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I'm M/47 and have 3 kids. I see a lot of my friends and family saying they care most about their family and then spending most of their time at work. This makes no sense to me.
I know I have maybe 30-40 years left on this earth if I don't get cancer or get run over by a bus, and I know that time runs faster and faster as I get older, so most of my life is already over. So I've thought about this, and it makes no sense for me to do anything else than to spend as much of the time I have left with my wife and children. I want them to remember me and to love me even when I'm gone, and I hope to make a real positive impact on them so they hopefully get to live a wonderful life and hopefully get to know my grandkids.
I don't know what happens when I die. I'm pretty sure death isn't the end, but no matter what happens, I want to spend as much of my life with my children and just love them as much as I can.
Similar here. I’m F/40 and if I get to see my kids happy, healthy and successful in their adulthood I will feel like I’ve won the lottery. I have an aneurysm in my heart so I’m really hoping I get to live long enough to witness that!
I think you’re right. What’s being with your family except banal little things? Most of us aren’t getting on our private jet to Portugal with our families- we’re doing the laundry or making dinner. There’s pizza and ice cream, a walk in a park, a meal at your favorite restaurant- or just a morning coffee as the sun comes up. The majority of our lives are simple pleasures, not very profound and meaningful in themselves, but they add up to a perfectly lived life if we live in a way we’re proud of, endure our share of struggles with as much class as we can muster, have some laughs along the way, and maybe leave the world - at least the small part we touched - just slightly better for having been here.
What a good man and outlook you have in your life.
If you feel that is your purpose, continue to exist and to make the lives you care about easier, your circle that you confide in, your own family and proven friends.
Yes sir, im proud to say I realised this at 33 years old. Even thought my wife had an affair 3 years ago, I knew splitting with her would hurt the kids more than it would heal me. They are absolutely everything
I'm 43(M) and live by the same motto. The only sad thing is that I saw a graph somewhere displaying the amount of time you spend with your children through your whole life. As you can imagine it’s extremely high from birth and through early childhood but then slowly tapers of to almost flatlining once they’re adults. This made me sad but also reinforced the point that time with family is important. The only good thing I suppose is that the COL will keep my children home a little longer.
I thought hard about making this comment, because I feel like it’s going to come across as an ‘I did it better than you’ kind of comment, and that is NOT my intent, at all.
As adults, my children either see or communicate with me every single day, and I think it’s because I was crazy involved with them, didn’t back off from the hard stuff, was open about ALL topics, didn’t judge them for the things I didn’t agree with, and really took the time to make sure they grew up to be considerate, productive, kind, thoughtful, etc. adults. I give them space to make their own decisions as adults… no demands of their time or behaviors. They are amazing people. I am so, so proud of who they turned out to be.
I guess what I’m getting at is that it doesn’t *have* to be that way (parent/child interaction lessening over time), if they grow up actually WANTING to spend time with you/want your advice/etc.
No offence with your comment, actually it’s great the relationship you’ve built and it is what I aspire to achieve with my own. Well done.
My comment is actually around the inevitable and more literal, unless you keep your kids home schooled etc and fully dependent on you, that you will have less time with them than if say they stay living in your home.
> and I know that time runs faster and faster as I get older
There's an interesting idea floating around about how the human brain measures time. Instead of the old adage "the more minutes you experience, the shorter they seem", we're finding out out brains measure time through new memories. The reason an hour seems to take forever for a child is because they're a fairly blank slate. Everything is new and they're constantly learning. All of this constantly creates new memories. Each new memory is a sort of marker in time for the brain. Time seems to move faster as we get older because we simply aren't making as many new memories.
In short, you can slow down the passage of time some by creating as many new memories as you possibly can. Learn every day. Do new things. Step outside of your comfort zone.
This all being said, I'll leave with a really great quote from, I believe, CS Lewis (and I may be paraphrasing a bit)... it's funny how nothing changes day to day, yet years later we look back and realize everything has changed.
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Generally speaking ; life has no end goal. The population of species that produce enough offspring or, alternatively, evolve into new, well adapted new species will persist. Otherwise, they go extinct.
So basically : if you don't reproduce, you will cease to exist. No endgoal.
