorrow. If life is precious, why do we loose it all in the end. I mean, after we die, none of the things that we do actually mean anything.

So whats the point of trying so hard when doing something. In my view life is a pointless pointless cycle that happen to be accompanied by unnecessary pain and suffering with occasional happiness every now and then. To lose it suggests we own it, or have owned it. Life is impermanent and ever-evolving. If life cycles, if one thing dies and out of that bacteria grows new life, then is it ever lost? Surely it just takes on a different physical form?

I think life is precious in that collectively we can take care of each other, of our planet, and reduce suffering and improve the time we spend here. Indeed, it could be said that there is absolutely no point. The modern concept of success and failure are social constructs that have no interest to Mother Nature.

Fundamentally, she wants us to eat, sleep, take care of our environment and reproduce. Should companies and individuals also have such purpose to bring meaning to their careers…? Why do I do what I do, I thought..

Because then, knowing that deep down I want to leave this life having been a force for good, I can pursue a desire to fulfill that goal, make a positive impact on the planet rather than a negative impression. To sustain life for future generations. Then I thought, is it better to be the Charity Water Aid etc or to be the multi-national profit making entity that pumps millions of pounds annually into such charity to help them do their work?

So, what about this article? Well, I liked it, because it made me aware of a couple of simple truths. So, are you happy right now? Yes, great. Or does it, is it something else? Your belief is that when you sort it you will become happy, but will you? Take immediate action to be happy and work from there, in each moment. Like with your career. Find what you like and do that. So maybe the point of life is life itself, because what else can there be? Are we only here to procreate, or not?

If humans no longer existed would it matter..? Be a good person, be happy in the now, live a sustainable life so others can benefit from the same happiness you had in your existence. I like being alive, I like experiencing the world and people in it. Selflessness of others gave me that opportunity or selfishness, whatever you think so I need to be happy and make sure others can have that same experience however I can. I was brought into this world without choice, nothing before and probably nothing after which begs the question WHY?

To experience a bit of happy and a lot of struggle and pain so I can live in the moment. For some reason it does not add up. Ask the refugees, the millions dead thru the centuries lost to time.

And with that inevitably comes some suffering. But the fact is that much of the suffering, like the example you gave, is avoidable. Indeed, much of our suffering is self-inflicted. What we know is that if we work together and utilise our intelligence and science and technology to its full potential, we can reduce suffering and improve life for our planet.

Easily said than done. Compare people to years ago to now. We live in a paradise. I think we are too disconnected from nature, disconnected from ourselves, and caught up in this idea that material growth is the measure of our success. I mean, at the very core of our lives is the economy, and all politicians talk about is how much the economy has grown and how we need to achieve more growth, as if sustainability is a bad thing!? The majority of people are caught up in a culture that promotes the idea that the material wealth of a person is a measure of their worth: We are obsessed with more: bigger, better, faster, more expensive, better looking.

We are constantly in a mode of striving to achieve more, to have a bigger house, to have a better job, to be perceived as important or valued, to fit in, to be accepted. Of course, I accept that it is human nature to want to improve your lot in life and have a better cave, so to speak, and eat better food, and have better clothing to wear in the winter. But we have the resources and technology to create a better life for everyone without destroying our mental and physical health and the environment.

Generally people are very stressed. Many of us live very unnatural lives, sitting in offices for eight hours or more a day, spending fewer and fewer hours with our families because we have to work — some people a second job — just to pay the bills.

And inevitably in such a fast paced, highly competitive environment where it is very difficult to sustain the standard of living expected of you, or to be a certain type of person, be those expectations from your parents or society at large, some people inevitably cannot cope. Compound this with the coping mechanism people develop: poor nutrition, excess alcohol, recreational drugs, prescription medication, and you are creating a recipe for depression and potential suicide.

We should be encouraging people to work less, to spend more time with their families, to enjoy more social activities, to get out into nature more and turn off our phone and television, to exercise more, to eat more natural and less processed foods, to enjoy more live music, poetry, read more books…. For example, I live in a more leafy area now. I literally came in and straight away got a chair and sat in the garden and listened to the birds overhead for 20 minutes — to re-centre myself.

For example:. Over the course of 8 years, Japanese officials studied the physiological and psychological impact of forest bathing. When compared to the city, they found that levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, dropped after participants spent just 30 minutes immersed in nature.

Furthermore, the study showed that time spent outdoors can even help bolster immunity, increasing the activity of human natural killer NK cells, which protect us from cancer, amongst other diseases. And such protective effects appeared long-standing, lasting up to a month after a weekend spent in nature. Good luck on your quest and dont forget to hit the top floor button in the elevator of life. Who knows where it will take you. Whereas by now we know through science that our perception is only adapted to our immediate needs, and we only see a fraction of our reality.

What you are doing is choosing to limit yourself to the signals to your senses and shutting your mind to the possiblity of to anything outside of it — because as you wrote, it is indeed easier. If you did, you might get scared and become fearful, and the abyss might look back through you. This, you do in spite of that fact that science is already hinting us at a reality that is much more vast and complex than we ever thought in religion.

Life is to exist and reproduce. It is the fundamental requisite of our energy fueled cellular being. Free floating anxiety results from any perceived threat to our existence or our ability to reproduce at a cellular level. Life is unpredictable, chaotic, and non-supportive of sustaining our cellular life.

Busy people spend less time in reflection and thought and more time in actions and distraction. The more distractions which can include art, music, video games, videos, other entertainment, work, hobbies, care giving, etc.

My personal experience is that there is sanctuary to be found in stopping to ponder, ask questions, understand and accept things for what they are, instead of continually immersing myself in distractions to avoid the inevitable nagging questions that want to be answered. Surely there is contentment to be found with a balance between the two? Why does everyone write as if what they say is fact.

This entire article is subjective in nature. The only true fact we know is that we try to understand this world the best we can with the skills and technology we have. There is still so much we do not understand in this world and never will.

We are weak, small and insignificant. So determined are we to find the best path to a life of purpose that we get bogged down in the decisions we make. We strive to maximize each and every outcome, but we can never know whether the decision we made was actually the best one available to us. A satisficer is defined as a person who settles for an option which is good enough without necessarily being the one that leads to an optimal outcome.

Satisficers are less likely to experience regret, and they are more likely to be happy with the decisions they make source. You could bring the train to a halt and spend ages trying to decide whether to veer left or veer right….

When we obsess about finding the one true point to life, we overlook the riches right in front of our eyes. You will feel disappointed or even distressed by events. Sometimes you just have to stick things out and wait for life to unfold.

And this can take a while. You think that if you can add purpose to your life, it can help fill the hole caused by the pain you currently feel. You can certainly look for reasons to persevere through your current hardship — things that give you the energy to keep going.

But accepting that you will feel bad at times allows you to avoid the trap of pinning all your hopes on finding your true purpose. One reason is that they see what other people are doing and they wonder whether they should be doing that too. The key is to try not to see what others are doing as some ideal life and not to accept what others are saying as some gospel truth.

If you long for the lives of other people, you put them up on some pedestal. But they almost certainly face many of the same challenges — the same discomforts — as you. If they seem genuinely happy, ask yourself whether they have truly discovered some single, overarching point to life or whether they are just able to embrace the moments of life and the journey they are on.

And if someone disagrees with how you live your life — if they belittle the choices you make — position this as their point of view and nothing more.