We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?
People in the future will wonder the thing. Kind of like a cosmic rickroll
I’m just hoping we help each other to achieve our goals before we go
All I know is that I’d rather be here than not be here. It doesn’t get much deeper than that for me.
I prefer not having a meaning of life.
Imagine having a real purpose. Then the question would still be “why”, but you’d also have that obligation to do.
It’s up to you to create your own purpose in life.
In my view, connection with others and the happiness and joy we can find in that is the reason for living.
It’s what makes the world so terrifying that there are so many broken people who just want to hurt and dominate others and have no care for depth of connection. Because they are wasting their lives on accumulation of power and are painfully obviously deeply sad and broken people.
Sam Altman has his own issues, but he’s dead-on when talking about someone like Elon Musk:
“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity. I feel for the guy,” Altman said. “I don’t think he’s, like, a happy person. I do feel for him.”
So find people, find connections with them, make your life about your connection with others. That’s my suggestion. Love is scary, but also freeing. Will that be a struggle with the obligations we face? Sure, but not impossible, especially if you do your best to set clear boundaries and focus on your family and friends as opposed to the soul crushing job you work to be able to take care of yourself.
One of my favorite films is Dead Man. It’s a “buddy movie” about the importance of friendship and the unlikely places we find it. Two men who have been rejected by their respective societies find friendship, trust, and kinship in each other. I think this may be worth a watch for you.
You are the Universe experiencing itself.
Brilliant.
Your most fundamental motivations are inherently irrational/instinctual, but once you know what they are you can pursue them more deliberately. Nobody can decide for you what the meaning of your life is, you have to discover it through experience and introspection.
can you tell us about yours? what is the meaning of your life? I know we may not resonate with it and think it’s worthless but to you it has a meaning
Curiosity.
Plenty happens after you die. You’re just not there for it.
Does there need to be a point? We eat because we’re hungry, sleep because we’re tired, live because we’re instinctively apposed to death.
The point is there is no point. No higher order. We’re an accident of physics.
Live your life its the point of living. not working all day in the best days of your life.
Your time its all you have. don’t waste it.
…or do ! but knowingly !
There are two types of thinking about it:
- There is no point in living. We are doomed to get into the grave, and eventually be forgotten forever.
- There is no point in living. No higher order, no higher purpose, no higher authority. We are free to live our lives, to explore, to insert any meaning whatsoever into it. We are forging our own destiny.
And, protip, you’re not going to be around for option 1 anyway.
To make evil men and women powerful.
There’s nothing after this, so make the most of what you get. Try leave your corner of the world a slightly better place then when you were born.
Why aren’t you creating meaning?
Without a god, there’s only one option left for anyone with agency - us.
The fuck are you doing whining about it? Time’s wasting and you don’t have much. Get out there and build something that matters.
