Thread: What do you feel is your life’s purpose?
I know it’s a very common question, and impossible to know or answer. But curious how you folks here rationalize the meaning of life. Add your age if that’s okay, for good measure For me: I’m 27, my life’s purpose (or so I think) is to build something that helps a whole lot of people have a better life. And it is to make the people around me - family, friends, strangers happier (the scale of which depends on how successfully I pull this off). Whats yours? Would love to engage on this :)
I'm 25, My purpose in life
Work :- to build something which would directly or indirectly contribute to sustainability, generate income for marginalized people.
Family:- Build a house and purchase a farmland which would be self sufficient for all our resources.
Personal:- Travel around the world and enjoy all kinds of foods and make some good friends who would be away from a call for anything.
Very interesting
Those are my 3 pillars of life as well pretty much
Just curious - why the farmland? Thats an interesting one.
Growing our own food , Fruits & Vegetables for the market too, roaming around fruit trees with lots of birds, spending quality time with all our family at one place where we can cook, play and rest.
I believe this is a luxury, people are paying higher rents for better air , to get exposed to sunlight, people are finding it hard to get chemical free food.
Farmland would be a better place which would solve all the above .
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Do you really need one?
Existence is a gift, just enjoying it should be enough.
Very true. Just being happy, enjoying the present might be it.
But I’d personally need something guiding me. A purpose helps stay sane.
Otherwise too much enjoyment can lead to some detrimental shit too
Like enjoyment is short term, purpose helps with the longer term. Wdyt?
Yea true. Moderation is important. I just meant that there may be times when you are purposeless and don't know what to do or are in a transitory state and during those times you should still strive to be happy.
VagueElbow
Stealth
3 months ago
My life purpose: Be useful. Thats it. As long I am useful to someone I have meaning on this blue dot.
Interesting. Thats a fresh take :)
I want to ask: That puts being useful to someone else above just being content with who you are, for yourself. How did you get to this realization for yourself?
VagueElbow
Stealth
3 months ago
Who am I if not useful to anything. Its not just a person. It can be plants. Animals. To this planet. We derive meaning from purpose and the purpose of being useful to something or someone is a very root level purpose that can never fade with age.
I got this realization through a series of thought experiments and disecting my thoughts and feelings by first principles to arrive at a point near this. Finally I saw one reel or youtube shorts I don't remember where one person said about just being useful. And that hit me hard as it was what I was coming to. Hence adopted it and have been relatively at ease since then.
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29F
To earn so much money that I can easily afford a 3bhk house in Mumbai's good locality and then work for a cause once I am no longer bothered about the kharchas
Haha, a very interesting one :)
Why a house though? And why specifically Mumbai?
Curious how that became your life’s purpose.
Why not travel, independence, or let’s say staying abroad or in the hills
I am from Mumbai and know that accomplishing this is actually an achievement
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40 year old woman...have accomplished everything I wanted by now with the grace of God . Have a long career which I like doing, own a home without any debt, lovely family, beautiful kids. I am self aware, unique and over the years have learnt to love and take care of myself. I can't ask for more. So I'm just flowing with the water, no particular purpose( except one which I can't share)
If you have accomplished everything you wanted, what keeps you motivated?
So happy to hear this @Rhyme4me
I wish more of us can get to where you have gotten :)
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I'm 28, my purpose in life
Work: don't really have any aspirations as such I just want to make money so that I can buy everything materialistic and beyond.
Family: Paid off around 30lakhs of my dad's debt 20 more left and maybe gift them another 50ish lakhs. Paid off my brother's loan so he's sorted on that end.
Personal: want to be left alone. I'm too old to have hobbies as such as most of my life has been a Rollercoaster. The only thing that makes sense to me is money that's it. Relationships can be bought so is love. Overall I'm a bad person I know but honestly I didn't want to be that person but I was forced to become one. Yeah pretty much.
Left all hopes...
There is no hope left.
Everything is just a piece of trash.
There's no fight left in me.
Seen people do nothing and achieve more than me. I was extremely hard working and believed that I'll only do the hard work and get the reward. But .... In this world what you show is believed to be true.
I didn't have the ability to show off the hard work.. to be precise I am so dumb in this that even when I know no one is interested in listening to my stupid, senseless words, I am writing this long paragraph. 😅
I jst want to keep dragging this life as long as possible.
