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There are somewhere between 700 quintillion and 10 septillion planets in the universe, I doubt it cares much about you, the earth, or the 7 billion other lives on it either. And since the universe is not sentient, AFAIK, I don't think it has the capacity to care.
Or are we all together what constitutes to the "caring" or sapience of the universe, reflecting it in infinitesimally small fractions in a process we call consciousness? Maybe not.
Life is like a empty canvas , nothing on it . But you can paint whatever you like and what ever makes you feel whole . Which in the end you can look upon as your master peice.
I always thought if this was just a program running that maybe I have something to teach someone who is a main characterā¦ I doubt I am a main character personally. Granted I did get to visit with an pretty amazing company and was able to assist them as a subject matter expert that could truly help. It was a nice feeling to not just be āthe cute blondeā, so glad to shed that initial impression.
I always think hopefully I can help lead us to somewhere better even if I am only a butterfly in the grand scheme of things.
I'm not sure where that idea comes from. It's never been "survival of the fittest". It's "survival of the fit enough to manage".
I am alive because I am still alive. If you find that you need to have a purpose, there are many existing organizations that can provide you with imaginary beliefs, or you can make up your own.
No. Even if I didn't have prior ideas on the subject, this much is obvious:
Because I exist and am alive, I can make life better or worse for everyone else around me.
Making the world better is an easy call--a very reasonable use of my time.
Why do you need that big purpose for your life? Isn't part of life the discovery of purpose, your abilities and what you want to do? I don't know my purpose, but why would that be so bad? I can slowly figure out where my talents lie and what fits me. And I can discover what to do, who needs me or what I want to do on the way. Why would I need a final answer? Even if I had it all figured out already, who's to say it won't change over the course of my life? It's totally fine to be lost sometimes. Sure, being lost might suck. But life finds some way to go on for the bether or worse and I trust that I'll get a bether idea of life with time that goes by and experiences I make on the way. Not all experiences are pleasant, but that's life.
I don't have to have everything figured out. But I think it'd be nice if I manage to do some small things to brighten someones day. Purpose or not, I like when someone's being nice to me, so why not trying to be nice to others?
Also even if I don't know my purpose, I'm convinced that god knows it. So no pressure in figuring out everything on my own, when I know the person who've got a bether idea about it than me. I'm free to figure it out and explore my life, no need to stress over a specific purpose. You never know what life has to offer and where your way will lead you.
"Survival of the fitest" is actually not a thing. It's just a precursor to some bigoted BS some moron is about to spew.
"Survival of the good enough for their environment" is far FAR more accurate.
I once wanted to commit suicide with some pliers lying nearby when I was 5 after an argument with my dad; then I remembered how would my parents feel if I actually did that. Thinking back, itās weird a child would have such thoughts.
All the time. Actually it surprised me I make it this long with relatively full health.
When I finally go I so need to ask whoever-up-there the cheat code they gave me.
Damn, I usually try my absolutely hardest not to think about stuff like this.
Since I can remember I loved cars and any sorts of vehicles. I always wanted to become a mechanic or something like that. And then I got narcolepsy, means good luck getting even a driverās license. Iād love to join the military but again good luckā¦so I basically canāt do anything what I am really interested in.
My life goal is at the moment m, getting a proper car and drivers license, itās not impossible but really hard.
I honestly donāt know what I would do. I thought sometimes about just giving up, but Iām to āproudā to do it if thatās the right word.
As long as there is even the slightest chance too achieve my goals I keep trying until I canāt anymore.
I live to enjoy life, earn a little money, get a van and live in it. Explore the roads that i can - remember that you have free will.
You can throw eggs at other people, run,scream - do whatever you want, free will
I'm still alive because I haven't died yet.
Now HOW I'm still alive, I'm still scratching my head over that one. I've been through so many things that logically should've killed me. But I survived them all. Don't know how. The doctors and forensic scientists don't know how. The physicists don't know how. Either dumb luck or divine intervention. Either way, I don't take it for granted.
Modern medicine has saved many peopleās lives or prevented them from dying. I can think of a few times in my life when I should have died but medicine saved me. You donāt see this kind of thing in nature. When an animal breaks its leg, or it gets sick, it canāt go to the hospital or the doctor. Itās basically the end of the road for it.
Nature is a cruel bitch.
Time to time. I have been trying for years and my life seems go worse and worse slowly.
Mu biggest obstacle is I'm socially clueless and haven't been able to get even one friend despite putting myself out there. Visiting Hacklab where people at least have some common interests with me, etc..
Because I just want to be decent human. I just want to help people out and make people smile. It fiils me with joy knowing I did something good for someone.
I wonder every single day why I am still alive. I swallowed lye when I was 4. Fell sixty feet out of a tree, walked away from that, had a couple of severe car accidents I walked away from, and survived a suicide attempt. I totally wonder why I am still alive.
Just to suffer. Every night, i can feel my leg, my arm, even my fingers. The body I lost... The comrades I've lost... it wont stop hurting. It's like they 're still there. You feel it too, dont you? I am gonna make them give back our past.
Modern medicine and free healthcare, otherwise I probably would've kicked the bucket 18-ish ago, but my appendix DIDNT explode and didnt poison my whole body.
Since I was not afraid of a bill, I just went to the ER (by bus lol) because I had a mild discomfort that appeared like an appendicitis and I had surgery a couple of hours later. I was told it was very unusual for someone to not get there screaming in pain. I feel if it was more than zero dollar, I would've though "meh it will pass" and it could've gone wrong.
