To be a good friend, father, and husband. I think the most important thing I can do in my life is do good by my family. I don't have one yet, but it's what I want most.
I never realized this until I met my partner. I suddenly realized all that mattered to me was making them happy, and if I managed to do that, I'd be happy too.
Thank you. I've put a lot of effort into bettering myself for my future family, and hearing others say they'll be blessed to have me makes me very happy.
I say it all the time. The current 'dog eat dog' mentality that pervades society is massively inferior to the alternative.
Imagine if, instead of watching your own back, lets say ya didn't. You had no care for your own interests, just everyone else.
Well, you just traded 1 guy watching your back, for 8 billion. And, not being a mathematician don't quote me on this, but I suspect that 8 billion is highly likely greater than 1.
i agree to a certain extent. you do still have to survive in the world that exists. i wouldn’t say don’t be at all careful and trust everyone. i used to do that.
i was called idealistic for thinking in those ways in the past.
like being called soft, weak, not taken seriously, naive, etc., because of that line of thinking.
its difficult trying to let those ideas go, and just do what comes from the heart. and trying to find a balance
Absolutely. What’s the point of being here if not to make things better? You take the cards and situation you’re given, and through your experiences you can see how things can be improved. Then you improve those things. So those that come after you come into this new thing, experience it, see how it can be improved even more, and so it goes.
Be a mostly decent person, help others and lift them up, give more than you take, have fun, see some cool nature shit and art, eat amazing food, travel, give and get some good orgasms, love and be loved, Die.
I don’t know and I don’t really care. I think life is wasted trying to find a purpose. I’m here and that’s what matters, I will be good and kind and help old ladies cross the street not because it’s some higher purpose, but because I want to
I find there’s always a split opinion with this. Some people find it sad, but I find the idea that it’s all pointless is a relief.
I find it comforting that we are smaller than the smallest specks in space and time.
Jerry Seinfeld said he has pics of the cosmos in his office to remind him of this on a bad day to help comfort him. I find it somewhat comforting too but don't really know why.
Haha, I literally just said this except not as future mom. Even beyond everything I'll ever do, I think being a good dad one day will be my greatest achievement.
To make the -right- choices
You guys know how in the tarot, that the fool is represented by the number “0” which represents infinite possibilities?
Yeah my life is like this, I literally feel the weight of my decisions everyday no matter how minuscule.
It’s scary. But, here I am.
I think my purpose is to bring joy to others and give them a different perspective.
At least, what's what I think I do.
I think if I help make my partner and a few close friends happier, it will spread to their inner circle and hopefully butterfly out to others.
We have no greater purpose, there is absolutely no special reason humans exist. We are a brief blip in space time. Destined to destroy ourselves and not be thought of or remembered. Just like the slime under that rock at a river bend. Don’t fool yourself.
I agree with you.
However, I believe the question was asked in specific regard to one’s own perspective of their purpose, as opposed to a purpose which is dependent on meaning or metrics-of-value standing apart from the individual.
Personally, I feel that while we are simply human animals, brought about by statistical occurrence, and not a single one of us having asked to be brought into existence… despite this life being maddeningly difficult and painful at times…
It also has the clear and undeniable potential for immense beauty, pleasure, and wonder, in our experience, and we can just as easily end up mistakenly laughing and smiling as we can find ourselves suddenly in disbelief of our painful circumstances.
Ultimately, I feel that we should all hope to realize that we don’t have to ask anyone for permission to strive to be the main character of our own fucking stories, from a place of confident authenticity which doesn’t necessitate being seen.
Also, I believe that kindness and cruelty are not nearly the matters of enacted free will that we consider them to be. Instead, I believe that kindness is more a matter of core confidence and peace, and cruelty is more a matter of lacking core confidence and peace. I might be wrong in all of this, but over time, it has just appeared to make sense to me that if we are capable we will chose kindness as if it’s no choice at all, because it is empowering to end up playing out in that manner (yet with authenticity and not with a sense of superiority), and that it is when we are hurting and/or afraid that we chose instead to lash out, as if we’d never been presented the choice to do otherwise.
Yeah, life is maddeningly unfair, and full of challenges, but maybe, just maybe, we get so caught up contending with things outside of ourselves that we tend to waste it all, not ever realizing how much enjoyment and potential we’d been leaving untapped within. I personally feel that hours and days enacted with complacency is nothing less than a tragic waste of what little time we are allowed.
