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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

  • I believe, that we live to experience, challenge ourselves (our very lives are challenges) and develop. Not necessarily to get prizes that are visible by others. Simple going through the day or defeating illness, depression, making progress that is not visible to others is as significant or even more. I made three big achievements in my life- I started communicating my needs as nearly adult, then I started setting my own boundaries (still working on it) and stopped hating myself to the point of being suicidal. Still struggling with my self esteem and other issues. Others don’t see it. Someone from the outside may see me as a bit odd but doing fine. 
    I’m also proud of myself that I went to Uni. Not that I graduated, but that I went there. Started although being laughed off and told by my family that I’m too stupid and not suitable to graduate and live independently. 4 years later their jaws dropped when they saw this “stupid weirdo” can achieve something. 

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth
    Alien0n3arth said:
    Simple going through the day or defeating illness, depression, making progress that is not visible to others is as significant or even more.

    This is necessary for ourselves but I think we deserve more than simply surviving our problems.

    Alien0n3arth said:
    I’m also proud of myself that I went to Uni.

    Well doneSlight smile Uni was the hardest time of my life and I realise now that it left me with trauma, but I often ask people if they can reframe something bad in positive way, and you have done this. I too should be proud that I managed to complete uni despite all the challenges.

    Alien0n3arth said:
    Not necessarily to get prizes that are visible by others.

    I have come to realise that most people don’t even notice those prizes and when they do, they usually resent them. The prizes may be symbolic of real achievements but they have limited value in themselves. 

  • in reply to Deleted User

    That’s sad, looks like I was lucky to be used for help, as if it’s written on my forehead, that here is a brain that helps others. Unfortunately when I needed help, there was nobody for me. 

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    I spent every day alone. Lectures, study, tutorials, lunches - alone. I felt like an unseen ghost wandering among the living.

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