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writes: I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. I thought maybe reading other people's raison d'etre might help me figure my own. So does anyone here know why you exist? Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (19 July 2009): This is verified as being by the original poster of the questionThank you all for your answers. They gave me a lot to think about.
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reader, MonksDaBomb  +, writes (19 July 2009):
 You know, I've often heard a person ask this question: "what is the meaning of life" and I could never really think about what the meaning is for me.
I guess, first and foremost, is to be the best Christian I can be - to serve God and spread His Word. It is extremely difficult to do, but I try my best.
Another thing I have noticed is when you do something nice for someone, it just snowballs from there. Please spare me as I explain with a story during my high school years:
I have been fascinated with sign language - was part of the sign language club and took classes. One class, we went on a field trip where we went out for breakfast (it was the first class of the day) but the entire time we could not talk; only sign. There were a good dozen or so of us plus the teacher. Diagonally across from us was this older gentleman, alone, just drinking coffee - must have been in his 70s or 80s. He kept eyeing us and left in the middle of our meal. Our teacher went to go pay the bill and was touched to find out that older gentleman paid our entire bill - he told the waitress that he felt sorry for "all those deaf children." It was such a generous act that I was touched beyond belief (still am to this day as you can tell - it happened 8 years ago and I have never forgotten it) and I spent the rest of that day on cloud nine, helping fellow students with books and stuff and making their days better and they'd reciprocate the offer with other students.
It's the simple things in life that make everything great. I often think of myself as the luckiest girl in the world as I think of all that I'm grateful for: I can see, hear, walk, talk, feel, I graduated from college, I'm smart enough to have a decent job that I like to do, i have a roof over my head and food on the table, clothes on my back. In this hectic world, sometimes we all just have to stop what we're doing, take a deep breath, and just be thankful for how lucky we are.
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reader, holmar +, writes (19 July 2009):
I think we are here to first of all serve God. God wants us to love each other and help each other. There is a verse that ends ...but the greatest of these is love. That doesn't mean that you love everyone like you love your child or spouse, but that you care about others in general and do your best to believe the best in mankind and to help others. In addition, to raise our children to be kind, compassionate and loving towards others too. Going into my personal beliefs, I think we are put on this earth to learn lessons, experience grief and loss as well as happiness that comes from just living and doing good. I think the more loss you experience and overcome, the stronger person you become. In addition, what would make you happy if you were to pass tomorrow? Would you be happy with your life? Would you feel like you did good things, were helpful and kind to others, and at peace with God and yourself? That is part of "Erikson's Stages" and it's the stage we are supposed to reach as we near the end. If you meet this, then you will be content when you pass, if not, then you will be afraid and unhappy. So, you get that way through helping others, overcoming adversity, basically believing you have made the world a better place in general and that the world was better off with you then without you. That's my take. We are here to learn. And one more thing I want to add. I also think that we pick our own destiny before we get here, in order to learn certain lessons in life and that if we don't learn them, we will come back again and again until we do, and we slowly get closer and closer to being more like God hopefully with each lifetime until we don't have to come back anymore because we have gotten as close as we can (that's also where the word "old souls" comes from I believe). So those who pick the harder lives, like those with MS or cancer, or chronic illness, or mental illness, or a lot of hardships, homeless people, alcoholics, if they overcome them or learn other life's lessons just from being in that position, like putting less value on possessions, then they will move up the ladder quicker than someone who predetermined that they were going to have an easy life. They will move a little slower. So you people with hard lives, would be the stronger ones, but you must overcome them or become at peace in order to truly become more like God. So, I think we predetermined everything, and that we have lived in heaven before we ever came here. And love, peace, morality, compassion, resilience, forgiveness (not the same as forgetting and putting yourself in a vulnerable position-forgivness is about letting go so YOU don't become bitter), all the other things we learn, in most every main religion, are what bring us closer to God. So, then everyone you meet is here on his own path with his own predetermined obstacles, but he/she still makes choices as to what to do about it or how to react. It kind of makes me think a little differently. ANyway, that's MY take on it all.
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reader, anonymous, writes (19 July 2009): Whether or not things go as I want them, whether or not I am happy, I live to see that other people are. I live to TRY to make this world at least a little bit better. To be a good influence, to be well-influenced, so raise a moral, happy family one day, to change someone's life so that they can see some good in the bad..
I live to take on what's thrown at me in a positive manner so that I can prepare for harder things ahead.. I live knowing that people are judgeing me and trying to become comfortable with that and just be who I am. I live to to love and have fun.. Life is just life.. I suppose it doesn't really matter what it's meaning is.. all you have to do it live without destroying your integrity and in the end, i believe you'll be happy.. even if nothing good happened.. at least on your deathbed you can say "well... I never lost myself in all that mess. I am who I wanted to be and that's a life worth living."
... I don't know.
~Sy.
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reader, ugh101 +, writes (19 July 2009):
 I feel that i am her to help people. I always was the one who you could tlk to. I want to counsel and help those who mentaly need someone to talk to. I am here for my friends and family. I am here so as life unfolds infront of me ,and others, i can sort it out and make sence of it all. And help them guide themselfs to a better place of happiness.
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reader, Israelrb +, writes (19 July 2009):
Why i live, i live to succeed to bring meaning to my life, if i lived to have a regular life were i do nothing but work and go home or school my life would be useless without meaning, i live to make myself great only when i feel i have become great i will know why i live
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reader, DLover  +, writes (19 July 2009):
I exist to experiment hapiness and pleasure. This has a lot of implications, but that's the general idea.
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reader, anonymous, writes (19 July 2009): I exist to please God and to bring honor and glory to His name. I have fallen way short of my mission by trying to make my own pleasure the center of my life. That hasn't worked very well for me, so hopefully soon I will get back on the right path to the reason for my existance.
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reader, bobbles32 +, writes (19 July 2009):
 We are just organisms, we have no specific "life mission" other than to die. Before society became so complex, humans hunted, ate, and slept. That's it. They had no "God", no religion, and no mass murder machines. Life is what you do while you're alive, be it forgotten or not. Your life is about making yourself and others happy. It's making an improvement in the quality of living issues that most humans now face, because of our own systems. Don't waste your time looking for a game plan, just live it.
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reader, anonymous, writes (19 July 2009): I wanted to post this is an article but I never got the chance/forgot. Read all of it, and it will bring you clarity to the answers you seek.
http://www.thebecompany.nl/meaningless.htm
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reader, anonymous, writes (19 July 2009): With religion aside, there is no default meaning to life. The "meaning" to life is what you make of it. We all start out as a blank canvas - meaningless by itself. To live means we fill that blank canvas with the sketching of our lives. All the experiences we encounter and interact with fill up this canvas that makes up who we are, that come together mechanically to become what we represent. At the end of our journeys, others who have interacted with us will pass bits and pieces of those experiences to others. Memories will become diluted as knowledge is passed down. Stories of past deeds become wisdom or simply, tales in the big scheme of things. My raison d'etre is what I make of it. Others who enter my world become a part of that reason. Those that connect with me become a part of me and a part of me, become a part of them. My parents gave me life and I will create the story that goes with it.
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