Ok, so what is the meaning of life?

Question

I feel like giving up. I keep trying to do things right. Am I just unlucky with life, jobs ect. Does anyone feel the same today. Help I need direction, consolation or something. Help!

Answer 1

Albert Camus struggled with this question and decided that because there was no inherent meaning in life, it was vital that we each give our own lives meaning.



What brings happiness to you? What do you do that helps other people? What makes you special, what is unique to you, that you do well? How can you spend more of your time engaged with these qualities?



My practical answer is to hang out with a community of people with learning disabilities. They understand all about valuing people as individuals and treasuring friendships. I get social kudos elsewhere for being a good person and volunteering, but seriously, I don't know what I'd do without my friends there.

Answer 2

I went through a period a few weeks ago when a friend died. He was only 23 yrs old. He was a good person, a nice helpful person, an extremely intelligent person who had everything in the world going for him, studied hard in school, got a good job, lots of potential. I kept wondering why he died, but here I was... a person who's screwed up so much, still alive. I'm still not completely sure why. Maybe to teach me a lesson to appreciate what I have in life cuz it can be taken away in a second??

Sometimes I feel like life has screwed me over too, but now I've slowed down. I've taken a job that I don't necessarily like, but is paying my debt, slowly very slowly. Right now, I'm looking as it as, a job not a career. My bf of 5 yrs had screwed me over, but I'm over it know... accepting the fact that I lost 5 yrs on someone who wasn't worth it, yet appreciating that I didn't marry or have kids with him. I've lost many friends in life, but now realize they weren't true friends. Life is still a learning process for me. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing. I know it will take a few years before I'm stable, but I'll get there... I'll be happy with my life eventually. Right now, I'm just taking it step by step.



I have a feeling that the purpose of life is to LOVE. Love the people in your life that support you and care about you..sometimes you don't appreciate them until they are gone. Love nature to make it a greener place. Love strangers to help the poor who are hungry and homeless. Love other countries/people to have peace. What is the purpose of having money if you are not going to do good with it? - it can be gone in a second, but the good you do can multiply and last forever. You want to teach your kids to be good people, to be kind loving people. A person who knows love, knows what a difference it can make in one's life. I know this is sounding sappy, but I really do believe love can solve the world's problems. Ok, I'm done with my essay...LoL =)

Answer 3

I feel like that all the time. If I didn't have a son I would feel like the meaning of life is pointless. He's what gives it meaning. My mom always gives me the same piece of advice which is things seem so hard now, but keep working hard and it will get better. I am not sure if that's true but it makes me feel a little better.

Answer 4

The truth is, that this is a question that you have too look inside yourself to find. No one person can give you the answer. But maybe you can find someone or something that leads you to your answer. Im native american a holy person and psychologist, and i can tell you what i believe, that life is the process of living every day facing new challenges and learning to overcome them. In the process of life what you learn you need to pass it on to others to help them with their journeys. If you need help consult Carlos Costeneda its a good start. great books. Always remember, live each day like it is your last, try not to judge others, lose your negativity and love always love.

Answer 5

life has to be enjoyed as a gift if u worry too much about money ,job etc then u will end up running crazily after all these things . wts the use ? all these things will end one day so learn to be happy with wt positive things u ve on daily basis like enjoy gud weather or a happy conversation etc. life is slipping by it wont stop till u get everything right in ur life . so relax n be happy

Answer 6

There is no meaning to life. We are a tiny portion of a vast and complex eco system (that sadly we are destroying).



But if you want to give meaning to your own life, you need a higher purpose. whether that be caring for downtrodden kids in your area or helping out in a soup kitchen. Don't be so selfish. Help someone else out and do that everytime you feel bad. It will give you perspective and you might not feel so sorry for yourself.



FP

Answer 7

I hear what your saying. I keep myself motivated through spirituality...i just tell myself that everything happens for a reason..... all the bad stuff and the good.....Believe me, i've been in that phase more often than not.....where you feel like nothing works out right...but just keep going....everything falls into place if you stop fighting against life...and walk with it instead. Just keep going and you'll figure out the meaning of your life in due time.