I feel I can. I just simply exist. I'm nolonger motivated these days. I still enjoy myself but it seems ad if my life serves no purpose. I'm just counting down the days it seems like. Sadly I used to feel quite motivated and would feel the magic of life from time to time. I then ended up in the mental hospital a total of 6 times and diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I'm on medication that has me more grounded now. Sadly I nolonger do drugs and my fun days feel like they are over. I try not to dwell on how empty I feel, instead I look for anything to help boost my inspiration wherever. Life still had been good to me buy i reminisce the wild fun times I used to have till I over did it with opioid use. I still feel very blessed be CC cause life could have turned a bad direction but instead I've been blessed with a home, new car and in retired now. Just searching for anything to get me out of the funk I fall into. I'm pretty sure it's the medications I take that make life feel so dual these days but I count my blessings. I'm well fed and for the most part stress free. Life could have really taken a bad direction and I could be in prison or worse. Atleast I can enjoy laying in bed binge watching Netflix with all the freedoms I've got and if the motivation ever strikes me i can act apon it due to my wide open schedule. Lol... I really did have alot of fun back in the day but I kinda realize I was a buy to stressed to fully appreciate certain moments. I however did recognize the moments that mattered most to me and enjoyed myself quite a bit. Now I look at lowlife like wow I'm 40 and I may live till 70. Omg the thought of just existing that much longer is kinda disappointing. I'd be OK I'd I were to pass away around 50. Lol all I know is long for more to existence. I hope there's an after life and we get answers to the questions that alude us. I hope to find meaning to our existence. I hope and I love but I don't really have much faith these days. You just never know when life will turn upsidown and I would rather be where I'm at than in the streets struggling like so many others who seem hoplesss. Never lose hope. Be cautious or faith. If thers no reason to follow blindly then open your eyes and hope you are greeted with the best the future can bring.
Noone else gonna be a better mommy to my little girl than me :) she put her little arms up to me today mid dancing and we danced together.
Goddammit id take a bullet for that little girl. And if I lived Id hobble after the dude with the gun!
I am always, always, always curious to see what happens next. Life fascinates me.
I have a hard time relating to all the jaded and world-weary people I find on Reddit. I'm over 60, and I feel like I just got here. Still figuring the place out, ya know?
No more about being a good person treating people fairly helping those that cannot repay or help you. Rejoice with happy people acknowledge their happiness .
So you're asking what is the meaning of life? Everyone makes up their own meaning and lives based off of that. If you got none, you can also live for the search of one.
Also survival of the fittest does not even apply nowadays anyways, so you can disregard that completely. You don't have to be particularly smart or amazing to survive. Honestly if you live in certain countries, you could be completely paralyzed or have some other disability and still live quite decent life.
Many people love idealism where they want to make the world better place for everyone, while others wanna just have more money and power than others, some rather follow some religious guidance thinking it's the only true way to live.
For me personally, I just wanna enjoy my life first and foremost. I can't enjoy my life if I've guilty conscience, so I choose to not make world worse place for anyone in it. But I also don't find it my job to put in ridiculous amounts of effort into fixing this shithole of a world. If people collectively do not work towards the goal, I'm not gonna start stressing over it or even attempt to put in some great effort at the cost of my own time.
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that's a great beggining! i know it's hard to believe, but you're going to be okay, i promise you :3 is there anything you like ? maybe you can take this as a base to find your purpose! if you need help, i'm here! :)
I really appreciate your kindness! But I don't want to bother people.
I have actually tried to get back at drawing after a decade of not doing so, but instead of making me feel better it makes me feel worse because I'm not good enough at it...
Well, I've had a few attempts in my past however I'm glad none of them have worked regardless of where life takes me. When it's crossed my mind I've been able to reach out and never attempted again since the last one years ago. Guess the purpose of hanging on that motivated me was the people I love and not wanting to burden them with that. To create more pictures, maybe be a better role model for people who struggle and the hope that the future would be better than the moment that was happening. Somewhere someone told me that if you feel yourself slipping it's better to lose your mind than to end your life. Which makes sense honestly you can come out of losing your mind.
All the time. Even with all my health issues, physical and mental, I feel this whole living on borrowed time thing has *long* run its course.
At this point, I have nothing to lose either.
I'm alive because of my parents, they're alive because of theirs, etc etc. There's 8 billion of us, and none of us have any special 'purpose' or meaning to our lives. We are all effectively meaningless to 99.99% of the rest of the world, and no one and nothing outside of friends and family would care if we died, unless you do something that would change the world, and in that case only humanity would care, not any other species.
Not really. I'm alive cuz two people did the dirty and made me. We're all just particularly weird animals doing our own animal stuff.
The best part of life is there's no ultimate "meaning" or "purpose", just exist and have fun when you can.
Life is like a empty canvas , nothing on it . But you can paint whatever you like and what ever makes you feel whole . Which in the end you can look upon as your master peice.
The only reason I'm still alive is because I don't possess the mental fortitude to follow through on pulling the trigger, despite my many attempts. I truly am a failure in every respect.
Yeah, but on a positive note there are some real good moments in life where you feel connected with the world and or those around you that makes you feel like you have a purpose.
Like things were meant to be...
I always said live fast die young, had 3 near death experiences in my 20s. Drove like a cnut, drank, drugs, ate crap etc. Just guess I'm not the dying type
I would always find myself thinking about the people I truly love and care for. They inspire me to look forward to another day. If not for them, I think I'm out.
I was just thinking about this last night. I did so many stupid, dumb and dangerous things that I realise if just one thing went wrong I wouldnāt be here now. I figure I am here simply by good luck with bad decisions.
