Besides 42, of course.
To crush my enemies. See them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Me personally? To enjoy it. What that means changes as I age, but I get immense pleasure from my relationships (I love hanging out with friends and family), I get a lot of satisfaction from helping others, and making people laugh. I’ve got some hobbies as well, and I like to travel to new places when I can. I try my best to keep my actions aligned with my principles, which leaves me with a generally clear conscience and positive self-image. I could never possibly have all the experiences that might interest me, so I cross my fingers for reincarnation, but otherwise feel I could die without much regret.
There isn’t one. It’s a sandbox so you define your own. My own is to make my corner of life a little nicer than before I was here.
As inspired by Francis Bacon
To care for the living.
To live a life full of meaning.
Aka basements, drugs, gaming, asian food, and tons of easy to find gay sex.
It’s probably pointless and arbitrary.
I’ll just enjoy the time I’m given.
Yep I don’t have any answer and making one up seems hollow.
I’m on this boat too. Absurdism for the win IMO.
This basically what I think too. I will add that I make sure other people (current and future) can enjoy it as much as possible too, so that means I will avoid anything needlessly destructive even if it is enjoyable
I don’t find much joy in destroying in the first place. But then I guess you destroy a tree to create a chair, and creating is fun.
Why does everyone insist life has to have meaning? We can just be here because here is where we happen to be. It’s allowed.
The meaning of life (to you) could be to: “Just be here because here is where we happen to be.”
It’s not that deep, really. Some people want to have an impact, others just want to chill. I’m just curious what people’s first response is to that question and so far I have seen lots of interesting comments.
I mean, it’s kind of always/only as deep as we choose to make it, right?
That could be the meaning of life to me, but in truth I just don’t see the world in a way that allows such a definite and easy framing. Meaning changes depending on context. What means to me today may mean nothing much tomorrow and, whether every individual realizes it or not, this is universally true. The question is a mess of a philosophical endeavor, and the more you take it apart and break its pieces down, the more ineffable and illusory the concept becomes. An often useful and positive illusion tbc, but not necessarily so as it can easily swing the other way, too.
So my point in not answering your question was to sort of nudge others to challenge their own relationship with the idea of meaning because…well because I think that is simply a meaningful endeavor.
In the spirit of being slightly less difficult than my mind often would like; I will say that I find a lot of meaningful purpose in getting others to see things from different perspectives. Reminding the world that, while boxes and labels do exist and do broadly serve their purpose, they also do not necessarily always do the job we often hope of them. I can’t honestly say I believe there is a definite and true meaning to my life or any other, but there is still much we can do that is meaningful and worth doing. So, there. Seems to be as close as I can manage to giving you a straight answer today lol
Out of Spite.
To be the anomoly of the world.
As a “fuck you” to the Communist Party of China who didn’t want me to be born for being the 2nd child.
As a “fuck you” to white supremacists and other political/reglious extremists that want me dead.
To make sure my abusive older brother doesn’t get the gratification of me being dead. To call dibs on my parents assets when they die, to make sure he doesn’t get my share.
To enjoy Movies, TV, Anime, read books, play videos games.
To explore the world one day.
To publish a book one day that people would want to read.
To form true friendships, real friendships.
And hopefully, when I find the financial stability and I win against depression, I kinda wanna start a family, to raise children that will grow up experiencing only happiness, and never ever ever have to experience the abuse I had when I was growing up, to bring more happiness into the world and thus making the world less sad.
Damn reading your message made me want to take revenge and I wasn’t even wronged that much
To know what it’s like to experience/be aware of emotions and feelings most of the time.
Have as much fun today, without ruining tomorrow.
I do not believe there to be a higher meaning. Nor for that fact to have particular meaning. As such, I also do not assign particular meaning to suffering. But others don’t seem to enjoy it much, so I throw myself with full force against it, because why not?
I’d say that improving as a person and leaving the world slightly better as you found it. I guess that’s not meaning per-se but rather a principle to try and live up to.
what I can do for others
To bear witness and contort.