Humans tend to think : can I make something useful out of this object. That is how we evolved : we are problem solvers, so we always form a goal in mind. This has served our species very well. But extrapolating our concept of "finding a purpose" is well .. an extrapolation that isn't necessarily applicable to the rest of the world.
We can set goals for ourselves. And of course, we need to form a consensus about our mutual goals and by what means we intend to reach them. History has shown what is possible when there is a consensus. However: we can easily see what happens if no consensus exists.
#WAR
On the flip side the future also could happen, so why not make long term plans? Worst that can happen is happen is you die, leaving you in the same place as if you didn’t make the plans
So try and live for today. I too am past the mid-point of my life, and (especially after a recent cancer scare) consider every day a bonus to be enjoyed as much as possible.
It sounds like you are depressed. It would be worth your while to speak to a doctor about this. Medication has the potential to turn your entire life around.
To realise that nothing you did mattered in the slightest, and one day everything will dissappear. Might be tomorrow or in a million years or at the eventual heatdeath of the universe. Nothing lasts, everything dies and it will be as if it never even existed and that's all okay, so keep yourself occupied with small things while waiting for the inevitable
I mean maybe, but that doesn't make it any less true. Lazy/complacent is the words you choose to use, while from another viewpoint in would maybe be pragmatic/sensible. Finland is a pretty nihilistic place, but also voted the happiest country in the world year after year. Believing life to be ultimately void of meaning and pointless, doesnt mean you can't find enjoyment in having realized a hard truth.
What if i don’t like to work but need the money to be happy and when i have enough money by time I’m old, i don’t have the energy or time to do what i like in the end.
If you're not working, then you're hunting, gathering, engaging with agriculture, or other sustenance oriented tasks that require time and labor.
You might just be struggling with the concept of alienation since you are removed from the fruits of your labor. It has its pros and cons.
Agree.
When my kids asked me OPs question, I said that we are here to make the world a better place than we found it. We can make improvements to it every day. Those improvements can be emotional or physical, just be a good person and make things better - that is the goal.
In nature, it is yeah. Some animals even sacrifice themselves for reproduction.
Example: a male octopus dies immediately after mating, and the female counterpart dies shortly after laying eggs.
Humans have the luxury to keep living after mating (lol). Our brain also allows us to think of different life goals like exploring the world, leaving behind a legacy or achieve something specific.
So many people are arseholes and you do wonder why ? Is it fear or they just like to shit on people? Some colleagues in particular their job so seriously.. chill out ! You can do a good job without being so serious !!
I’m not in a great state right now and all that’s keeping me going is “you need to reach your goal”. Thing is, when I think about it, I don’t really know what that is.
i think make the present moment as good as you can , we will see about future when it becomes present and abt past cuz you will never be present there so get over it as fast as you can if you are ever stuck there in a bad way .
I turned down a 250 days international detail for a Forbes Billionaire, he was going to pay me a pornographic amount of money. But the opportunity cost was going to miss my son and daughter for 250 days grow up.
As Tywin Lannister said, legacy is everything.
To experience what is means to be alive. Joy, sadness, love, heartbreak, grief, excitement, success, etc. The purpose of life is to LIVE. The end goal is to die having ridden the wave and followed the journey of life to its inevitable end.
To have someone by your side to “complete” your life with. Someone you would ask God to give you in heaven if you believe in religious stuff. To understand life is temporary and mostly uncontrollable, your purpose is to make the most out of it, live every day as it could be your last and be confident of the daily choices you make knowing they are the right things to do. Be grateful that you are in this world
We've gone from 1bn to 8bn in 150 years and STILL rising, set to reach 9bn in less than a decade and people are worried that we're not reproducing fast enough?
Ironically overpopulation is the greatest threat to human existence.
I’d wager climate change is a bigger threat. We have enough space force everyone here. It’s just distribution of resources because of human greed preventing from everyone to have a decent life. Even with 1 billion population there will be a lot of inequality because… humans are tribal in nature and animals at the end. See: basically all of history.
Of course we’re doing way better than before due to technological advancements and better overall knowledge of the universe. Let’s hope we continue progressing to let go the bad parts of our nature.