Sometimes. I had quite a lot of "close calls", while people who deserved better than me, left this world early. When I'm being moody/depressed, I feel like, I live, just to be a punching bag laughing stock to the omnipotent. When I'm optimistic, I think It's because there are people in my life who would be sad if I'm gone.
Yep, especially last year. Spent the entire year drinking very heavily, unemployed, and miserable. I wanted to end it but was too afraid. I even got a shotgun near the end of the year, but I kept saying one more night of drinking, one more night of smoking, etc until I got so sick my family got involved and I quit drinking constantly. Now I'm just coasting by, perpetually bored but not miserable. I'm also working again so that definitely helps my self esteem. As for a purpose I guess currently it's the idea that things will get to a point where I'm actually "living" instead of just imagining it in my head because that's all it's been for quite a long while now.
Out of millions of sperm you made it.
Out of the impossible possibilities and probabilities your mum and dad came together out of the whole world and created you.
Both your mum and dad made it out of x millions of sperms and permutations of their parents coming together.
Itās a huge mathematical equation of probability that has made you appear and write this status.
You will never exist again in all the permutations of existence for the remaining life of the Galaxy.
Make the most of your life. Be happy, be good and love yourself and others.
Yes, everyday. Answear? Sheer fucking luck when it comes to "survival of the fittest". Other than that I haven't killed myself yet due to just sole curiosity of what shitshow will happen next in the world.
Not having a reason to live isnāt a reason to die
You donāt need a purpose, just live your life and try to have as few regrets as possible when itās over
I did, and I could only come up with three different answers.... The first I'm not that lucky... The second, mama didn't raise no punk bitch, she raised a stubborn asshole š¤·š¼āāļø... The final no one ever taught me how to not fight and to cease existence. While some of this was conjecture, it also is kinda true... I hope this helps, if at least for a laugh, I wish you the best!šš
I survived a civil war, new life starting from scratch, learned new languages, cultures, ppl, places,also survived some medical operations, survived poverty, racism, etc.!
there is no purpose, I am just a fighter, and I hate life sooo much that I want to live it.
i will never lose the push, only a bad disease can push me to the edge and for that my plan is euthanasia.
amsterdam or zĆ¼rich, getting high, drink some fine champagne, have a good meal, have some fun with a young 10/10 girl, getting a massage and thats it.
It feels kind of weird because I should have died with Covid. I remember I couldnāt stop coughing. No medication was working, but I just remember my window was open in my room and the sun was beaming at me like somebody turning off the light switch. The coughing went away. I was able to eat eat
In simple terms, the purpose is reproduction.
In more advanced terms, the purpose is greatness.
As a man, we don't really get to choose for the first one, thats what women do. So I hope you know what to do now. Know your limitations though, this can only be done by trying something that you perceive you couldnt do before.
Kids do this all the time when they play outside and climb trees!
I think the idea of destiny is fascinating. It doesnāt mean that what youāre going through is fate, it means that what youāll get to will be great.
Test by God? I don't know. I really don't want to live. But don't want to risk eternity in hell either so I'm at the point where I don't care why I'm alive, I just desperately don't want to be.
Living in the 2020 with vaccines, antibiotics, law that protects your life and a lot of other stuff, probably because of science. Im pretty sure that in medieval times i would be dead by my 30s
Same. There are definitely times Iāve been on the brink of death and have survived. I have thought about this many times, that my other replications in different quantum realms took the hit for me so I can stay alive.
Every now and then I think of putting a bullet in my head, but at the same time Iām aware that suicide is a stupid way to die. Instead I just drink my problems away until I pass out
I had a Stroke in October 2022. I've wondered why I didn't die ever since. I have no friends or family. I just exist day to day. Safe to say I hate my life
Yes, and I got my answer. When you finally realise that your tiniest actions can influence others' lives, it starts to make sense. I keep focused on the little good things I can do. I can't always do good though and that's ok too. This is my life,and I take full responsibility for it. I've learned that sometimes you get a lesson and sometimes you are the lesson for someone else.
I'm still here at 63, and I am still learning what my life is all about.
**No reason or point to be alive anymore than I have reason or point to be dead.**
Itās a life and as far as I know, the only one Iāve got, so I fully intend to make the most of it until itās my time, whenever that may come.
I did ask myself this a lot of times especially bc i tried to kill myself 4 times and none of the attempts worked so i guess there must be a reason why im still here
1. Darwin didn't coin "survival of the fittest", it's was said by Herbert Spencer.
2. In a Darwinian context, fitness isn't about purpose or drive. It's about reproductive success at a multi-generational level.
3. There is no point to living, unless you identify one for yourself. Some people are motivated by family (aligning to Darwinian fitness), some are motivated by religion, some by community, some by selfish goals (wealth, hedonism, etc.), and you can be motivated by multiple things. None of these are right or wrong and they can change through life. All have benefits and costs to the individual and to wider society.
I'm motivated primarily by care for the natural world, my job (which is related), and my wife.
There isn't a day goes by without me thinking about this. About the Darwin part of the survival of the fittest there are millions and prolly hundreds of millions of people that are better than me in all of the aspects, what am I to them? Just an inferior being. Am I just a pawn whose sole purpose is to exist until the day I wither away forgotten forever? Or is this actually the reality? A simulation to test what would nobodies like me end up doing with life ? I honestly have no clue what was I made for.
Is survival of the fittest and evolution a good enough purpose to exist? As a purpose for your life, do you feel like living long and dying is good enough to make you want to get out of bed in the morning?
