So far from everyone's responses, the purpose of life can be summarized as these:

- Meaningless
- To be a slave
- To explore/maximize one's ability
- No purpose
- To serve others

Personally I think all are right because the goals we set will be driven by the different priorities we have in life. We have a strong need for purpose. That's why some of us can walk out of a high paying job and say, "Its not the money." We like to assign meaning to things that don't necessarily have meaning like lucky numbers. Some of us don't want to set a goal. Nothing wrong with that too. The only time that's wrong is when we subscribe to some dogmatic idea about what existence is supposed to be, usually something we're told by some authority rather than something we experienced for ourselves.

On our own I think most of us look for patterns and try to fit unconnected events into those patterns. I hesitate to say that the purpose our existence is random (= no purpose) because I don't know enough to go either way but I do believe how we came to be is random. We rose out of the interplay of a billion prehistoric unrelated events, from raw chemicals to electricity to climate shifts to the meteor that supposedly wiped out the dinos who, if not for that, will probably still be at the top of the food chain.

I think the purpose of life is what we set it to be. If we decide got purpose, got lah. if no, no lah.