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So tell me, what is your meaning of life :)

Tbh, I got no idea what mine is.
Maybe u guys can give me an epiphany.

Well, I remember a quote from watching The Bucket List that goes something like: "When you reach the Pearly Gates only two questions are asked: Did you find happiness and did you bring happiness to others". I believe in that movie they said it was the ancient Egyptians who believed in that. While in another movie I remember hearing that the Greeks didn't write obituaries and only asked one question when a person dies; "Did (s)he have passion?".

In my own opinion, whatever your religion and if you even believe in a heaven, I like to believe a meaningful life means you've found true happiness and you were able to bring the same upon others. I couldn't care less if one lives their life according to a book, trying to please an deity and what they believe the effect will be after they've passed on, I believe what matters is how we treat one another in this life and do we make our mark, as an individual, in history.

To die.

That is my personal meaning of life.

Dark, but I see it as realistic.

To become immortal, and then die.

Walk In The Light of the lord..Wut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EUy_82IChY&feature=player_detailpage#t=467s

From: Flight
Well, I remember a quote from watching The Bucket List that goes something like: "When you reach the Pearly Gates only two questions are asked: Did you find happiness and did you bring happiness to others". I believe in that movie they said it was the ancient Egyptians who believed in that. While in another movie I remember hearing that the Greeks didn't write obituaries and only asked one question when a person dies; "Did (s)he have passion?".

In my own opinion, whatever your religion and if you even believe in a heaven, I like to believe a meaningful life means you've found true happiness and you were able to bring the same upon others. I couldn't care less if one lives their life according to a book, trying to please an deity and what they believe the effect will be after they've passed on, I believe what matters is how we treat one another in this life and do we make our mark, as an individual, in history.

I've been thinking of this a lot of times last year during my depression(Since I'm never gonna see ya guys irl I'll just share),
even desperately often googling for answers. Most of them lead to 'happiness'.
Like those movies with philosophical messages, trying to achieve their happiness. Conquer what they feel/have.

It was during that time I tried to better my life, organise it. Treat people like how you want to be treated yourself.
Going to the gym with a mate, jogging, eating healthier/more, working again.
I tried for months, and still I felt no happiness at all. Only enduring stress and mental pain. Life wasn't really progressing.
My biggest mistake is quitting on it, never carried on.

Cause now, I really don't care what's gonna happen, what I do. I don't feel alive at all.

I left some parts out, which I rather not share.

I know I cause this to myself, and yet…

From: Sjoe
I've been thinking of this a lot of times last year during my depression(Since I'm never gonna see ya gonna guys irl I'll just share),even desperately often googling for answers. Most of them lead to 'happiness'.
Like those movies with philosophical messages, trying to achieve their happiness. Conquer what they feel/have.

It was during that time I tried to better my life, organise it. Treat people like how you want to be treated yourself.
Going to the gym with a mate, jogging, eating healthier/more, working again.
I tried for months, and still I felt no happiness at all. Only enduring stress and mental pain. Life wasn't really progressing.
My biggest mistake is quitting on it, never carried on.

Cause now, I really don't care what's gonna happen, what I do. I don't feel alive at all.

I left some parts out, which I rather not share.

I know I cause this to myself, and yet…

Stay Strong and keep your head high and remember To stay positive. try and find a hobby or something to occupy your time such as going out with friends etc…i know how you feel as i used to suffer with depression it got to the stage where i wouldn't even leave my room all id do was think and think and think but i realized that that's not going to help a tall stressing myself out over things. Just try and tell yourself that its guna be okay :)

From: happy hippo
Stay Strong and keep your head high and remember To stay positive. try and find a hobby or something to occupy your time such as going out with friends etc…i know how you feel as i used to suffer with depression it got to the stage where i wouldn't even leave my room all id do was think and think and think but i realized that that's not going to help a tall stressing myself out over things. Just try and tell yourself that its guna be okay :)

Yeh, that's what I did too! think think think… How I went so miserably wrong, cause I was too young to realise at that time.

