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What is the point of life?

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For much of my life I was always working towards something. As a kid it was doing well in school so I could go to uni. At uni it was doing well so I could get a good job. At work it was working hard to get promotions and pay rises and career progression.

But then at some point you have to ask yourself what the ultimate goal is, because no matter how hard we work, life is finite. It will end. Money, possessions and titles are no use when you’re dead.

Maybe we should stop telling kids to strive to progress and instead tell them to enjoy their moment.

What makes your life meaningful?

Parents

  • This question is quite heavy. I guess, the point of life is death. To realise what you have in life, it is important to understand that we’ll all die eventually. I find it pretty soothing to know that everything I do is irrelevant in the long run, so I try to be a bit kinder to myself. Life is about how you get to death.

    Nobody knows a definite answer to this question though. That’s the beauty of it.

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  • This question is quite heavy. I guess, the point of life is death. To realise what you have in life, it is important to understand that we’ll all die eventually. I find it pretty soothing to know that everything I do is irrelevant in the long run, so I try to be a bit kinder to myself. Life is about how you get to death.

    Nobody knows a definite answer to this question though. That’s the beauty of it.

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  • in reply to Emmalephant

    The reason I posed the question is that I was thinking about my dad, who died around this time of year.

    I was thinking about the house I mostly grew up in and in which he spent the second half of his life. How he and my mum moved in there and all the hopes they must have had and how it’s all gone now, for nothing.

    But then I realised that it isn’t the end that matters. It’s the forty years they had there together. All the things they did together. They had an allotted time and they used it and that’s all anyone can hope for.

    Sorry if this is too heavy!

  • in reply to Emmalephant

    The Reality of Christ’s Birth where God became Man for sinful and disobedient mankind is something that gives me great hope for us all despite the heartbreak of life on earth, for we in this world but not of this world 

  • in reply to Emmalephant

    It’s actually funny if you look at history and how the focus of people shifted. Back when the church was much more present in everyday life most people basically lived for the life after death. So as you can see, my first answer was very wrong and just a personal approach.