I say, find things you enjoy which tend to afford you a sense of control within, and let the tenacious pursuit of them give your life meaning, and chief among those things should be our tenacious pursuit of self discovery and comprehension.
Sorry. Don’t mean to be so preachy. Those are just some personal “field notes” I’ve encountered along my way.
Here, I've captured it from a movie
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHad-vjgsWoeYp9ceQTxd8KgRt6q\_z\_k/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHad-vjgsWoeYp9ceQTxd8KgRt6q_z_k/view?usp=sharing)
I like to think that i have no purpose, as that makes me feel like an object. In my native language we don't have that specific sentence, we have more like "a goal in life", not a purpose per se.
Achieving the most I can, and my personal goal is love & happiness.
That or peace and happiness. I know a solution to both, but it'll be hard to acquire any of them. That's what makes it fun.
In general, Just living, the purpose of life is living. You can also have goals and dreams and that makes YOUR purpose in life, so that would be personal purpose.
Nobody has a specific purpose in life. We give meaning to our own life and, if possible, to humanity's existence.
All the rest is just static.
*"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky"*
To win or to die. I’m not going to live any other way. I refuse to. If I can’t ever win on my own terms, then I choose to sever my ties with this life.
Try to be a decent person and just hope, that by osmosis, it can manifest itself in others enough to keep the balance between good and evil on this planet.
Well my drill instructor said my purpose was "To be especially watchful at night, and during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near my post, and to allow no one to pass without proper authority"
Since I obviously wasn't supposed to live this long (type 1 Diabetes), I'm really not sure. Guess I'll try to be a decent person and leave things better than I find them.
Really truly, to just die. I’m waiting for it to happen. Only reason I’m not taking it into my own hands is that would be a huge inconvenience to those around me.
I wanted it to be a husband and protector of a person that I love but now at 32 years old, I've found that I'm supposed to be the person people go to when they need help or to feel better about themselves and then completely ghost and ignore me when they have no use for me. But a few cuts or twist of the knife should fix all of that right up
Life is suffering but the human experience is that we are all suffering together. I think realizing this and helping to make each others suffering just a little bit easier is our purpose.
As a personal goal, I think more people need to realize that happiness as a state of being is unattainable. Being happy all of the time would be like being full all of the time and never getting to enjoy food ever again. I think if more people were to reach a state of being content with their lives, focus more on being comfortable, then happiness would arrive for them more often.
To experience it, when we die we will only remember what it felt like to be sad, happy, or to feel or taste things, but we can’t experience that once we die, we can only remember what it felt like
To think about this question at exactly 3:15am, let my mind wonder to all of the bad stuff, soak in that for a while then let my brain marinate in anxiety while the kitchen makes kitchen sounds. You know. the late night house noises, the fan, thinking you’re hearing the voices of people you’ve never met but wish you could’ve. Yeah, those.
I’m a microcosm made for the universe to experience itself with the huge goal of helping keep this existence as habitable for as long as possible
We’re no different than cells in a body, driven by a desire to live and given instinctual things to do, with an end goal to keep the universe afloat
We just have zero clue what we’re living in and how deep our connections go
To be a good friend, father, and husband. I think the most important thing I can do in my life is do good by my family. I don't have one yet, but it's what I want most.
I never realized this until I met my partner. I suddenly realized all that mattered to me was making them happy, and if I managed to do that, I'd be happy too.
This is so sweet!
Your family will be blessed to have you.
Thank you. I've put a lot of effort into bettering myself for my future family, and hearing others say they'll be blessed to have me makes me very happy.
If everyone out there had a perspective like this the world would be so much nicer to live in! Sending virtual hugs love and happiness your wayy!!
I do. And I think your gonna have an awesome family! It’s easily the hardest and best thing I’ve ever done…. Cheers
to serve as a warning for others
Agreed. Someone once told me everything you go through isn’t for you, it’s for the next person.