I don't mind if I end up okay or not, I'm done with the way how society works. To put it blunt.

I'm glad u got out of it though! :)

Perhaps you need a complete change in your life my friend. Living in one area your whole life, knowing only the same people from day-to-day, driving the same car, working the same job… unless these things are leading up to a big life goal, they aren't going to make your life exciting and fulfilled.

My English teacher, in my senior year in high school, was pretty inspirational in my life, I'd say. His parent(s?) had commit suicide and I can't imagine what that would do to the child, but it had an effect. At a certain point in his life he had decided life was too precious to give up on and he shouldn't have to accept a small role in it. When he was able he changed his situation completely, moved far away from where he grew up and took on teaching. He taught there at my school for years and years and it didn't seem like he was that wealthy and he was getting pretty old in fact, but he was always cheerful no matter what, always happy to start the next day. And while most teachers don't put that kind of effort into their jobs he tried his best to make us all feel like he was a friend to each of us. Maybe this was his way of bringing happiness to others? Obviously it wasn't the job or the money that made him like this, it's the fact that he took a chance to do something different. If anyone deserved to be depressed it was him, but he realized it was his choice to feel that way or not, and he simply didn't accept that life style.

Not too many people know this about me, but a couple years after school things were a bit gloomy for me, too much of the same thing and same people all of the time, in the small town (population < 6000) and I guess from a combination of wanting a change and always having a sense of adventure I also shifted my situation and decided to move in with / help a good friend of mine on the other side of the planet here in Indonesia. It's so different than before, I can't even begin to explain. But I enjoy it here for many, many reasons and I'm glad I made the decision to make a drastic change.

It's a HUGE world out there buddy, I wish you had just an idea of what it has to offer.

From: Sjoe
I've been thinking of this a lot of times last year during my depression(Since I'm never gonna see ya guys irl I'll just share),
even desperately often googling for answers. Most of them lead to 'happiness'.
Like those movies with philosophical messages, trying to achieve their happiness. Conquer what they feel/have.

It was during that time I tried to better my life, organise it. Treat people like how you want to be treated yourself.
Going to the gym with a mate, jogging, eating healthier/more, working again.
I tried for months, and still I felt no happiness at all. Only enduring stress and mental pain. Life wasn't really progressing.
My biggest mistake is quitting on it, never carried on.

Cause now, I really don't care what's gonna happen, what I do. I don't feel alive at all.

I left some parts out, which I rather not share.

I know I cause this to myself, and yet…

I know what you mean tryed to get me shiz together but just couldn't keep it up …

Dont seem to have any control in life so stopped trying .. regret it now as you kinda get stuck you
dont ever wanna give up people .. I Mean It .. Its very hard to get things rolling again…

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

~^~ Mabey its good advice ? ~^~

Edit: Thinking about it , ive try'd not to quit on things so much the last few Years and although i havent get found "Happiness" things are beginning to get easier… :)

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From: Flight
Perhaps you need a complete change in your life my friend. Living in one area your whole life, knowing only the same people from day-to-day, driving the same car, working the same job… unless these things are leading up to a big life goal, they aren't going to make your life exciting and fulfilled.

My English teacher, in my senior year in high school, was pretty inspirational in my life, I'd say. His parent(s?) had commit suicide and I can't imagine what that would do to the child, but it had an effect. At a certain point in his life he had decided life was too precious to give up on and he shouldn't have to accept a small role in it. When he was able he changed his situation completely, moved far away from where he grew up and took on teaching. He taught there at my school for years and years and it didn't seem like he was that wealthy and he was getting pretty old in fact, but he was always cheerful no matter what, always happy to start the next day. And while most teachers don't put that kind of effort into their jobs he tried his best to make us all feel like he was a friend to each of us. Maybe this was his way of bringing happiness to others? Obviously it wasn't the job or the money that made him like this, it's the fact that he took a chance to do something different. If anyone deserved to be depressed it was him, but he realized it was his choice to feel that way or not, and he simply didn't accept that life style.

