What's the purpose of life, actually? Just wondering...

Have you all ever thought even once in your life about what is the purpose of living here?

I mean, we're born into this world, go to school, eat and sleep, find a job just to stay alive.

Maybe buy a car, buy property, get married, have children.

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Then we think even deeply that all the stuff we do is actually useless and doesn't worth it.

Any opinions?


life is about resilience.

When we face failure, it's a chance to learn, grow, and try again.

Success is often not defined by never falling, but by how we rise after falling.

It's the ability to keep pushing forward, adapting, and finding new ways to achieve our goals that ultimately leads to success.


correct?




Can some intelligent explain to me what’s the meaning of life?


Is it all about money?

LIFE = goal of life?

Love?

marriage?

children?

Travel?

Competition?

Work?

Entertaiment?

Travel?

humour ？


Food?

Branded items?

Car?

Property?

Movie?

Sports?

power?

business?

social position?



What do you regret the most in your life?




Throughout our lives,


1)many of us are born,
2)educated,
3)find jobs,
4)finding a life partner ,
5)married,

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6)have children,
7) teach your children ,
8)advance in our careers,

9)retire at age 65 or 68 ( Starting in 2026, the system may shift from a lump-sum withdrawal to monthly withdrawals, potentially impacting all members born in 1980 or later. )

10)and eventually pass away.

What is the meaning of life?

What is the meaning behind all this?


Do we live like cow ？




"We're all going to die one day. Is there any achievement or purpose to life?


Someone answered: 'Happiness.' To be happy, we need money, so we work hard all our lives to earn it. However, most of us hate the work we do, meaning every moment is unhappy.



Day after day, we feel further away from the goal of happiness due to education debt, home loans, medical bills, and the cycle of working every day just to make money for the rest of our 70 years. What do we get at the end of it?


Some of us never achieve anything and therefore aren't happy. Some of us accumulate wealth and power but still aren't happy. Let's say you have 100 million today, like everyone else.



One day you die and return to the soil. In 2024, you die; 100 years later, in 2124, does your 100 million have any meaning? No one will remember you. Your 100 million may be important to you, but no one else knows it.



You'll be found out! Will there be WW3, WW4, or in 2200, maybe Earth won't exist, or humanity will be extinct like the dinosaurs, leaving no trace of human life on Earth. So, what's your goal? There will be no one there to remember you."







DISCUSS IT.

This post has been edited by plouffle0789: Jan 14 2025, 10:46 PM

life is about make money.

Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down.

Suggest you listen to Alan Watts. You'll find your answers there

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42

Life is about /k

Their marriage ended eleven years later, but Watts continued to exchange letters with his mother-in-law, Ruth Fuller Everett. In the 1960s, Watts and his wife Mary Jane lived in Sausalito, California. In his later years, he sometimes lived in a houseboat and other times in his cabin on Mount Tamalpais.


Due to societal and economic pressures, he frequently used alcohol to numb himself, which worsened his health.


In October 1973, Watts returned to his cabin on Mount Tamalpais exhausted after giving lectures in Europe. He died in his sleep the following month from heart failure at the age of 58.




Bondi Blue: If life has no meaning, what drives humanity to continue living it to the fullest?

Religious explanation point of view

Yolo

to enjoy by having able to see the wonders of earth

n to do this, need money

so work hard to make money

Yolo.get cambodia gf hghhhhhh

For some, it is reproduction.

BORN -> STUDY -> WORK -> MARRY -> PROCREATE/Have CHILDREN -> RETIRE -> DIE

If only the rich who has so much excess and living comfortably share their wealth to the unfortunate.

Say you own 1000 homes, have a set of 50 luxury cars, 10 wives, 20 children Eat Michelin Restaurants >4Meals a day, go holiday overseas several times a year.

When you die you cannot take them along with you. Instead with the excess you have, why not donate to the needy and the unfortunate. Let everyone remember you when you die and tell the story of you as a saint when you were still alive?

The rest as King Solomon says are MEANINGLESS in the Ecclesiastes book he authored.

Asking you to checkout his work on philosophy. Not his life

Just pointing out with good intention since you wanted to understand the meaning of life

Seems like you're more focus on finding the bad in others. Can't help you

Wish you all the best

Yi / Shi / Zhu / Sin

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The more knowledge you seek, the more sorrow/sadness will haunt you.

The more world material you seek the more fearful you will become because you fear someone will overtake you one day or steal all your belongings.

Death will eventually take everything from you one day and you'll not be able to take it along with you.

To customize ur own death. Trust me bero

every consciousness, including you, me., plants. animals are all part of the universe.

lessons learnt by conscious beings alters the total intelligence of the universe

Life is about waiting to die.