Answer 8

The only thing that can help you is your brain. Never despair. If you get the flu every year, just think all the time: "I'm the type that never gets the flu". Practice specially everynight before sleeping. Also, apply this to all domains.

Good luck m' man, and never despair. Every problem has its solution...

Answer 9

You come here to obtain a body and to learn. Before you came here you and your Heavenly Father had a chat. He asked you what you wanted to learn. You told him and He said in order to do that you will need to go down certain paths. You should always strive to do your best, but when things don't go the way you plan, don't sweat the small stuff. God knows what you need to learn. Know you are a child of God, you have a purpose and there is a plan for you. You know, it wouldn't hurt to ask Him for help. He's always there ya know...just waiting for you to ask.

Answer 10

Life is what you make it.



You can do good things, nobody said this was going to be easy, you are a great person, keep trying, you will figure it all out, people love you, and always keep going....



Don't give up-

Answer 11

According to the teachings of Abraham (check out the book by Jerry and Ester Hicks) the purpose of life is to feel good!

Answer 12

Love. When things seem impossible and hatred fills our every atom, when we fall down, when nothing is worth it- love. It's why we're here. It's the sole purpose of our very existence. To love when doing so seems impossible. To love and pray that someone loves us back.

Answer 13

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well the truth is it better a live than dead.

think of it like this you could worse off.

just pick yourself back up and start over again as bad as it sounds.

Life is riddle success and failures. It is just part of life.

Answer 14

Don't feel bad just remeber life is full of hills and valeys but when you reach the end there is just water

Answer 15

Make the best of what you have,hope that tomorrow will be better,it's like the weather,life can go days or weeks cloudy,rainy,whatever,but there's always a better day ahead.

Answer 16

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.



I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.



You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.



The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

Answer 17

according to islam this life is a test. we should all try to do our best to pass it. there so much more in life that u probably did not see. islam is the way of life and has the answers to every single question u might have. it is the solution to ur everyday problems. its the direction. email me for further questions. take care and may allah guide us all.

Answer 18

The meaning of life is to pro create.





But... you should find a hobby that makes you feel good. You need to find your calling, wether it be doing something you've always wanted to do, seek out religion or get a fulfilling job. Life is wonderful, you just haven't found a reason for it to be.

Answer 19

According to Islam, the meaning of life is to worship God, and prove Satan wrong. Satan thought he was better than Adam, peace be upon him, and tried to prove it. God wants us to prove Satan wrong by our worshipping God and ignoring Satan. It's like this life is one big contest between them, and God will reward you for being on His side.

Answer 20

You are not alone.... life suck's! But how you take it is the entire question... take it with a smile and shrug it off or you can be mad about it. It is reflected on you.... by you.

Answer 21

To have true faith in God and to worship HIM by helping others,making useful things to mankind ,enjoying myself and praying.

Answer 22

To know God and His Son, Jesus Christ and to make Him known to others.



John 17

Jesus' Prayer for His Followers

1-5 Jesus said these things. Then, raising his eyes in prayer, he said:

Father, it's time.

Display the bright splendor of your Son

So the Son in turn may show your bright splendor.

You put him in charge of everything human

So he might give real and eternal life to all in his charge.

And this is the real and eternal life:

That they know you,

The one and only true God,

And Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

I glorified you on earth

By completing down to the last detail

What you assigned me to do.

And now, Father, glorify me with your very own splendor,

The very splendor I had in your presence

Before there was a world.

Answer 23

To live each day as it comes, be happy, be healthly, love others, and love yourself, have faith in yourself

Answer 24

the meaning of life is to reproduce and carry on the human race.

Answer 25

It is a film by Monty Python.....

Answer 26

find your true self



Consider the following points:



1.who other people see you as.

2. who you believe you are

3. who you really are



When you have found your true self then life will become easier.