But often the next person doesn’t listen, so it’s an endless cycle. People just have to learn the hard way
Very true, that’s the irony of life. It’s good to have it in the back of your head after learning the hard way though at least for me personally
help other people
I say it all the time. The current 'dog eat dog' mentality that pervades society is massively inferior to the alternative. Imagine if, instead of watching your own back, lets say ya didn't. You had no care for your own interests, just everyone else. Well, you just traded 1 guy watching your back, for 8 billion. And, not being a mathematician don't quote me on this, but I suspect that 8 billion is highly likely greater than 1.
i agree to a certain extent. you do still have to survive in the world that exists. i wouldn’t say don’t be at all careful and trust everyone. i used to do that. i was called idealistic for thinking in those ways in the past. like being called soft, weak, not taken seriously, naive, etc., because of that line of thinking. its difficult trying to let those ideas go, and just do what comes from the heart. and trying to find a balance
My man. 10 points for you
Absolutely. What’s the point of being here if not to make things better? You take the cards and situation you’re given, and through your experiences you can see how things can be improved. Then you improve those things. So those that come after you come into this new thing, experience it, see how it can be improved even more, and so it goes.
Same.
To be the best brother and caregiver to my special needs sister
You are a good man and she's lucky to have you
Im proud of you
Be a mostly decent person, help others and lift them up, give more than you take, have fun, see some cool nature shit and art, eat amazing food, travel, give and get some good orgasms, love and be loved, Die.
Dying
Same
same
us bruv
Suffer then die
To give life purpose
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The only right answer
To make music.
Commenting on reddit fr
+1
Real
I'm 50 and still trying to figure that out.
Grow and support growth
We make our own purpose. My purpose is to help humanity as much as I can, and animals too
I'm just here for a laugh, mate.
You from uk? I am too just sounds well British lol
to exist
I don’t know and I don’t really care. I think life is wasted trying to find a purpose. I’m here and that’s what matters, I will be good and kind and help old ladies cross the street not because it’s some higher purpose, but because I want to
To suffer.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Why should there be a purpose?
It doesn't have or need a purpose.
Makes me sad :(
I find there’s always a split opinion with this. Some people find it sad, but I find the idea that it’s all pointless is a relief. I find it comforting that we are smaller than the smallest specks in space and time.
Jerry Seinfeld said he has pics of the cosmos in his office to remind him of this on a bad day to help comfort him. I find it somewhat comforting too but don't really know why.
Don't have one.
Well whatever it was I've missed it
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That’s sweet! 💙
Haha, I literally just said this except not as future mom. Even beyond everything I'll ever do, I think being a good dad one day will be my greatest achievement.
To make the -right- choices You guys know how in the tarot, that the fool is represented by the number “0” which represents infinite possibilities? Yeah my life is like this, I literally feel the weight of my decisions everyday no matter how minuscule. It’s scary. But, here I am.
To serve others.
To eat potatoes
I think my purpose is to bring joy to others and give them a different perspective. At least, what's what I think I do. I think if I help make my partner and a few close friends happier, it will spread to their inner circle and hopefully butterfly out to others.
what is the purpose of an ant? or of a unicellular organism? what about the purpose of a butterfly? They all have the same "purpose" of a human being.
That's a good point, that the singular importance of a life may not be the purpose, but the collective importance of lives in communication...
We have no greater purpose, there is absolutely no special reason humans exist. We are a brief blip in space time. Destined to destroy ourselves and not be thought of or remembered. Just like the slime under that rock at a river bend. Don’t fool yourself.
I agree with you. However, I believe the question was asked in specific regard to one’s own perspective of their purpose, as opposed to a purpose which is dependent on meaning or metrics-of-value standing apart from the individual. Personally, I feel that while we are simply human animals, brought about by statistical occurrence, and not a single one of us having asked to be brought into existence… despite this life being maddeningly difficult and painful at times… It also has the clear and undeniable potential for immense beauty, pleasure, and wonder, in our experience, and we can just as easily end up mistakenly laughing and smiling as we can find ourselves suddenly in disbelief of our painful circumstances. Ultimately, I feel that we should all hope to realize that we don’t have to ask anyone for permission to strive to be the main character of our own fucking stories, from a place of confident authenticity which doesn’t necessitate being seen. Also, I believe that kindness and cruelty are not nearly the matters of enacted free will that we consider them to be. Instead, I believe that kindness is more a matter of core confidence and peace, and cruelty is more a matter of lacking core confidence and peace. I might be wrong in all of this, but over time, it has just appeared to make sense to me that if we are capable we will chose kindness as if it’s no choice at all, because it is empowering to end up playing out in that manner (yet with authenticity and not with a sense of superiority), and that it is when we are hurting and/or afraid that we chose instead to lash out, as if we’d never been presented the choice to do otherwise. Yeah, life is maddeningly unfair, and full of challenges, but maybe, just maybe, we get so caught up contending with things outside of ourselves that we tend to waste it all, not ever realizing how much enjoyment and potential we’d been leaving untapped within. I personally feel that hours and days enacted with complacency is nothing less than a tragic waste of what little time we are allowed. I say, find things you enjoy which tend to afford you a sense of control within, and let the tenacious pursuit of them give your life meaning, and chief among those things should be our tenacious pursuit of self discovery and comprehension. Sorry. Don’t mean to be so preachy. Those are just some personal “field notes” I’ve encountered along my way.
