What makes your life meaningful? What would you consider a successful life?

I honestly don't think life has a purpose, there is no overall objective or end goal to arrive at, all you can do is enjoy it as it goes whizzing on by.

Life is one of those things that you will never win, you can't, you can only fail and when is just really a matter of time. What does that mean in practice; that setting arbitrary goals is a waste and that you are much better served by working on the fly, rather than a target>disappointment>target cycle.

I believe we have a superior sense of self and believe that we are here for a reason when in fact there is no point at all. But I think that despite it being untrue, it still helps to believe it. It suggests that whatever you do can affect people/the world around you and create a positive change.

I'm torn between wanting to make a difference (in that case what makes my life meaningful is helping people, and that's also why I want to be a writer, to affect a lot of people from my books), and just enjoying life with friends and fun etc.

It's dependent on the person really. For me it's about my feelings and how many people I can affect for the better.


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Sometimes I think everyone has random moments when they think that there really is not much of a purpose, they just are. If you think about itATS do well to get into a good secondary school (or 11+ or another entry exam), do well at GCSEs to get into Sixth form, do well as A levels to get into uni, graduate with flying colours to get a good job, work to get a promotion, carry on working hard to have a good retirement. All your life you are working hard in order to be free many years later
That said, I think everyone needs to find a purpose otherwise, they might end up lost and not knowing what they are doing at all. You need a bit of hope to cling onto. Mine is to do veterinary because I want to help endangered species and abused animals

Yeah, need to avoid chasing dreams to the detriment of everything else but at the same time those goals are needed to be in the position you wanna be.
Sounds like an awesome job species endangerment seems to be a pretty big problem nowadays.

The people you're with, give your life some purpose. For me, a successful life doesn't mean wealth, a big expensive car, posh lifestyle etc. To me, success simply means, being able to smile, a genuine smile that is.. Being there when someone needs you, because ones life isn't his/her own, he/she shares it with the people that are part of your life, so success is simply happiness, to see others happy a successful life to me means, once old, looking back and smiling, having no regrets. People look back and thing oh I should have done that, this.. So not having any such regrets is success..having someone by your side who loves you for who you are is success, hence a successful life to me means living, not just existing
To me an unsuccessful life means ending up alone, not being able to smile, not having someone next to you at the dinner table, not having someone there to tell when you have good news. An unsuccessful life means not going beyond your limits, there are many possibilities out there, not exploring them, and sticking to one thing for the rest of your lives, I think is a failure in ones life.
Money comes and goes, those things don't matter at all. Money is but a substance, happiness isn't. Hence an unsuccessful life is, only existing, not living.


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What do ya mean by the first 2 lines?
Yeah, most people tend to mention the 2 of helping and happiness!
Seems TSR isn't very materialistic

Maybe i would be materialistic if i didn't feel so lonely all the time..

I basically mean that humans think that there is a reason they are on this Earth, and that there is a purpose for living. No one ever says dogs are here for a reason, we come and go in this life and we don't matter in the long run. It hurts people to think that their lives are meaningless so we create this illusion that there is a bigger picture and we are made to have a meaningful life. In reality i think it's just because our brains are more evolved (evolution, nothing more) and we have the ability to think these things.

I don't know if that's more confusing, but that's what i believe
Obviously not everyone thinks this of course, i'm generalizing.