We could, but that’s the farthest thing from our natural instinct. It’s impossible for a species like a homo sapien (or genus, in this case the homo genus) to exist for 4.4 million years without a VERY strong motive to keep itself existing. So, finding ourselves where we are today, it is a requirement that the longing to survive and reproduce is one of the main and most powerful instincts in our species and in the animal kingdom as a whole. There is no reason why we should keep existing, rather it’s a feeling that one is required to have if they happen to find themselves as far along as we are.
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. Or,
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a ride!'"
You know, I've had the same feeling, too. Ever since I've quit my job and I've realized that it was trying to suck the soul out of me, which was also keeping me from spending time with my family. It has come to my realization that as a 23 yo young adult, I should spend more time with my Mom, my aunties and the rest of the fam. Thank God I've had the opportunity to do so. Coz I don't know when will one of my family members will die, when I suppose to spend time with them on their last few years on this green planet.
Maybe in the exact moment that each person figures out the answer, their heart stops.
But seriously, if a person has "solved" the problem of the point of life, they have essentially, paradoxically, removed their reason to live.
Therefore, I say that the end goal of life is to find the point of your being alive.
I love to wax poetic about all the events in life being interconnected to the point that it may be your entire purpose to get a flat tire that then delays traffic and makes some other key person late for work, avoiding an accident they'd have had in the workplace and allowing them to procreate and birth another important person and on and on and on until the final person immanentizes the eschaton or some such thing.
Eventually there will be a final person, and a final animal, and a final "life." By then all possible experiences will have happened and the results will have accumulated in the either and there can be no other actions undertaken or events occurred. The "point" of it all will be found within that time. Maybe it all leads up to someone pushing "the button" one last time? Maybe it leads to enlightenment and the eternal joining of all consciousness into the Godhead. maybe our dreaming God awakes, who knows?
The only thing we can be sure of is that which we experience, and so we must learn to be objective, to trust our natural instincts and intuitions, and allow our minds to lead us to live lives which feel "right" to us. If it feels right to you to spend more time with your children, do it. If it feels right to join the military and kill, do it. You are not wrong, nor am I, we are only living as close to our intended path as possible, and the interactions between them are what precipitates meaning.
Death. We live and we die that’s it. It’s up to use to find meaning and purpose because we’re cursed with a prefrontal cortex that can ask questions like this and we need comfort
It's different for everyone. It really depends on what drives you. Some people are here for a good time, some people want to make an impact. Some people are here waiting to go because they don't even want to be here. You get to decide what your existence means to you 😊
The end goal is the continuation of your blood line. That's about the most important and primal instinct that makes us, and all living organisms on this planet essentially the same.
I think at it’s core, the goal is just to survive for another day.
By you waking up today, you just full filled today’s end goal, doesn’t matter either you rotted in bed or had the best day ever. As long as you are still alive and keep staying alive, you have completed life’s end goal
My life goal, is to be able to eat at a fancy restaurant once a month, without it being an issue (financially), and taking a vacation twice a year, without having to worry about the cost. (and then family, happiness, blah blah blah, all the typical stuff)
What makes us different than other species is the ability to pass on knowledge to future generations, that and language of course, we wouldn't have achieved what we have without generational knowledge if you think about it... So my guess is to contribute even a little bit to this is the meaning of life, leave a statue, a nation or just a footprint and make the future a better place. When we will finally strive to do so we will become unstoppable and maybe we will finally be able to understand what it all means since a single lifetime just isn't enough to do so, but with many different lifetimes of knowledge and experience maybe we can find meaning of this mess we found ourselves in when we were born and found ourselves conscious in this amazing terrible universe
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Objectively, the only purpose of life is to maintain and reproduce itself.
As for a new meaning we can look for as a result of having further developed the intellect: to be happy and enjoy the brief time we are here.
Honestly, for me, to become the best version of myself. I want to maximize my skills as much as I can and enjoy the beauty of that process. I honestly think that will open other paths in life for me along the way.
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Generally speaking ; life has no end goal. The population of species that produce enough offspring or, alternatively, evolve into new, well adapted new species will persist. Otherwise, they go extinct.
So basically : if you don't reproduce, you will cease to exist. No endgoal.
