Is There a Point to Finding Meaning in Life?

I never really thought about it that way, but I guess my life does have a meaning of sorts . . . Oh well.

You don't see animals asking themselves that question. We just happened to evolve to the point where we can get an ego and the ability to analyze. Life has no meaning, you make that meaning up yourself based on what you like and dislike. It's all an act of closing yourself in your own little world and rules, unable to break away from them.

Imo its because people want to find a reason to everything. "Why" has been a force that drives a lot of things. "Why", something all people want to answer and as long as theirs existence theirs gonna be someone asking why and their going to demand an explonation.

I believe people should be more focused on finding the meaning in their own lives, as opposed to the meaning of life itself.

Life is about living. It's as simple and complicated as that. People should stop trying to nail down one absolute answer and ask themselves "What is living, to me?"

By actively trying to find your own answer to that question, you have in fact, answered it.

Oh, this is an easy one, coming from a guy who wants to find life's meaning.
I'm really too bored to do anything else....=+=...

Well that's not always true, I guess there can be other things to think about, but the curiosity of it is intriguing to me. It almost expands into "What's my purpose in this world" and "What should I be doing with my life". As you just finished your last conversation, the meaning of life could be puppies and fun. Then again, you could be destined to save the world. We don't know... so we look for the answer. XD

Well, you can have all the fun you want and not caring about meaning of being alive, but at the end you will still ask that question, whether it's tomorrow, next week, next year, or even when you are 70 years old. Well, at least, 99% of people will, and you may be one of the 1%.
And you also said life is fun, there you go. Your meaning of life: to have fun.

Is There a Point to a Point to Finding Meaning in Life?



I made a new topic for you.

IMHO, we're gonna live for about 100 years. That's a damn long time while you're living.
Rather than spending 100 years on nothing, I would prefer if I could find a purpose, thus dedicating my life to it, rather than seemingly waste all of it.

In my humble opinion people feel a need to find a meaning in their lives to validate their existence. A rather simple example of this would be a quick association. "Why do eating utensils exist?" The answer is simply, "to eat with." It's an object with a purpose, hence it's existence is justified. People often see the world through a strangely utilitarian prospective, assigning value to tangible, finite things. Applying that mentality to something as abstract as a human life, be it the individual asking the question or another party causes an internal logic loop so to speak. Without purpose, according to logic, an object, individual, what have you, should not exist. In order to justify human existence we search for a meaning behind our existence, otherwise logically humanity should not exist. It's the schism between abstract and tangible that causes the desire to assign meaning to life, regardless of the conditional existence of said meaning.

I was reading this and it got me wondering if i even wanted to find a meaning in life because i wanted to live simple without all this questioning why im here and all that stuff but then i realised that that is my meaning in life.

I just wanna live.

Meaning in life? Well what's the point really? I think this was mentioned before, but for some reason, you want to stay alive. Therefore, people search for the meaning in that, the desire to remain a living being.

I think that's the simple answer to it.

I think the real challenge in life isn't for you to find meaning. I believe the challenge is to be Open. Being open to letting that meaning, whatever it may be, find you, and accepting it, whatever it is.


That's how I see it anyway.

people don't need to find "the meaning of life". All they need to find is a reason to live

The will to live is reason enough in life? :d

I personally feel that it would fill the void inside of me if I knew the meaning of it all.

Well, as the movie/character said.

"Whats is all about?" -Alfie

You'll never figure it out, if all you ever do is ask that question.

You have to live Life, in order to find out what it means to you.

This isn't a Video Game, or some Interactive Storybook.

You can't embark on a quest, slay a few dragons, and then some wizened mage tells you the answer to it all.

It all becomes clear, when it's all over.

One can find meaning to make themselves feel better, but other then that, there is no reason to have meaning. Lots of people go through there whole life without meaning but still have a very wounderful life. Personally I have no meaning in my life and I see no meaning coming to me, I enjoy life enough not to care about what my meaning is.