Not too many people know this about me, but a couple years after school things were a bit gloomy for me, too much of the same thing and same people all of the time, in the small town (population < 6000) and I guess from a combination of wanting a change and always having a sense of adventure I also shifted my situation and decided to move in with / help a good friend of mine on the other side of the planet here in Indonesia. It's so different than before, I can't even begin to explain. But I enjoy it here for many, many reasons and I'm glad I made the decision to make a drastic change.

It's a HUGE world out there buddy, I wish you had just an idea of what it has to offer.

Your teacher was a gem :) Yeah, I should be in an new environment like u are atm. Would affect my mindset a lot I believe. Stuck in this vicious cycle.

Seems like I'm feeling better atm than usual, maybe cause I did some physical exercises, body more relaxed :p
Should do it more often, could get me started again. And try to forget bout the past.

From: happy hippo
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Feels good sometimes to throw it out in the open. :)

From: Sjoe
Your teacher was a gem :) Yeah, I should be in an new environment like u are atm. Would affect my mindset a lot I believe. Stuck in this vicious cycle.

Seems like I'm feeling better atm than usual, maybe cause I did some physical exercises, body more relaxed :p
Should do it more often, could get me started again. And try to forget bout the past.



Feels good sometimes to throw it out in the open. :)

Ohh Dont i know it Brother.

I do whatever I feel like, whenever I want… always have

go to school cuz it's fun
started college at 15, I was bored of highschool after a year
work when I am bored of sitting on the internet
leave the country when I am bored of working & sitting on the internet

repeat

From: litoris
To become immortal, and then die.

This is one of the most curios thing i ever read. Its true, to become immortal doesn't mean you need to live for ever.

Mine: to live this place a bit better than i found it. To live with passion and craziness, to create my own path,to fall then raise. And finally living each day as if it was the last one (without making it the last hahaha).

This semester I felt depressed, I needed to choose a career, My family situation wasn't good, I didn't felt real friendship although they were a lot of friends. A lot of big changes in my life. Many of my preferences were in conflict with my ideologies. I started to feel strange, to feel if i didn't knew who i am.

Well finally i decided not to worry a lot. Every path you take on life, you can change it. If i didn't like my career i could choose another one, and it will not be lost time, because I learn from it. If my Family situation didn't get better well someday if I have a family i wont make the same mistakes. I could even look for better friends. BUt the most important thing i realize is that this experiences are not lost time. You always learn, and although intelligence nor money will not give you happiness wisdom will. And the only way you can achieve wisdom is by falling and getting up, bust the most important thing is to learn from that fall. And after all this events in life you will understand who you are. Why are you here. And where are you going.

And also how can you appreciate happiness if you never experienced sorrow?

Gl My friend life is like a blank canvas and you are the only one who can decide what to paint on it, because in the last days you are the only one who will decide if that painting is the masterpiece.

Keep your head up sJOE. <3

From: eduardo230
Gl My friend life is like a blank canvas and you are the only one who can decide what to paint on it, because in the last days you are the only one who will decide if that painting is the masterpiece.

I love this line :)

Flight's story of his teacher reminded me of an English teacher I once had back in high school. He was African/American and always very well presented and always wore a shirt and tie (which was out of the ordinary as my school was sort of a poor school). He was always in a good mood and always had time for you; one the nicest guy you would ever meet. He was one of those people who had experienced a lot of things in life. Most of our lessons we didn't actually learn any English because he would start telling us these stories of all the things he had seen and done. I will never forget this one story he told us about how he was caught in a holdup and saw his friends get shot right in front of him and had a gun held to his head. He used to be some sort of gangster or something. Once he even showed us all his tattoos underneath his ironed shirt. The well-presented, well spoken English teacher was in a way some sort of façade covering a past life. He was actually a very good teacher, very inspiring, and many agreed he was by far the best teacher in the school. He would always encourage me to pursue my strengths and passions.