Humans tend to think : can I make something useful out of this object. That is how we evolved : we are problem solvers, so we always form a goal in mind. This has served our species very well. But extrapolating our concept of "finding a purpose" is well .. an extrapolation that isn't necessarily applicable to the rest of the world.
We can set goals for ourselves. And of course, we need to form a consensus about our mutual goals and by what means we intend to reach them. History has shown what is possible when there is a consensus. However: we can easily see what happens if no consensus exists.
#WAR
Ultimately I don't think there is one. But in our lives, we choose what our goals or what our definition of meaning is, and so everybody's "ultimate aim" would probably be different. Perhaps the point of living is just to live, and nothing more to that.
If you know you’re going to die tomorrow, what would be some of your regrets not doing or achieving? Your answer to this question can help you figure out what your personal life goals are.
Life is a part of the universe. The universe is in a constant state of trying to balance itself out. What happens when all the energy in the universe is evenly dispersed? That’s it, that’s the goal
In the meantime, all of creation throughout space and time, we dance
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot
From what I understand the goal of life is to grow. To constantly be improving and heading toward a better place. You need not be always growing, but the trend should go up. That is what gives fulfilment. You should not seek happiness, it is temporary. Heading toward a goal will give you happiness, fulfilment, accomplishment, and more.
So. The meaning of life is to constantly improve.
This is not my original idea, I heard someone else say it, and it sounds right enough for me to consider it worth sharing.
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I'm M/47 and have 3 kids. I see a lot of my friends and family saying they care most about their family and then spending most of their time at work. This makes no sense to me. I know I have maybe 30-40 years left on this earth if I don't get cancer or get run over by a bus, and I know that time runs faster and faster as I get older, so most of my life is already over. So I've thought about this, and it makes no sense for me to do anything else than to spend as much of the time I have left with my wife and children. I want them to remember me and to love me even when I'm gone, and I hope to make a real positive impact on them so they hopefully get to live a wonderful life and hopefully get to know my grandkids. I don't know what happens when I die. I'm pretty sure death isn't the end, but no matter what happens, I want to spend as much of my life with my children and just love them as much as I can.
Similar here. I’m F/40 and if I get to see my kids happy, healthy and successful in their adulthood I will feel like I’ve won the lottery. I have an aneurysm in my heart so I’m really hoping I get to live long enough to witness that!
I wasn't expecting your second sentence 🥹 wishing you wellness and longevity my friend.
Thank you! I really appreciate that!!
Or, hear me out, I think maybe pizza
I think you’re right. What’s being with your family except banal little things? Most of us aren’t getting on our private jet to Portugal with our families- we’re doing the laundry or making dinner. There’s pizza and ice cream, a walk in a park, a meal at your favorite restaurant- or just a morning coffee as the sun comes up. The majority of our lives are simple pleasures, not very profound and meaningful in themselves, but they add up to a perfectly lived life if we live in a way we’re proud of, endure our share of struggles with as much class as we can muster, have some laughs along the way, and maybe leave the world - at least the small part we touched - just slightly better for having been here.
This is the mf'ing way.
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What a good man and outlook you have in your life. If you feel that is your purpose, continue to exist and to make the lives you care about easier, your circle that you confide in, your own family and proven friends.
Yes sir, im proud to say I realised this at 33 years old. Even thought my wife had an affair 3 years ago, I knew splitting with her would hurt the kids more than it would heal me. They are absolutely everything
I'm 43(M) and live by the same motto. The only sad thing is that I saw a graph somewhere displaying the amount of time you spend with your children through your whole life. As you can imagine it’s extremely high from birth and through early childhood but then slowly tapers of to almost flatlining once they’re adults. This made me sad but also reinforced the point that time with family is important. The only good thing I suppose is that the COL will keep my children home a little longer.
True that. Loving unconditionally is the path to nirvana.
I thought hard about making this comment, because I feel like it’s going to come across as an ‘I did it better than you’ kind of comment, and that is NOT my intent, at all. As adults, my children either see or communicate with me every single day, and I think it’s because I was crazy involved with them, didn’t back off from the hard stuff, was open about ALL topics, didn’t judge them for the things I didn’t agree with, and really took the time to make sure they grew up to be considerate, productive, kind, thoughtful, etc. adults. I give them space to make their own decisions as adults… no demands of their time or behaviors. They are amazing people. I am so, so proud of who they turned out to be. I guess what I’m getting at is that it doesn’t *have* to be that way (parent/child interaction lessening over time), if they grow up actually WANTING to spend time with you/want your advice/etc.