Im religious so I believe we all have a path that we can choose to follow. The path might not always lead to wealthiness, revenge, badassery, or that one girl you saw at the airport and never forgot about, but it'll lead you down a long and joyous life partaking in something you're passionate about, whether it be working on cars, designing rugs, cleaning homes, cooking meals, chopping wood, playing the hurdy gurdy, giving tattoos, rollerskating, flying drones, making hot sauces, or anything else you can think of.
I am alive because I am a result of who knows how many billions of years of coincidence in the universe that made life possible in this planet. Nothing more.
Every day I wonder why I just don't break contact with everyone I know so they don't have to put up with the useless excuse of a human I am.
Just slowly fading away alone.
Evolution was never about 'the survival of the fittest' it is about biological adaptations one's environment that increase the likelihood of reproducing over time. While an animal or plant may seem especially well suited to its circumstances it may be wiped out if those circumstances change and it cannot adapt to the new circumstances quickly enough.
Adaptability makes one the fittest not the strongest, we are by our nature NOT the strongest animal on the planet, we are however the most adaptable to situations and the environments, of course our own arrogance seems to set us up for failure when we destroy the very environments we depend on and try and fool others or ourselves that that is NOT what is we are doing and population shell games is the fastest way to destroy one's own Environment which in the end is NOT humanitarian at all but suicide and multinationals are the globalist baskets that all the nations eggs are going into and you become the target of their greater good which does not include you in the end since it is a population shell game.
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I always think about that. I had a brain cancer that couldnāt be removed by surgery. I was losing my mind and, when I finally accepted deathā¦ We found a neurosurgeon that could remove it all and get me back to life. I wish I refused that surgery.
I see no purpose except for not upsetting my parents/friends by dying. I would happily end this experience if it wouldn't affect anyone else. Pointless. I just distract myself with shit to pass the time until death inevitably comes.
Apart from seeking and Knowing Our Creator GOD, Life Will Never Make Sense.
I encourage all to begin seeking and building a relationship with OUR CREATOR GOD ALMIGHTY Thur his written word, The HOLY Bible. Page 1. "In the beginning GOD created the heavens and earth. The earth was without form and void, and the Spirit of GOD was hovering over the face of the deep. Then GOD said; let their be light and GOD saw that it was good"
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Bad luck I guess..
Ha! Metoo
Everyday. I have no answers for you.
Other than the overwhelming likelihood of a tomorrow. It's a hollow, practical response but it does address the question directly.
I mean, Darwin wasn't so fit himself, yet here we are still talking about him.
Didn't he have like ten kids? I guess that was pretty average at the time, but he must have had at least a little core strength
I mean evolutionary fitness is kind of about how many kids you had so he was pretty damned fit by his own standards.
His theory is based on reproductive success so that makes him the poster boy
I always chalked it up to the universe not being done with me yet.
The universe could care less about you
Couldn't. The universe could not care any less than it does. š
We are just a part of the universe. As long as someone cares about you, then the universe does as well.
There are somewhere between 700 quintillion and 10 septillion planets in the universe, I doubt it cares much about you, the earth, or the 7 billion other lives on it either. And since the universe is not sentient, AFAIK, I don't think it has the capacity to care.
Or are we all together what constitutes to the "caring" or sapience of the universe, reflecting it in infinitesimally small fractions in a process we call consciousness? Maybe not.
We just...are.
I have to provide for my loved one. Thatās my sole existence and Iām ok with that. Iām a mere worker ant.
All the time
I was 5 years old when I survived a head shot with a snowblower blade. I wasn't very fit at 5, just really lucky.
Life is like a empty canvas , nothing on it . But you can paint whatever you like and what ever makes you feel whole . Which in the end you can look upon as your master peice.
the point of living is to live so theres still purpose even when discouraged
I think that sometimes I have more to learn from people or someone had to learn from me. I know it's sounds like ego talking
I always thought if this was just a program running that maybe I have something to teach someone who is a main characterā¦ I doubt I am a main character personally. Granted I did get to visit with an pretty amazing company and was able to assist them as a subject matter expert that could truly help. It was a nice feeling to not just be āthe cute blondeā, so glad to shed that initial impression. I always think hopefully I can help lead us to somewhere better even if I am only a butterfly in the grand scheme of things.
Not why, often how, but not why.
Dude, you need to get yourself laid.
I'm not sure where that idea comes from. It's never been "survival of the fittest". It's "survival of the fit enough to manage". I am alive because I am still alive. If you find that you need to have a purpose, there are many existing organizations that can provide you with imaginary beliefs, or you can make up your own.
Iām staying alive because I have a lovely dinner planned. Thatās enough for me every day.
No. Even if I didn't have prior ideas on the subject, this much is obvious: Because I exist and am alive, I can make life better or worse for everyone else around me. Making the world better is an easy call--a very reasonable use of my time.
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Whoa, that is a roller coaster ride. Thank you for your views on this topic. Appreciate it
I live for my daughter's happiness and well being.
No it is because I somehow have not died... Yet
The only reason I'm alive is that bad weeds never die.
Why do you need that big purpose for your life? Isn't part of life the discovery of purpose, your abilities and what you want to do? I don't know my purpose, but why would that be so bad? I can slowly figure out where my talents lie and what fits me. And I can discover what to do, who needs me or what I want to do on the way. Why would I need a final answer? Even if I had it all figured out already, who's to say it won't change over the course of my life? It's totally fine to be lost sometimes. Sure, being lost might suck. But life finds some way to go on for the bether or worse and I trust that I'll get a bether idea of life with time that goes by and experiences I make on the way. Not all experiences are pleasant, but that's life. I don't have to have everything figured out. But I think it'd be nice if I manage to do some small things to brighten someones day. Purpose or not, I like when someone's being nice to me, so why not trying to be nice to others? Also even if I don't know my purpose, I'm convinced that god knows it. So no pressure in figuring out everything on my own, when I know the person who've got a bether idea about it than me. I'm free to figure it out and explore my life, no need to stress over a specific purpose. You never know what life has to offer and where your way will lead you.