No dreams, no hopes, no expectations.
Nvm! 😊
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BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
3 months ago
Why you ask such questions middle of the week
That a deep question. I guess I haven’t figured that out yet and I don’t think I will ever figure that out.
Not too important
But it can help, can be a pretty good guiding principle in life :)
I agree but I haven’t figured that out yet 😅
I am in a phase where each day is a hassle. Rarely have time to introspect and believe me I am not not student or a guy early in his career. Have a decade of experience under my belt but still life’s been hard for me so never really thought about such deep stuff although I have read Ikigai 😄
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22M, My purpose in life is to have the most number of unique experiences and explore ideas, places, and people that I can without regrets. Also to touch people lives so I am remebered.
I’m 26
Still figuring out. But i know i want to work for some social cause (NGOs etc) in future. Havent started yet. And i definitely want to read and understand our vedic scriptures. Dont want to leave this planet without this.
All the power to you. Hopefully, you can do it in a way which is super scalable and end up helping many people in need 🙏🏻
SourExcuse
Stealth
3 months ago
24 M, joined corporate last year, was feeling so lost about life from past few days and now this post pops up, wow just wow.
Family: To retire me parents as soon as possible.
Personal: Buy an iPhone and my first dslr so that I can start working on my hobby of photography and videography.
Its okay to feel lost. I hope you get whatever you want. Just keep manifesting it.
SourExcuse
Stealth
3 months ago
Thanx for the wishes 🫂
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The purpose of anyone's life is to understand how best to serve society or the universe and then act on that understanding. Plants fulfill their purpose by providing nutrition, animals contribute to the food chain, and humans, with our advanced thinking, should strive to help in some way and help the creator in sustaining the changing landscape( everyone needs help). Some contribute by caring for themselves, family, or the broader community. Others serve at a higher level, reaching masses or giving hope. Still others believe destruction is necessary to fulfill their faith. In any case, we find purpose in what we're capable of doing. The key similarity is that purpose is always outward-looking, benefiting something greater than ourselves. If you focus on yourself, you can find ways to exist, but to find purpose, look outward and see how you can contribute. Even someone picking up garbage and someone spending millions on a wedding can be fulfilling a purpose if their actions benefit society. Think rationally, and you'll see this more clearly.
Lovely thought and well written @GrouchyTrick
A world where many people think like this is the world I want to live in :)
Soros
Stealth
3 months ago
Bakchodi
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steppenwolf
Stealth
3 months ago
Reach a certain Networth that i have in mind, start a compnay of my own.
After that i will get into social causes that i believe in.
Been my thought process in a way. My coach recommended that I must not put off social causes till later. Otherwise like most, I’ll never do it
They suggested, I do something every year
I currently just donate a fixed % of my salary every year. It’s not enough, but it compounds, as my salary grows.
10% of my salary in 10 years will be something
And hopefully it’ll remind me why I started :)
steppenwolf
Stealth
3 months ago
I hope you get a 100% increment every year 🙂
Haha kids I tell you. Grow up and your purpose will soon be happiness of and with your family and friends. That’s it. Nothing more
Noctus
Stealth
3 months ago
I am currently 19 Year old
My life purpose is to become rich and space travelling
Noctus
Stealth
3 months ago
Ya I hope
We should move towards becoming a space civilization.
It sucks living in a same planet.
Even after the technological advancements happened
The core purpose of any living being is to live and pass on to the next(reproduce)
As humans have developed intelligence, we tend to quest and conquer. Conquer doesn't have to be by battling. Buying things that gives you dopamine would also be considered as Conquer for which you would have to work.
Protect your loved ones (this is for Men) as women are now more independent and care less about their partner. But yeah, we men have parents, siblings and friends as well.
Enjoy every moment whether it's bad or good.
I’ve always felt that the first line here is genuinely the most logical answer
Anyone straying away from it has lost path ( people who don’t want kids or look after a kid)
Strong opinion but troo
It's joke in the 1st book where a significant arc is to search for the meaning of life. I don't want to reveal much here because it'll take away the thrill of just reading the book to get there. But there are spoilers available online too. You'll understand.
El_Enforcer
Stealth
3 months ago
My purpose in life is to be a good mentor and not a jerk.
To not be a jerk. It makes one better than 90% of the people out there 🙏🏻
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