Anyway, I’ve thought about the meaning of life in the past, I think I went through a phase about 3 or 4 years ago. I actually have a document on my computer from back then with all these quotes about the meaning of life that I researched. Here is one that stood out for me:

We are born. We study, find a job, get married, have children, grow old. And die. In between, we chase money, fame, sex, knowledge and indirectly, happiness. But is that all there is to living, or life?

In my opinion you should try and get the most out of life by experiencing new things. You shouldn't get stuck in the same confined routine of eat, setup bots, watch tv, check bots, eat, sleep, repeat. Like Flight said, there is a whole world out there waiting for you. I always think that my future wife is in some far away foreign country and one day I will meet her on my travels (someone that looks like r00t with a sexy accent ;)) I have all these dreams and plans of what I want to do with my life, I just need to make them a reality.

Reading though this thread I realized I don't have anything nearly as meaningful to add as some of the other people here. One thing I have realized in the past year though, is that spending time with friends is more important than you might think. I don't really invite people over, and as a result people don't invite me places often either. The times that I have been to parties or just hanging out, I had a lot of fun, but for some reason I just don't put in the effort to organize activities. Like I'm happy to go if someone organizes something, but I just don't really feel comfortable inviting people to things. It was easier when I was younger and all the kids on our street would play manhunt, that was a lot of fun :/

I'd also like to add that my grade 7-9 English teacher was great too. Occasionally she'd get off topic and tell us stories, like one time her beagle had to get it's stomach pumped because it had eaten a bag of weed (It was fine).
Also she really liked The Simpsons and would talk about parts of an episode that had to do with what we were learning, like satire, ect. :D She also taught me to enjoy grammar, which I used to hate learning.

Look at us talking about meaning in life and we sit on the internet…

To procreate and die.

From: double codes
Look at us talking about meaning in life and we sit on the internet…

Happened before I sat on the internet :)
The internet does make me dull…

I believe that the meaning of life is to bring fellowship and meaning to others. So in a sense, the meaning of life is not created by one's self, but given unto us by others as they see fit. As a person in a functioning society, when you become somebody, you are immediately labelled as that (ie: nerd, jock, goth). The type of person you are reflects on how your "meaning" plays out. You go down a different path than others, hang out with different people, and function mentally in a completely different way. The people in other paths will label you as you are and treat you as you are to be treated. This treatment is essentially your "meaning"; your life has practically been written for you from the moment you were labelled, to the day you die unless you change who you are. When you are labelled, you sort of get a sense of the way your life will play out and at that point you need to make a decision: Is this me? Is this who I want to be? Is there something missing? Once you answer these, you can move on. If you are not satisfied, you will make a change (if you are mentally and physically determined to change your role). When others realize this, they will label you differently and you will be treated differently and hang out with different people, ultimately changing your life for better or for worse. When you grow up and start to work, get married, do things you want to do ETC, you will find other things that mean a lot. But the thing is, you don't find these things as an original concept. Something finds it for you be it the internet, a safari guide, or even an animal. This gets back to what I said earlier "the meaning of life is not found by one's self, but given unto them by others" So basically, what I'm trying to say is: If you go through your life trying to find and unravel the mysteries of life, you will die an unfulfilled person. I like how Tyler Durden says it (Fight Club reference): "Let go of the wheel and let the car do the driving" of course it's a little out of context but it works. Let somebody else show you the meaning of life rather then waiting to stumble upon it. You are not the meaning of life. Let somebody else give you meaning.

Looks like someones forgetting what turp always says…
FB;GM.
(thats fk bitches; Get Money)

My goal in life is to make as many people happy as I can without making myself sad or do things I don't want to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw&NR=1

That song describes what I want the most lol. I'll get there eventually.

"The world better prepare for when I'm a billionaire."