The meaning of life.
Many have speculated as to what it might be.
The pessimistic of us say it is simply to live work and die with few moments of happiness or joy.
The optimistic of us would prefer to think of life as a roller coaster of ups and downs.
The religious view that we live to serve a higher power, to prove our selves worthy of our next life.
The scientist in us may think that we ultimately are living to reproduce.
I tend to think life has very little meaning, we are when it comes down to it simply animals. We have one lasting animistic urge and that is reproduction. on a base level it could be argued it is our only purpose for existence. The true meaning of life is down to the individual, meaning is something that only the individual can truly aspire to for himself, it could be one mans meaning is to settle down with a fammily and live to watch his children grow. Another man could see meaning and fulfillment in money and power.
ultimately perhaps we don’t know quite if we have found our meaning until we are on deaths door, maybe it is only then that we realize we have done all we wanted in life or not.
To me the meaning I have chosen to apply to my life. Is that I live it to its fullest, if I am to work I will work in a job I love, I want to learn as much as I can from anyone that is willing to teach me and I want to grow old raise a fammily and pass on what Ive learned to my children and to anyone willing to listen.
I want to travel, I want to bungee jump and jump out of a plane, I want to when it comes time be able to look back on my life with a smile.
What do you all think? have you found a meaning to your life?
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