Answer 27

Thats life good & bad.We all go through it,so cheer up your not alone.

Answer 28

THINGS NEVER REMAIN SAME , HAVE FAITH , A BEAUTIFUL "TOMORROW" IS WAITING FOR U ....

Answer 29

be happy life wiil get better.

Answer 30

One thing. What that one thing is, of course, up to you.

Answer 31

birth,, living and die

Answer 32

God created us for His glory. One has the most meaningful life when they are united to God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.



The sin of our first parents (Adam and Eve) brought about the fallen state of mankind. Humans are sinful because of their iniquity, sins bring curses and both iniquity and curses pass down the generations if they are not cleansed by the blood of Christ. Children are born with defects and suffer unfortunate circumstances because of curses due to their ancestors’ unrepented sins. Hereditary illness is an example of a curse. In the future, God will make a new Heaven and earth, and there will be no more suffering, sickness, sin, evil, old age or death. God’s people (those who accept His Son Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord) will joyfully and peacefully live in this new and perfect earth, with the Lord Jesus Christ as their King forever. See chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation.



Almighty God was, is and will always be triune (one God in three persons, not three gods). God is comprised of the Father, the Son (Lord Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. Each person of the Triune Godhead has a different role. There is only one God (Isaiah 43:10-11; 44:6,8; 45:21-22; 46:9; John 17:3; 1 John 5:20-21). The Father is God (1 Peter 1:2; Philippians 2:11), the Lord Jesus Christ is God (Matthew 1:23; John 1:1; 20:28; Hebrews 1:8; Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 1:7-8; 2 Peter 1:1; Titus 2:13) and the Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4; Acts 28:25-27; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 3:17).



Without God, man’s spirit is unilluminated. This illumination happens at the time one’s spirit is united to the Holy Spirit (which happens only after one has accepted Christ as their Saviour). The Light went out of the spirit after the fall of man. Man had lost communion with God. Christ, the second person of the Triune Godhead made the sacrifice for our sins so the Light could be lit in the spirits of all. There is no redemption or unity to God apart from receiving Christ as one’s Saviour and Lord. The infilling of the Holy Spirit was possible only after Christ’s sacrifice. Before the death of Christ, the Holy Spirit only fell on persons who worshiped and served the true God (Judges 15:14; Ezekiel 11:5). Hebrews 9:6-8 (KJV) tells us that unity to God “the way into the Holiest of all” was also possible only after Christ’s sacrifice which brought an end to the Old Covenant. Christ made the sacrifice for our sins as the spotless lamb (1 Peter 1:9) and took the place of the Jewish high priest and became our eternal High Priest (Hebrews 6:20). The Book of Hebrews explains how the Old Covenant was replaced by the New Covenant.



The blood of Christ was shed so our sins could be paid for and we could have direct unity to God. The Holy Spirit leads us to remain focused on God so we can grow spiritually. God the Father lives within believers (John 14:23), God the Holy Spirit lives within believers (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) and God the Son also lives within believers (2 Corinthians 13:5, Galatians 2:20). Because Christ lives in us, we are a new being, having our old self with its evil practices stripped off, and we are being renewed and remoulded after the image of God, in order to bring us to a full knowledge of Himself (Colossians 3:9-10). Because He lives in us, we have His peace (John 16:33), we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), we have His strength to do all things (Philippians 4:13) and we are a chosen race, the King’s priests, the holy nation and God’s own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God (Peter 2:9). As Christians, the Lord Jesus Christ is always interceding for us (Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25), He is preparing a place for us in heaven (John 14:1–3) and He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Matthew 3:11).



The truth about Jesus Christ can be found only in the word of God which is the Holy Bible. Three days after the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, He resurrected from the dead (Luke 24:1-8; Acts 10:40; 1 Corinthians 15:4) and 40 days later, He ascended into Heaven (Acts 1:3; Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-11).



1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”



Jesus Christ is Lord over all:



Philippians 2:9-11

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.