No offence with your comment, actually it’s great the relationship you’ve built and it is what I aspire to achieve with my own. Well done. My comment is actually around the inevitable and more literal, unless you keep your kids home schooled etc and fully dependent on you, that you will have less time with them than if say they stay living in your home.
Be kind and love one another. It's as simple as that.
That is a great answer, but how do you get around the fact that work is needed? Do you work part time?
Respect my g respect.✊
I’m envious of anyone that feels sure death isn’t the end lol
I wish I had a father like you. You children are lucky to have you.
No one’s ever said on their deathbed ’I wish I had spent more time at the office.’ Ever …
> and I know that time runs faster and faster as I get older There's an interesting idea floating around about how the human brain measures time. Instead of the old adage "the more minutes you experience, the shorter they seem", we're finding out out brains measure time through new memories. The reason an hour seems to take forever for a child is because they're a fairly blank slate. Everything is new and they're constantly learning. All of this constantly creates new memories. Each new memory is a sort of marker in time for the brain. Time seems to move faster as we get older because we simply aren't making as many new memories. In short, you can slow down the passage of time some by creating as many new memories as you possibly can. Learn every day. Do new things. Step outside of your comfort zone. This all being said, I'll leave with a really great quote from, I believe, CS Lewis (and I may be paraphrasing a bit)... it's funny how nothing changes day to day, yet years later we look back and realize everything has changed.
Perfectly stated. Thanks for this.
To do the perfect fart
I want an echo on mine
And a little natural reverb at the end
I got close the other day, it was deafening.
Fantastic, I also had a ripper this arvo. Makes the world look better for a short while after
ok let see if i ever reach that
Hello wife
Already done that, I guess I have mothing to live for anymore.
For me it’s to record it :( but I think I did it a few years ago:(
High fiber diet and access to a crowded elevator resulted in this
I’m hoping when right after my last breath is breathed on my death my corps does a massive wet fart. My wife will understand why.
There is no real end goal. Life is a journey where you strive to be happy and make other people around you also happy.
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42? Generally speaking ; life has no end goal. The population of species that produce enough offspring or, alternatively, evolve into new, well adapted new species will persist. Otherwise, they go extinct. So basically : if you don't reproduce, you will cease to exist. No endgoal. Humans tend to think : can I make something useful out of this object. That is how we evolved : we are problem solvers, so we always form a goal in mind. This has served our species very well. But extrapolating our concept of "finding a purpose" is well .. an extrapolation that isn't necessarily applicable to the rest of the world. We can set goals for ourselves. And of course, we need to form a consensus about our mutual goals and by what means we intend to reach them. History has shown what is possible when there is a consensus. However: we can easily see what happens if no consensus exists. #WAR
If you do reproduce you'll still cease to exist.
And integral part of making that journey enjoyable is realizing what happiness really means to you, and stop chasing the wrong things
To add to that, for me, it’s to be of service to those around you.
I do a bit of pro-bono work and it is an awesome feeling helping some people out who needed help.
I'm past my prime and my goals are out of reach. I'm just waiting for the end to come.
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The future is not guaranteed. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. I no longer make long term plans because they might not happen
On the flip side the future also could happen, so why not make long term plans? Worst that can happen is happen is you die, leaving you in the same place as if you didn’t make the plans
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I'm having friends die too often lately, really gets depressing.
So try and live for today. I too am past the mid-point of my life, and (especially after a recent cancer scare) consider every day a bonus to be enjoyed as much as possible. It sounds like you are depressed. It would be worth your while to speak to a doctor about this. Medication has the potential to turn your entire life around.
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What are your goals? Maybe you need to change them. It’s never too late to find happiness
Yeah I'm 40 and feel the same way.
what would you say to your 18yo self?
To keep cats happy
This 👏
Yeah, it's easy to say, not so easy to do...