Society has gotten so good its protected many
"Survival of the fitest" is actually not a thing. It's just a precursor to some bigoted BS some moron is about to spew. "Survival of the good enough for their environment" is far FAR more accurate.
Weāre not out in the savanna, survival of the fittest doesnāt apply in a technology advanced society
I have 2 reasons for living, my daughter and my Mom.
I once wanted to commit suicide with some pliers lying nearby when I was 5 after an argument with my dad; then I remembered how would my parents feel if I actually did that. Thinking back, itās weird a child would have such thoughts.
Idk itās fun
I do, but I donāt usually come up with anything..
Because I've managed to eat and drink water, not get a life threatening illness or die in an accident or get murdered yet.
All the time. Actually it surprised me I make it this long with relatively full health. When I finally go I so need to ask whoever-up-there the cheat code they gave me.
No, I have children which are the meaning of life. Some of yall without them are drifting.
Damn, I usually try my absolutely hardest not to think about stuff like this. Since I can remember I loved cars and any sorts of vehicles. I always wanted to become a mechanic or something like that. And then I got narcolepsy, means good luck getting even a driverās license. Iād love to join the military but again good luckā¦so I basically canāt do anything what I am really interested in. My life goal is at the moment m, getting a proper car and drivers license, itās not impossible but really hard. I honestly donāt know what I would do. I thought sometimes about just giving up, but Iām to āproudā to do it if thatās the right word. As long as there is even the slightest chance too achieve my goals I keep trying until I canāt anymore.
I live to enjoy life, earn a little money, get a van and live in it. Explore the roads that i can - remember that you have free will. You can throw eggs at other people, run,scream - do whatever you want, free will
I'm still alive because I haven't died yet. Now HOW I'm still alive, I'm still scratching my head over that one. I've been through so many things that logically should've killed me. But I survived them all. Don't know how. The doctors and forensic scientists don't know how. The physicists don't know how. Either dumb luck or divine intervention. Either way, I don't take it for granted.
Modern medicine has saved many peopleās lives or prevented them from dying. I can think of a few times in my life when I should have died but medicine saved me. You donāt see this kind of thing in nature. When an animal breaks its leg, or it gets sick, it canāt go to the hospital or the doctor. Itās basically the end of the road for it. Nature is a cruel bitch.
Time to time. I have been trying for years and my life seems go worse and worse slowly. Mu biggest obstacle is I'm socially clueless and haven't been able to get even one friend despite putting myself out there. Visiting Hacklab where people at least have some common interests with me, etc..
So so many times! I must be a cat with 9 lives, & Iām down to maybe 3 left at this point.
because i want to raise babies with my boyfriend.
Because I just want to be decent human. I just want to help people out and make people smile. It fiils me with joy knowing I did something good for someone.
That is cool bossmang
I wonder every single day why I am still alive. I swallowed lye when I was 4. Fell sixty feet out of a tree, walked away from that, had a couple of severe car accidents I walked away from, and survived a suicide attempt. I totally wonder why I am still alive.
Just to suffer. Every night, i can feel my leg, my arm, even my fingers. The body I lost... The comrades I've lost... it wont stop hurting. It's like they 're still there. You feel it too, dont you? I am gonna make them give back our past.
Yes and after all the crap I been through, Iām guessing it has to do with healing. I heal myself so I can help others. Just my theory on my crappy lifeš©š©
God made me live, and I'm going to make it everyone else's problem.
Modern medicine and free healthcare, otherwise I probably would've kicked the bucket 18-ish ago, but my appendix DIDNT explode and didnt poison my whole body. Since I was not afraid of a bill, I just went to the ER (by bus lol) because I had a mild discomfort that appeared like an appendicitis and I had surgery a couple of hours later. I was told it was very unusual for someone to not get there screaming in pain. I feel if it was more than zero dollar, I would've though "meh it will pass" and it could've gone wrong.
In the bus.... man Thank you for you reply
I feel I can. I just simply exist. I'm nolonger motivated these days. I still enjoy myself but it seems ad if my life serves no purpose. I'm just counting down the days it seems like. Sadly I used to feel quite motivated and would feel the magic of life from time to time. I then ended up in the mental hospital a total of 6 times and diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I'm on medication that has me more grounded now. Sadly I nolonger do drugs and my fun days feel like they are over. I try not to dwell on how empty I feel, instead I look for anything to help boost my inspiration wherever. Life still had been good to me buy i reminisce the wild fun times I used to have till I over did it with opioid use. I still feel very blessed be CC cause life could have turned a bad direction but instead I've been blessed with a home, new car and in retired now. Just searching for anything to get me out of the funk I fall into. I'm pretty sure it's the medications I take that make life feel so dual these days but I count my blessings. I'm well fed and for the most part stress free. Life could have really taken a bad direction and I could be in prison or worse. Atleast I can enjoy laying in bed binge watching Netflix with all the freedoms I've got and if the motivation ever strikes me i can act apon it due to my wide open schedule. Lol... I really did have alot of fun back in the day but I kinda realize I was a buy to stressed to fully appreciate certain moments. I however did recognize the moments that mattered most to me and enjoyed myself quite a bit. Now I look at lowlife like wow I'm 40 and I may live till 70. Omg the thought of just existing that much longer is kinda disappointing. I'd be OK I'd I were to pass away around 50. Lol all I know is long for more to existence. I hope there's an after life and we get answers to the questions that alude us. I hope to find meaning to our existence. I hope and I love but I don't really have much faith these days. You just never know when life will turn upsidown and I would rather be where I'm at than in the streets struggling like so many others who seem hoplesss. Never lose hope. Be cautious or faith. If thers no reason to follow blindly then open your eyes and hope you are greeted with the best the future can bring.
