<p>This may sound depressing but... I think that death... is the purpose of living.</p>
<p>The endless Sisyphus task of pushing our hard work and effort up the steep hill of pain and torment to try and reach the final peak of happiness is always going to end up having it roll down before we reach our ultimate joy...</p>
<p>People say that when they're happy, that they could just die... or that they're ready to die... is it true that when you finally reach that state of bliss, that you are finally ready to die?</p>
<p>And if our driving force in life is to be happy, are you are ready to die when you reach it? Does that mean that our goal is a comfortable death?</p>
<p>If we were always happy, how would we gauge our emotions? Wouldn't they all just blend into a mesh of numbness obliterate the feeling of humanity from ourselves? But if we were miserable, we will either just scramble around in a pit of self-pity or be driven harder than ever to escape the pit of torment.</p>
<p>We can always trick ourselves into thinking that we're happy. We can try and release chemicals in our mind to trick it into thinking that for a brief second of time in our life that we are happy. But what is happiness? Is it even important?</p>
<p>Anyway, I guess another view is that our purpose for living is the same as any other organism's purpose: to create and spread our genes. However, unlike other organisms, we've been blessed or cursed with things like emotions, self-awareness, and an extremely well-developed brain capable of incredible things.</p>
<p>Meh. If you're trying to find happiness in materialistic things then go ahead and do that, but it's not going to work out for you once you lose those things. Try to find peace within yourself and accept that some things you will never know the true meaning behind.</p>
<p>Sharing love is my purpose in living. Jesus Christ is my example. He is so positive and forgiving. Life is far more important than dying. It is our chance to help others lives become a little more love-filled and beautiful! IMO</p>
<p>Sisyphus is probably the last thing you would want to mention for this. Death is not the point. Nothing is the point. Everyone dies, even the Universe, and the Universe might very well collapse in on it self and start the whole damn thing over again, or become a frozen …thing of whatever it is. </p>
<p>therefore, don’t be upset about not becoming famous. It really doesn’t matter in the end.</p>
<p>give animals some more credit. even i think it might’ve been a ferret, but it’s partner got like killed and it was watching over it sadly. and then there’s the dog that like sat by her owner’s grave. and probably countless more examples.</p>
<p>is it better to die happy but young or sad but old? i think a lot of people would say the former, but why do we fight so hard to keep on living when life has reached it’s nadir and there’s little hope of climbing out of the deep well then?</p>
<p>I think the purpose of living evolves as we evolve. Well actually the very concept of there being a purpose to living has itself also evolved. Just think - 20,000 years ago human language didn’t even have the capacity to ponder such a question.</p>
<p>But ok - so I think the purpose of a human life is probably tied to the larger purpose of life, the universe, etc. If one is just asking what is the purpose of his life is * to him *, well I think that question is subjective and without a definite answer (it is his choice really to decide that). But if one is asking what is the purpose of his life * to the universe * - well, then, I think we start to see how the purposes of a human life and the universe are connected. One needs to know what the universe is, and its purpose, to answer the question. But this is a question that has more of an objective answer perhaps. While the purpose of one’s own life to that person will depend on that person, the purpose of the universe should be irrespective of the thing viewing it. </p>
<p>The recognition of evolution (learning about he universe - about life specifically) indeed progressed the discussion of purpose w/r/t life. And, of course, there are more things to know - things that will elucidate the discussion even further. For example, understanding how life fits in with the rest of the phenomena in the universe, and why it arose at all. Here, there is the very interesting but unanswered question of how come the matter we are familiar with exists, and why wasn’t it all annihilated with anti matter equally, and of course there are other angles to go about it as well.</p>