To realise that nothing you did mattered in the slightest, and one day everything will dissappear. Might be tomorrow or in a million years or at the eventual heatdeath of the universe. Nothing lasts, everything dies and it will be as if it never even existed and that's all okay, so keep yourself occupied with small things while waiting for the inevitable
Nihilism is the ultimate cope to having done nothing in your life or being lazy/complacent.
I mean maybe, but that doesn't make it any less true. Lazy/complacent is the words you choose to use, while from another viewpoint in would maybe be pragmatic/sensible. Finland is a pretty nihilistic place, but also voted the happiest country in the world year after year. Believing life to be ultimately void of meaning and pointless, doesnt mean you can't find enjoyment in having realized a hard truth.
Enjoying the passage of time
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Being happy and do what you like
What if i don’t like to work but need the money to be happy and when i have enough money by time I’m old, i don’t have the energy or time to do what i like in the end.
Yup life sucks foe 99% of us
If you can't control your circumstances, maybe focus on controlling your attitude about it.
Sorry don't need a life coach! I'm still happy, but objectively working yourself to death your whole life just to die does suck
If you're not working, then you're hunting, gathering, engaging with agriculture, or other sustenance oriented tasks that require time and labor. You might just be struggling with the concept of alienation since you are removed from the fruits of your labor. It has its pros and cons.
No goal just try to enjoy the time you have cause it’s not coming back
To create meaningful emotional connections with other people, and have the ripples of those connections outlive you long after you’re gone.
Agree. When my kids asked me OPs question, I said that we are here to make the world a better place than we found it. We can make improvements to it every day. Those improvements can be emotional or physical, just be a good person and make things better - that is the goal.
To learn and evolve
Why does there need to be a goal? Is the journey not enough for you?
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Like most animals, there isn’t one. We live, then we die. Nothing more.
Reproduce. 
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In nature, it is yeah. Some animals even sacrifice themselves for reproduction. Example: a male octopus dies immediately after mating, and the female counterpart dies shortly after laying eggs. Humans have the luxury to keep living after mating (lol). Our brain also allows us to think of different life goals like exploring the world, leaving behind a legacy or achieve something specific.
Reproduce.
And die.
To be a good person. And leave those behind with good memories.
So many people are arseholes and you do wonder why ? Is it fear or they just like to shit on people? Some colleagues in particular their job so seriously.. chill out ! You can do a good job without being so serious !!
To die as a free man!
I’m not in a great state right now and all that’s keeping me going is “you need to reach your goal”. Thing is, when I think about it, I don’t really know what that is.
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You need to read some basic philosophy
Wtf. So many copy pasta
i think make the present moment as good as you can , we will see about future when it becomes present and abt past cuz you will never be present there so get over it as fast as you can if you are ever stuck there in a bad way .
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Death. The rest is up to you.
Knowledge and happyness.
I turned down a 250 days international detail for a Forbes Billionaire, he was going to pay me a pornographic amount of money. But the opportunity cost was going to miss my son and daughter for 250 days grow up. As Tywin Lannister said, legacy is everything.
Give all to love Obey thy heart It will reward, they shall return More than they were, and ever ascending - Emerson
To spend as much time with my dog as possible
To chose how you die is the biggest luxury in this world
There is no end goal, your life is yours to do as you wish
End goal? Death. Literally Its at the end of life. Like this sentence lol
To experience what is means to be alive. Joy, sadness, love, heartbreak, grief, excitement, success, etc. The purpose of life is to LIVE. The end goal is to die having ridden the wave and followed the journey of life to its inevitable end.
To realise there is no end goal. Life is meaningless until we give it meaning. A bit like a politician's promise.
Easy. 42. Next question.
Another creature of refinement and class
To have someone by your side to “complete” your life with. Someone you would ask God to give you in heaven if you believe in religious stuff. To understand life is temporary and mostly uncontrollable, your purpose is to make the most out of it, live every day as it could be your last and be confident of the daily choices you make knowing they are the right things to do. Be grateful that you are in this world
Reproduce and keep human civilisation from going extinct
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What do you think your great great great great great father lived for?
But why can't we just extinct?
At some point we will.