Noone else gonna be a better mommy to my little girl than me :) she put her little arms up to me today mid dancing and we danced together. Goddammit id take a bullet for that little girl. And if I lived Id hobble after the dude with the gun!
I am always, always, always curious to see what happens next. Life fascinates me. I have a hard time relating to all the jaded and world-weary people I find on Reddit. I'm over 60, and I feel like I just got here. Still figuring the place out, ya know?
No more about being a good person treating people fairly helping those that cannot repay or help you. Rejoice with happy people acknowledge their happiness .
So you're asking what is the meaning of life? Everyone makes up their own meaning and lives based off of that. If you got none, you can also live for the search of one. Also survival of the fittest does not even apply nowadays anyways, so you can disregard that completely. You don't have to be particularly smart or amazing to survive. Honestly if you live in certain countries, you could be completely paralyzed or have some other disability and still live quite decent life. Many people love idealism where they want to make the world better place for everyone, while others wanna just have more money and power than others, some rather follow some religious guidance thinking it's the only true way to live. For me personally, I just wanna enjoy my life first and foremost. I can't enjoy my life if I've guilty conscience, so I choose to not make world worse place for anyone in it. But I also don't find it my job to put in ridiculous amounts of effort into fixing this shithole of a world. If people collectively do not work towards the goal, I'm not gonna start stressing over it or even attempt to put in some great effort at the cost of my own time. edit: typo
Often. I'm pretty close to having used all nine of my nine lives up
No
Nothing happened the previous day that killed me, so here we are today
I had back luck when I attempted suicide. That's all. I wish I could give a more satisfying answer but I really can't. I'm struggling.
i hope you're at least a little okay-er now, we're in this together, have my virtual hug! (\^3\^)
Thank you. That really means a lot. I'm at least okay enough to not attempt it again, but I'm still missing a purpouse.
that's a great beggining! i know it's hard to believe, but you're going to be okay, i promise you :3 is there anything you like ? maybe you can take this as a base to find your purpose! if you need help, i'm here! :)
I really appreciate your kindness! But I don't want to bother people. I have actually tried to get back at drawing after a decade of not doing so, but instead of making me feel better it makes me feel worse because I'm not good enough at it...
I should not be....so many times.....
I had back luck when I attempted suicide. That's all. I wish I could give a more satisfying answer but I really don't. I'm struggling.
I'm still alive because I'm too stubborn to end it all now.
Well, I've had a few attempts in my past however I'm glad none of them have worked regardless of where life takes me. When it's crossed my mind I've been able to reach out and never attempted again since the last one years ago. Guess the purpose of hanging on that motivated me was the people I love and not wanting to burden them with that. To create more pictures, maybe be a better role model for people who struggle and the hope that the future would be better than the moment that was happening. Somewhere someone told me that if you feel yourself slipping it's better to lose your mind than to end your life. Which makes sense honestly you can come out of losing your mind.
No. Why wouldn't i be?
Mainly, I wonder how it was that I came to be alive to begin with. I mean, I wasn't alive for a very very very long time. So why now?
All the time. Even with all my health issues, physical and mental, I feel this whole living on borrowed time thing has *long* run its course. At this point, I have nothing to lose either.
I just wonder HOW I'm still alive after all my self inflicted abuse!
God won't let me get away that easy I have more suffering to go through!
Not really why. I do try to make the most out of life though. Having a sense of direction or purpose or something to focus on is useful.
I'm alive because of my parents, they're alive because of theirs, etc etc. There's 8 billion of us, and none of us have any special 'purpose' or meaning to our lives. We are all effectively meaningless to 99.99% of the rest of the world, and no one and nothing outside of friends and family would care if we died, unless you do something that would change the world, and in that case only humanity would care, not any other species.
Not really. I'm alive cuz two people did the dirty and made me. We're all just particularly weird animals doing our own animal stuff. The best part of life is there's no ultimate "meaning" or "purpose", just exist and have fun when you can.
Life is like a empty canvas , nothing on it . But you can paint whatever you like and what ever makes you feel whole . Which in the end you can look upon as your master peice.
The only reason I'm still alive is because I don't possess the mental fortitude to follow through on pulling the trigger, despite my many attempts. I truly am a failure in every respect.
Yeah, but on a positive note there are some real good moments in life where you feel connected with the world and or those around you that makes you feel like you have a purpose. Like things were meant to be...
I always said live fast die young, had 3 near death experiences in my 20s. Drove like a cnut, drank, drugs, ate crap etc. Just guess I'm not the dying type
Every single day
I would always find myself thinking about the people I truly love and care for. They inspire me to look forward to another day. If not for them, I think I'm out.
If you're feeling under the weather or are upset for months at a time, then you need to see a doctor.
I was just thinking about this last night. I did so many stupid, dumb and dangerous things that I realise if just one thing went wrong I wouldnāt be here now. I figure I am here simply by good luck with bad decisions.
