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What is the point of life?

Deleted User

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

  • Every one of us is alive because our parents chose to create a life. if you think about that for a while it’s truly amazing. They chose to create a being and they nurtured and developed it to the point where it could function as an independent person, free to make decisions. I find that very meaningful. What will I do with the opportunities given to me by my parents and will I give that same power to children of my own? The very process is meaningful. The circle of life itself. It doesn’t have to be all about your kids. But you are one, and you were given the opportunity to make an infinite number of choices.

    Happy Christmas, everyone. 

  • in reply to Arise

    The absence of the circle of life is one of the reasons I posed the question. Human connection and children are always quoted as the big things that give life meaning.

    But, like many autistic people, I have neither of those things so need to find meaning elsewhere if that’s possible.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    It could be. Perhaps there are jobs that could bring that meaning through a nurturing or caring profession. Care, healthcare, teaching, counselling?

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