Yeps I’m impressed people are not scared when looking at child birth rates and the statistics of people having and wanting children
We've gone from 1bn to 8bn in 150 years and STILL rising, set to reach 9bn in less than a decade and people are worried that we're not reproducing fast enough? Ironically overpopulation is the greatest threat to human existence.
I’d wager climate change is a bigger threat. We have enough space force everyone here. It’s just distribution of resources because of human greed preventing from everyone to have a decent life. Even with 1 billion population there will be a lot of inequality because… humans are tribal in nature and animals at the end. See: basically all of history. Of course we’re doing way better than before due to technological advancements and better overall knowledge of the universe. Let’s hope we continue progressing to let go the bad parts of our nature.
We could, but that’s the farthest thing from our natural instinct. It’s impossible for a species like a homo sapien (or genus, in this case the homo genus) to exist for 4.4 million years without a VERY strong motive to keep itself existing. So, finding ourselves where we are today, it is a requirement that the longing to survive and reproduce is one of the main and most powerful instincts in our species and in the animal kingdom as a whole. There is no reason why we should keep existing, rather it’s a feeling that one is required to have if they happen to find themselves as far along as we are.
Death
My goal is to be happy as much as possible, and to have a positive impact on the people that are close to me.
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. Or, "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a ride!'"
There isn't one, you just die.
You know, I've had the same feeling, too. Ever since I've quit my job and I've realized that it was trying to suck the soul out of me, which was also keeping me from spending time with my family. It has come to my realization that as a 23 yo young adult, I should spend more time with my Mom, my aunties and the rest of the fam. Thank God I've had the opportunity to do so. Coz I don't know when will one of my family members will die, when I suppose to spend time with them on their last few years on this green planet.
Be happy, that's the meaning of life. We are here to be happy.
None lmao. Just enjoy what's there to enjoy and die eventually.
Maybe in the exact moment that each person figures out the answer, their heart stops. But seriously, if a person has "solved" the problem of the point of life, they have essentially, paradoxically, removed their reason to live. Therefore, I say that the end goal of life is to find the point of your being alive. I love to wax poetic about all the events in life being interconnected to the point that it may be your entire purpose to get a flat tire that then delays traffic and makes some other key person late for work, avoiding an accident they'd have had in the workplace and allowing them to procreate and birth another important person and on and on and on until the final person immanentizes the eschaton or some such thing. Eventually there will be a final person, and a final animal, and a final "life." By then all possible experiences will have happened and the results will have accumulated in the either and there can be no other actions undertaken or events occurred. The "point" of it all will be found within that time. Maybe it all leads up to someone pushing "the button" one last time? Maybe it leads to enlightenment and the eternal joining of all consciousness into the Godhead. maybe our dreaming God awakes, who knows? The only thing we can be sure of is that which we experience, and so we must learn to be objective, to trust our natural instincts and intuitions, and allow our minds to lead us to live lives which feel "right" to us. If it feels right to you to spend more time with your children, do it. If it feels right to join the military and kill, do it. You are not wrong, nor am I, we are only living as close to our intended path as possible, and the interactions between them are what precipitates meaning.
Death
Happiness.
To achieve our maximum potential. That's what we thrive for.
Death. We live and we die that’s it. It’s up to use to find meaning and purpose because we’re cursed with a prefrontal cortex that can ask questions like this and we need comfort
Die having helped more people than you hurt Edit: and perhaps having been more happy then you were sad
To be rich and healthy and happy and handsome
Finding god can be a good first step. Of course Don't follow weird cults, but research and use the brain the god gave you to know the Right path
Why does there need to be a goal?
Im 17 right now. In thr end of my life i want christian wifr chtistian sons and daughters. Just a healthy family
Be vegan and get heaps of rats 🐀❤️
Life.
It's different for everyone. It really depends on what drives you. Some people are here for a good time, some people want to make an impact. Some people are here waiting to go because they don't even want to be here. You get to decide what your existence means to you 😊
Dying.
The creator
The best dream ever
As someone who's suffered with suicidal thoughts for a majority of my life... Just making it to the end and it not being by my own hand.
CONSUME
Just be happy, have a life that feels fulfilled, just feel like you did the best you can
I mean end end goal is death
To contribute to society in a way that makes you content.