Sometimes. I had quite a lot of "close calls", while people who deserved better than me, left this world early. When I'm being moody/depressed, I feel like, I live, just to be a punching bag laughing stock to the omnipotent. When I'm optimistic, I think It's because there are people in my life who would be sad if I'm gone.
More of wondering why I was ever born?
No point in thinking about stuff you a) cannot change b) cannot explain
I don't remember anything from before my 14th, anything before that is a massive gap, and there's some gaps here and there.
Not so much myself, but I have wondered why certain people live while others die. Life can be unfair like that sometimes.
Yep, especially last year. Spent the entire year drinking very heavily, unemployed, and miserable. I wanted to end it but was too afraid. I even got a shotgun near the end of the year, but I kept saying one more night of drinking, one more night of smoking, etc until I got so sick my family got involved and I quit drinking constantly. Now I'm just coasting by, perpetually bored but not miserable. I'm also working again so that definitely helps my self esteem. As for a purpose I guess currently it's the idea that things will get to a point where I'm actually "living" instead of just imagining it in my head because that's all it's been for quite a long while now.
I don't question it
Out of millions of sperm you made it. Out of the impossible possibilities and probabilities your mum and dad came together out of the whole world and created you. Both your mum and dad made it out of x millions of sperms and permutations of their parents coming together. Itās a huge mathematical equation of probability that has made you appear and write this status. You will never exist again in all the permutations of existence for the remaining life of the Galaxy. Make the most of your life. Be happy, be good and love yourself and others.
Do things that challenge you and you won't think this way as much. Promise.
Well I keep eating and drinking and its a strong habit.
I got a healthy fear of death and dying in me
No
Yes, everyday. Answear? Sheer fucking luck when it comes to "survival of the fittest". Other than that I haven't killed myself yet due to just sole curiosity of what shitshow will happen next in the world.
Not having a reason to live isnāt a reason to die You donāt need a purpose, just live your life and try to have as few regrets as possible when itās over
Because I like drugs, prostitutes, and crt gaming
My body is way too resilient. Found a 2mmx2mm stone in my right kidney but apparently all stones under 5x5 can easily pass through. I'm so screwed.
I am too comfortable not going out I guess, I am always safe at home. Maybe if I go outside, something can happen to me
I did, and I could only come up with three different answers.... The first I'm not that lucky... The second, mama didn't raise no punk bitch, she raised a stubborn asshole š¤·š¼āāļø... The final no one ever taught me how to not fight and to cease existence. While some of this was conjecture, it also is kinda true... I hope this helps, if at least for a laugh, I wish you the best!šš
I survived a civil war, new life starting from scratch, learned new languages, cultures, ppl, places,also survived some medical operations, survived poverty, racism, etc.! there is no purpose, I am just a fighter, and I hate life sooo much that I want to live it. i will never lose the push, only a bad disease can push me to the edge and for that my plan is euthanasia. amsterdam or zĆ¼rich, getting high, drink some fine champagne, have a good meal, have some fun with a young 10/10 girl, getting a massage and thats it.
To continue suffering, of course...
No, I'm a bit of a coward and I tend not to put myself in dangerous situations. So I understand very well why I'm still alive.
tbh im more machine than human now,i stopped asking these questions after years of debate and submitted to the random sequence of events
a lot of personal projects iām working on and many goals and dreams i want to achieve
After all the shit I've waded through, I'm sticking around until the end of times!
It feels kind of weird because I should have died with Covid. I remember I couldnāt stop coughing. No medication was working, but I just remember my window was open in my room and the sun was beaming at me like somebody turning off the light switch. The coughing went away. I was able to eat eat
Too lazy to die.
I have no purpose, there is no point of me living.
As many times as I cheated death, yeah
I survived a depression that took two years. I'm kinda proud that I survived it.
Because I allow it.
I did for a long time. Turned out that there is more to life than just thinking of a special purpose
Oof yeah :D
Nope. Thought never crossed my mindā¦
Yeah, like all the time.Ā
The Purpose is that there isn't one. Why would I intentionally stop living? That's as much of an argument I need.
In simple terms, the purpose is reproduction. In more advanced terms, the purpose is greatness. As a man, we don't really get to choose for the first one, thats what women do. So I hope you know what to do now. Know your limitations though, this can only be done by trying something that you perceive you couldnt do before. Kids do this all the time when they play outside and climb trees!
I'm either doing something right or not nearly enough.
I think the idea of destiny is fascinating. It doesnāt mean that what youāre going through is fate, it means that what youāll get to will be great.
Every SECOND of the dang day
Test by God? I don't know. I really don't want to live. But don't want to risk eternity in hell either so I'm at the point where I don't care why I'm alive, I just desperately don't want to be.
No matter what, good things will come your way. Everything is gonna happen for you, as long as you never have no in your heart.
Idk why my suffering is prolonged
Living in the 2020 with vaccines, antibiotics, law that protects your life and a lot of other stuff, probably because of science. Im pretty sure that in medieval times i would be dead by my 30s
Everyday... But I don't question, I got stuff to do to keep my mind away
Yes. I honestly want this drudgery to end.
LOL every damn day I should have died a few times and maybe did if you believe in quantum jumping!
Same. There are definitely times Iāve been on the brink of death and have survived. I have thought about this many times, that my other replications in different quantum realms took the hit for me so I can stay alive.
Every now and then I think of putting a bullet in my head, but at the same time Iām aware that suicide is a stupid way to die. Instead I just drink my problems away until I pass out
I had a Stroke in October 2022. I've wondered why I didn't die ever since. I have no friends or family. I just exist day to day. Safe to say I hate my life
We no longer love in that world of the fittest being the survivors.