False doctrines claim that there are several paths to God. The word of God tells us that THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GOD AND THIS IS THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST AS ONE’S LORD AND SAVIOUR.



John 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.



John 3:36

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him



Shortly after physical death, humans pass into either Heaven or Hell. Before Christ’s sacrifice, access into Heaven was not possible for human souls. The souls of those who loved and served the true God were kept in the paradise part of a spiritual place within the earth called Sheol, and the other part of Sheol was a prison of torment where the souls of those who rejected God ended up (Luke 16:19-31). There was a spiritual gulf fixed between these two parts so no soul from one side could cross over to the next (Luke 16:26). Access into Heaven was made possible for humans by Christ’s sacrifice and right after He died on the cross He went into the paradise part of Sheol, told the good souls (who were there for thousands of years) what He did and took them up to Heaven (Matthew 12:40; Ephesians 4:8–10; 1 Peter 3:18–20). The paradise part of Sheol no longer exists but the prison part of Sheol still does. This part of torment is called Hades or Hell. Those who reject God by not receiving Christ or any one of the Triune Godhead (Jeremiah 15:6; Matthew 12:311; Chronicles 28:9; 1 John 2:23) end up there and then go into the Lake of Fire after the Millennium (Revelation 20:15). Earthly fire, Godly fire (the type Jesus baptizes with) and the tormenting fire of the Lake of Fire are three different types of fire. There is also demonic fire which demons can produce.



Reincarnation is a false teaching (Hebrews 9:27). The Lord Jesus said that the human being’s afterlife state whether torment or paradise, will be eternal (Matthew 25:46). In the original text, the Greek word for eternal, aiōnion is used. He didn’t say that we would be born again and again until we got it right and received liberation. He would not have made that huge sacrifice for us if we could have had unity to God another way, and if there was another way, He would have taught that. The Lord said he could have employed legions of angels to prevent His crucifixion (Matthew 26:53), but because of His great and perfect love for humanity, He chose to endure a very painful death so we could be redeemed and united to God.



Salvation, redemption, reception of the Holy Spirit and adoption as God’s own children happen the instant a human being has faith in Christ as their Saviour and Lord and not at some future time in the believer’s life.



People who have not accepted Christ can become better individuals, but only to a certain extent. The Holy Spirit calls out to everyone but only those who have let the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Triune Godhead) into them by accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour are the ones who are transformed and experience abundant and constant spiritual growth.



Iniquities (tendencies that cause one to sin) pass down the generation line (Numbers 14:18). After one accepts Lord Jesus as their Saviour, God forgives their sins as they truly repent and removes their iniquities (evil tendencies) in the transformation process which makes one more and more like Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 9:12-14). After genuinely accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, ALL sinners (alcoholics, liars, drug addicts, fornicators etc.) will be saved and transformed. Each believer is cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and receives the infilling of the Holy Spirit who renews them.



REDEMPTION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH



Because mankind is incapable of meeting God’s standard of perfection necessary to abide in God’s presence (Romans 3:19-20,23), God sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay the total debt for the believer’s sins and mercifully credits to his account Christ’s righteousness (Romans 3:21-28,5:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-21). Jesus’ gracious act of atonement was complete and covers all sin (Colossians 2:13-14; 1 John 1:9). Salvation is not based on good deeds but according to the mercy of God (Titus 3:4-5). Believers are justified by faith; it is a gift by God’s grace (Romans 4:3-8; Ephesians 2:8-9). A true, living faith will result in a desire to live a holy, loving life of good works (Ephesians 2:10; Galatians 5:6; James 2:14-26), but failure to be absolutely successful at righteous living does not negate the believer’s justified status.



If you sincerely say this prayer, your sins will be washed away, you will be redeemed to God, be saved from eternal torment and inherit the Kingdom of God:



"Dear Jesus, I am a sinner. I repent of my sins. Please forgive me and save me by your shed blood. Come into my heart. I want to receive you as my own personal Lord and Savior. Amen"



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