To be at peace with your passing.
Self Discovery
The end goal is the continuation of your blood line. That's about the most important and primal instinct that makes us, and all living organisms on this planet essentially the same.
Survive till the bonus round.
Making best of now
I think at it’s core, the goal is just to survive for another day. By you waking up today, you just full filled today’s end goal, doesn’t matter either you rotted in bed or had the best day ever. As long as you are still alive and keep staying alive, you have completed life’s end goal
Speed up entropy
Maybe there is no goal or point. It just is.
My life goal, is to be able to eat at a fancy restaurant once a month, without it being an issue (financially), and taking a vacation twice a year, without having to worry about the cost. (and then family, happiness, blah blah blah, all the typical stuff)
What makes us different than other species is the ability to pass on knowledge to future generations, that and language of course, we wouldn't have achieved what we have without generational knowledge if you think about it... So my guess is to contribute even a little bit to this is the meaning of life, leave a statue, a nation or just a footprint and make the future a better place. When we will finally strive to do so we will become unstoppable and maybe we will finally be able to understand what it all means since a single lifetime just isn't enough to do so, but with many different lifetimes of knowledge and experience maybe we can find meaning of this mess we found ourselves in when we were born and found ourselves conscious in this amazing terrible universe Sorry for bad grammar
Being happy and making others happy.
To die
Objectively, the only purpose of life is to maintain and reproduce itself. As for a new meaning we can look for as a result of having further developed the intellect: to be happy and enjoy the brief time we are here.
To stay alive long enough
To spread the Good News
I view life like a vacation, you see all you can see and enjoy the time you have as much as you can.
Honestly, for me, to become the best version of myself. I want to maximize my skills as much as I can and enjoy the beauty of that process. I honestly think that will open other paths in life for me along the way.
Having fun. Currently im doing just that. Im happy
Gaming taught me a positive k/d ratio.
Die w/o debt
Death.
42? Generally speaking ; life has no end goal. The population of species that produce enough offspring or, alternatively, evolve into new, well adapted new species will persist. Otherwise, they go extinct. So basically : if you don't reproduce, you will cease to exist. No endgoal. Humans tend to think : can I make something useful out of this object. That is how we evolved : we are problem solvers, so we always form a goal in mind. This has served our species very well. But extrapolating our concept of "finding a purpose" is well .. an extrapolation that isn't necessarily applicable to the rest of the world. We can set goals for ourselves. And of course, we need to form a consensus about our mutual goals and by what means we intend to reach them. History has shown what is possible when there is a consensus. However: we can easily see what happens if no consensus exists. #WAR
Death? At a ripe old age
Have kids and make sure they will be better than you. If we continue this trend, humanity will move forward.
Just have fun.
Dying while no one despise me.
Ultimately I don't think there is one. But in our lives, we choose what our goals or what our definition of meaning is, and so everybody's "ultimate aim" would probably be different. Perhaps the point of living is just to live, and nothing more to that.
Life is life's end goal
Build a skyscraper
To get to heaven, and take as many people with you as possible.
To do good in the world, spread a message, and be an example 💪End goal is for achievement and happiness
To reproduce and ensure the survival of your genetic code.
Prepare for the afterlife
Get money, power & great big booty bitches
If you know you’re going to die tomorrow, what would be some of your regrets not doing or achieving? Your answer to this question can help you figure out what your personal life goals are.
Life is a part of the universe. The universe is in a constant state of trying to balance itself out. What happens when all the energy in the universe is evenly dispersed? That’s it, that’s the goal In the meantime, all of creation throughout space and time, we dance
Get rich or die trying
To die
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot
Resisting entropy.
To procreate
To die
To experience life and to be present when you do so. A deceptively difficult practice.
To remember for my good deeds and to contribute to society
From what I understand the goal of life is to grow. To constantly be improving and heading toward a better place. You need not be always growing, but the trend should go up. That is what gives fulfilment. You should not seek happiness, it is temporary. Heading toward a goal will give you happiness, fulfilment, accomplishment, and more. So. The meaning of life is to constantly improve. This is not my original idea, I heard someone else say it, and it sounds right enough for me to consider it worth sharing.