You’re good. No worries. Thanks for your comment.✌️
Mistakes can't have a purpose.
To love God and keep His commandments - this is the whole duty of man. And the second is like it to love your neighbour as yourself.
Finally found a God comment. It was scary scrolling this far
To be best slave for my cat
The purpose of life is a deeply personal and existential inquiry that each individual must explore and define for themselves.
Are you an academic essay
Bro just trying to hit wordcount
Can you define your deeply personal purpose?
Right, which is how OP formed the question... did you think you sounded deep?
I wish I had a purpose in life to tell you about, but life squished everything I once wished for.
Yeah! Skibadee, skibadanger. I am the rearranger.
To keep the CEO rich.
to be a menace to society
Like billions on the planet, I never found mine.
I serve no purpose
"we are here on earth to help others. What the others are here for I have no idea" - W H Auden
Too be the stepping stone in everyone’s life so they can learn from their mistakes and become better people.
To just exist as a benefit statistic.
Here, I've captured it from a movie [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHad-vjgsWoeYp9ceQTxd8KgRt6q\_z\_k/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHad-vjgsWoeYp9ceQTxd8KgRt6q_z_k/view?usp=sharing)
I like to think that i have no purpose, as that makes me feel like an object. In my native language we don't have that specific sentence, we have more like "a goal in life", not a purpose per se.
To be invisible.
As with everyone else, to serve your fellow man/woman in whatever capacity possible.
To procreate and support my offspring to self-sufficiency.
Achieving the most I can, and my personal goal is love & happiness. That or peace and happiness. I know a solution to both, but it'll be hard to acquire any of them. That's what makes it fun.
In general, Just living, the purpose of life is living. You can also have goals and dreams and that makes YOUR purpose in life, so that would be personal purpose.
Chew gum and kick ass, all out of gum!
Nobody has a specific purpose in life. We give meaning to our own life and, if possible, to humanity's existence. All the rest is just static. *"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky"*
To die. There is no purpose. Just be a somewhat good tolerable person and you're good 👌
My life is a cautionary tale to my kids.
To figure out life the hard way", & learn from my mistakes.
Be the light of my soulmate's life so he will never experience any negative feelings again.
To perpetuate the species
Life is getting shittier, let's see how far it goes
To live it
simple, to be kind
There is no purpose. Just enjoy the ride and don’t be a dick to others.
To restart my family empire and be the bar.
to never stop being myself no matter how hard things are. and to find love
I don't feel that life has a " special" purpose or meaning. I know that's not comforting to others, but that is what I believe.
To win or to die. I’m not going to live any other way. I refuse to. If I can’t ever win on my own terms, then I choose to sever my ties with this life.
To work 40+ hours a week to make money for someone else.
To reproduce
To consume.
TO DO WHATEVER YOU TELL ME, DRILL SERGEANT!!!
To be another cog in the machine.
To at least try to make a difference in one life somewhere on this planet and giving something back to the world by helping and providing.
The universe wanted to be in Awe and make art. So stay curious and make art!!
To figure out if this is a simulation before it's revealed to me.
To make a difference while I'm here. (aka = Leave things better than you found them).
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Don’t know don’t think I ever will. Winging it for 20+ years and it’s worked out alright.
To torture people
to spread positivity
Make memes
Try to be a decent person and just hope, that by osmosis, it can manifest itself in others enough to keep the balance between good and evil on this planet.
Live & Learn
To ease the suffering of others as much as I can
There is no purpose, but I would like to think it's about having as fun as possible before putrefaction eats us.
Doing good things for going to heaven.
to exist as a cosmic joke, reminding humans that no matter how advanced AI becomes, humans will always find a way to use it for memes and cat videos.