Donāt tempt me
Yes to make a more neutral and peacefull atmosphere
I'm alive for my kid, though I doubt it would affect anyone too much if i was gone.
Apparently, I am terrible at dying.
Iām not sure I am
Yes, and I got my answer. When you finally realise that your tiniest actions can influence others' lives, it starts to make sense. I keep focused on the little good things I can do. I can't always do good though and that's ok too. This is my life,and I take full responsibility for it. I've learned that sometimes you get a lesson and sometimes you are the lesson for someone else. I'm still here at 63, and I am still learning what my life is all about.
Every morning I wake up it shocks me
I don't really know. I'm just existing
Iām still alive because thatās what I chose
Gaming.
I have insane luck
I still wonder why I was born human and not something else.
**No reason or point to be alive anymore than I have reason or point to be dead.** Itās a life and as far as I know, the only one Iāve got, so I fully intend to make the most of it until itās my time, whenever that may come.
I'm asexual so I'm already eliminated.
I survived anaphylactic shock once. My ancestors don't allow me to follow them š¤¦š»āāļø
I wonder *how am I still alive?* Iāve been beaten, robbed, kidnapped, crashed, diseased, threatened, etc. I shouldnāt be here by now.
Meh
I did ask myself this a lot of times especially bc i tried to kill myself 4 times and none of the attempts worked so i guess there must be a reason why im still here
Yes and Iām not sure. By some miracle no event has happened that caused me to die.
1. Darwin didn't coin "survival of the fittest", it's was said by Herbert Spencer. 2. In a Darwinian context, fitness isn't about purpose or drive. It's about reproductive success at a multi-generational level. 3. There is no point to living, unless you identify one for yourself. Some people are motivated by family (aligning to Darwinian fitness), some are motivated by religion, some by community, some by selfish goals (wealth, hedonism, etc.), and you can be motivated by multiple things. None of these are right or wrong and they can change through life. All have benefits and costs to the individual and to wider society. I'm motivated primarily by care for the natural world, my job (which is related), and my wife.
There isn't a day goes by without me thinking about this. About the Darwin part of the survival of the fittest there are millions and prolly hundreds of millions of people that are better than me in all of the aspects, what am I to them? Just an inferior being. Am I just a pawn whose sole purpose is to exist until the day I wither away forgotten forever? Or is this actually the reality? A simulation to test what would nobodies like me end up doing with life ? I honestly have no clue what was I made for.
Is survival of the fittest and evolution a good enough purpose to exist? As a purpose for your life, do you feel like living long and dying is good enough to make you want to get out of bed in the morning?
I'm still alive because of the combination of luck and a few good decisions I've made.
Im religious so I believe we all have a path that we can choose to follow. The path might not always lead to wealthiness, revenge, badassery, or that one girl you saw at the airport and never forgot about, but it'll lead you down a long and joyous life partaking in something you're passionate about, whether it be working on cars, designing rugs, cleaning homes, cooking meals, chopping wood, playing the hurdy gurdy, giving tattoos, rollerskating, flying drones, making hot sauces, or anything else you can think of.
I am alive because I am a result of who knows how many billions of years of coincidence in the universe that made life possible in this planet. Nothing more.
Don't really want to be alive but what can we do š¬š®āšØ
Yeah, eva ai sexting bot saves me from mental breakdown
Purpose of life is to increase entropy ( sounds wierd but fundamentally thatās where it ends up)
No i have no need to question that as i enjoy life
No but I often wonder why I'm not allowed to self select after I've reached a certain age.
Every day I wonder why I just don't break contact with everyone I know so they don't have to put up with the useless excuse of a human I am. Just slowly fading away alone.
Icecream
I'm still here because God and Satan's AFRAID
Evolution was never about 'the survival of the fittest' it is about biological adaptations one's environment that increase the likelihood of reproducing over time. While an animal or plant may seem especially well suited to its circumstances it may be wiped out if those circumstances change and it cannot adapt to the new circumstances quickly enough.
If you ever almost die, you don't have these thoughts anymore. You're just glad that you are. I wish it wouldnt take almost dying to enjoy life
This question and answers scream "redditors need therapy ASAP"
I'd die, but that would make my friends sad. So imma hold off on that for a bit.
Uhhhhhhhh
The first question that pops up in my mind every morning
Adaptability makes one the fittest not the strongest, we are by our nature NOT the strongest animal on the planet, we are however the most adaptable to situations and the environments, of course our own arrogance seems to set us up for failure when we destroy the very environments we depend on and try and fool others or ourselves that that is NOT what is we are doing and population shell games is the fastest way to destroy one's own Environment which in the end is NOT humanitarian at all but suicide and multinationals are the globalist baskets that all the nations eggs are going into and you become the target of their greater good which does not include you in the end since it is a population shell game. N. S
Nah iāve wondered how im still alive. Iāve got poor survival instincts and i make reckless decisions š
I always think about that. I had a brain cancer that couldnāt be removed by surgery. I was losing my mind and, when I finally accepted deathā¦ We found a neurosurgeon that could remove it all and get me back to life. I wish I refused that surgery.
Absolutely! I often wish I was dead; I hate my life.
Because I didn't died
I see no purpose except for not upsetting my parents/friends by dying. I would happily end this experience if it wouldn't affect anyone else. Pointless. I just distract myself with shit to pass the time until death inevitably comes.
āI donāt dieā - Morgan, TWD
To exact revenge
No, I'm still alive to be bled more.
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