What is the meaning of life for you?

Whether you believe in God or Nothing it seems all about survival
I try to survive life and if i get some pleasure from it its a bonus.
Everyday surviving illness and poverty and loneliness is what i do
I believe were basically consumers and like little ants working all our lives to provide for the privileged few who consume the most and dictate to the majority.
It shocks me the way the world over consumes resources and isn’t surprising why we have wars

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I’m in limbo; not really living, but doing enough. My life isn’t exciting and I do a lot of just surviving, broken up by getting out and doing minimal activities. My life is pretty routine: going to work, eating , cleaning house, going to doctor appointments. Rarely, I will see my sister and have dinner with her. What’s it all mean? Good question. I’m kind of comfortable in my life. I have enough money for a few luxuries, I finished school. Time to add something to my repertoire of activities. My meaning I guess is just living clean and staying out of trouble, doing what I have to do to live on my own. I have no cosmic, spiritual meaning to my life.

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Consume mass quantities.

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Life is a nuthouse without walls. We’re all playing musical chairs in a workplace industrial complex. Trading places with the next man. When the music stops peoples lives are ruined. Money, sex, and power is what we’re programmed to love. Television keeps us all docile and distracted while the workaholics are busy picking our pockets. All human love is conditional. Everyone has a breaking point. The minute you stop being happy you wonder why you’re so empty. You’ve never had peace before so you can’t recognize it. You’re too busy living a hedonistic lifestyle sucking down pleasure day in and day out. Society thinks for you to justify its ends. We’re unable to think for ourselves. The only agenda that matters is the one we’re programmed to believe since birth. You don’t wanna play the game then too bad you lose. Learn to love your own company. Self hatred and feeling sorry for yourself will be your own prison. As you peek through the jail bars you see men of high pedigrees and stature living your ideal life. As you get older you become less risk oriented. Everyday your choices get more narrow making decisions more easier to address with less options. The news paralyzes us with fear until we become desensitized. Good and bad lives in every man. Frustrate a man or disrespect him and he bursts out in anger. Your friends fantasize about sleeping with your girlfriend. How much of a friend are they. They’re animals. The same people that create the problems in the world create the answers. Books and men will sell you dreams on how to get rich, how to be an alpha, how to be successful, neglecting to leave out that they came from money and you were born poor. Life is not fair. You’re broke from buying self help books and pleasures for your five senses. If only you took the other path. Maybe just maybe. One day you wake up and you’re an old man. 40 years in the rat race and all you did was sustain yourself living hand to mouth with nothing to show for it. The only thing that got you through it all was love in varying degrees from varying people. Love thy neighbor. And after it all your senses still crave more. The old is no different than the young.

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Try and leave things better than you found them. Make a point of sharing what you can, whenever you can. Do your best not to be a flaming douche nozzle.

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All of it true @Zwaynopolous

@77nick77 you sound like me just surviving

@Montezuma the more you consume the less money you have and adding to climate pollution

@shutterbug you have family at least , children help you

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I hear ya big dude.

I was just kidding, and quoting the Coneheads. :wink:

I actually lead a very frugal lifestyle and I’m a fan of upcycled fashion.

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Life is a series of experiences of good, bad and everything in between. So may as well make the most of it.

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When is that supposed to start?

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Lol they give you a purpose

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Men living your ideal life, all I can say there is more out there.

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Right now it’s supporting her through university.

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Whats she doing at uni

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Bachelor of Commerce with a major in marketing. She’s also becoming a very proficient digital illustrator.

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She sounds very smart and talented

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It just seems like I process information every day. A good day is when I get up early and do all I can until I’m tired at night.

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We throw away one third of the food we produce in America. We need to find a way to change that. I believe you can’t make an economy completely fair, but you should try hard to do make life as fair as you can. , Right now the meaning of life for me is to stay sober and work on my writing.

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For myself I try to stay level headed when adversity strikes. No endings, only the beginnings of new days.

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For me is to make a change in self …
I should change for the better…
Life has no purpose but the purpose is what I decide…
May be go with my understanding…
Or the rest who thought me what purpose would look like…
Over all if I am happy…through my brain recording … Is all meaningful…

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The true meaning of life:

A businessman who’s caught up in the rat race decides to quit his job and dedicate his life to searching the world for someone who knows what the real meaning of life is. He hears rumors of a guru living somewhere in the Himalayas who has the answer he seeks.

The man divorces his wife and leaves her with his three children and sells his house and his fancy cars and all his worldly possessions and uses the money to help him in his search for this guru.The man catches a plane to the foot of the Himalayas and starts his journey in earnest.

He faces freezing temperatures and blinding snowstorms. He faces starvation and sickness. He faces treacherous chasms and frostbite and the constant threat of avalanches. But he keeps climbing and searching for ten solid years. Finally, one day he is hiking and he tops a cliff and he sees about 50 feet from him the mouth of a cave. He is weak and near death and he is reduced to crawling on his hands and knees but he looks ahead and he sees a a little campfire glowing and he can just barely make out the figure of a little, wizened old man wearing nothing but a robe, sitting on the ground in front of the campfire meditating.

He knows his search is over and he knows the man is the guru he has been looking for. He gets to the man and he cries out, “Oh honorable guru, I’ve been looking for you for all this time. I gave up everything, I risked my health and my life to find you. I gave up my loved ones, my friends, all my worldly possessions to find out what the real meaning of life is. Tell me, oh great and wise one, what is the meaning of life?”

The guru looks at him solemnly and says, " My child, you have found the right person. And here is the meaning of life which took me 70 years of suffering and self-sacrifice to figure out: “Warm biscuits and soak your feet every morning in vinegar and you will be the happiest man on earth”. The man looks at the guru and says angrily “THAT’S NOT THE MEANING OF LIFE”.
The guru gets a surprised look on his face and says, 'Oh really; it isn’t"?

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