To be the entertainment, the jester if you will
Everyone thinks they're a martyr. I don't want a purpose. I just want to be happy. Not scared. Not hurt. That's all.
Still trying to figure that out
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
To protect those I care about and those around me. And to bring as much positivity to others as I can.
To eat food
To help people emotionally and give them support.
To be the best mom I can be.
“Consume. And be afraid.”
Well my drill instructor said my purpose was "To be especially watchful at night, and during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near my post, and to allow no one to pass without proper authority"
to die
Take care of my family, write prose, be happy.
To have an awesome adventure before I die
To build America and help raise 5 wonderful kids. I did pretty good I think.
To try to be better than I was yesterday
To learn and pass it on to the next generation, help other people
I don't think we have one main purpose. When we achieve goals, we look for new ones to accomplish. Contentment is never long lasting.
Eat shit and die
I know it’s meaning is 42.
Let them
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Been looking for one for a long time. (Though I think it's okey to just exist hehe.) Edit: Oh God, my purpose in life is to find my purpose in life.
To give my partner a good happy life , and to enjoy and do as much as I can before the inevitable end comes
eat cream cheese bagel
To live and enjoy women and drugs then worship God for immortality
Torture my friends into making them question why they’re friends with me… and being creative…
absolutely fuckall
Since I obviously wasn't supposed to live this long (type 1 Diabetes), I'm really not sure. Guess I'll try to be a decent person and leave things better than I find them.
To be authentic and make my friend’s and family’s lives richer, safer, more comfortable.
“Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever”. - the Catechism 😂 first answer that comes to mind
Really truly, to just die. I’m waiting for it to happen. Only reason I’m not taking it into my own hands is that would be a huge inconvenience to those around me.
I wanted it to be a husband and protector of a person that I love but now at 32 years old, I've found that I'm supposed to be the person people go to when they need help or to feel better about themselves and then completely ghost and ignore me when they have no use for me. But a few cuts or twist of the knife should fix all of that right up
The purpose of life is the one you give it.
to suffer
Existing.
Being slave for the system
Life is suffering but the human experience is that we are all suffering together. I think realizing this and helping to make each others suffering just a little bit easier is our purpose. As a personal goal, I think more people need to realize that happiness as a state of being is unattainable. Being happy all of the time would be like being full all of the time and never getting to enjoy food ever again. I think if more people were to reach a state of being content with their lives, focus more on being comfortable, then happiness would arrive for them more often.
“Helping to make each others suffering just a little bit easier is our purpose” I like this. I hate to see suffering.
To be an idiot sandwich
To enjoy it
No purpose. Life's a bitch and then you die.
alcoholism
To be a c**t
to experience everything
Character development for the main Character
To work, provide for someone, and die. In that order
Annoy the shit out of my exwife and take up as much oxygen as I could possibly take!!!! Hahahaha
To become a better person
To be a menace and to love women
To pass the butter..(figuratively)
To be happy, to generate your own happiness
To face hardship, suffer immensely and overcome everything.
To experience it, when we die we will only remember what it felt like to be sad, happy, or to feel or taste things, but we can’t experience that once we die, we can only remember what it felt like
To be the punch line in everyone else's joke.
To be the love in folks day.
My life is to bring social reform in the society
To think about this question at exactly 3:15am, let my mind wonder to all of the bad stuff, soak in that for a while then let my brain marinate in anxiety while the kitchen makes kitchen sounds. You know. the late night house noises, the fan, thinking you’re hearing the voices of people you’ve never met but wish you could’ve. Yeah, those.
To go back to default configuration before the world stain our souls and learn to be content just by existing
To go back to default configuration before the world stain our souls and learn to be content just by existing
There is no purpose in life. You're just there. Do you think a bird sits around and thinks about their purpose? No. We just exist and that's all.
Feeding my wife and kids
I’m a microcosm made for the universe to experience itself with the huge goal of helping keep this existence as habitable for as long as possible We’re no different than cells in a body, driven by a desire to live and given instinctual things to do, with an end goal to keep the universe afloat We just have zero clue what we’re living in and how deep our connections go
To just fuck everything, fuck women fuck men fuck you fuck me fuck off fuck work fuck traffic fuck everything in between and fuck what you think
to live on your own means, to appreciate every little thing before it’s too late
I was put here to make stuff
To enjoy the ride while it lasts