When we say "meaning of life", it seems to me that we are talking about goal-setting and achieving something fixed- a fixed destination or a fixed target or even a sense of certainty. But things keep changing in life, everything around us changes all the time. Even everything within us, for instance, our feelings and thoughts keep changing all the time. When everything keeps changing, how can we ever achieve something fixed in life?
I am beginning to think that "meaning of life" is a misleading statement, an overrated topic. Birth and death are inevitable. What is in between birth and death is our karma, something we have total control of. There is good karma and bad karma and we know what we have to choose. The only meaning of life is to simply live and do our karma. Most people may not accept that as a meaning of life because they will be satisfied only if they get a concrete answer which talks about reaching a target or a goal. I think reaching a goal is just a product of our karma.
If living and doing our karma sounds too obvious to be accepted as a meaning of life, then there is nothing wrong in saying "life has no meaning". I don't feel it's really necessary to find the meaning of life. Everyday I do what I have/want to do. Just like everyone else, sometimes I am happy and sometimes I get depressed. Living is acceptance- accepting what time presents you. I just have to live until I die regardless of the meaning of life.
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Yes that is a good point, perhaps the "meaning of life" is an overrated topic.
The problem here is our expectations of life. How come we think we have the right to expect anything from life anyway? Life "ows" nothing to us. We are put here by something much more superior and we are quite insignificant next to this big thing called Life. None of us really know what it is, life just is.
Probably the only thing we have control over in life is our own behaviour. There's a good quote by Socrates "It is not living that matters but living rightly."
All you've established is that "the journey is the destination" in about five times as many words...
and what do you guys think about so many theistic people, who'll quickly point, or resort to "God", to simplify, to answer the question of Meaning of Life?
very interesting writing, btw
just happened to find this blog through some online forum.
Internet is such a blessing!
NikiWonoto,
It depends on how people interpret God. There is an article about my interpretation about God and perhaps it will help you to find an answer to your question: http://mystic-paradigm.blogspot.com/2006/09/quest-for-god-what-who-where-is-god.html
Hi..How are you? Wish you well..Thank you for sharing your views and knowledges with us. Then the question that makes us ponder. Though I guess karma makes it still difficult to control, cause it seems that it's also the idea of impending results in correspondence of an individual or any living creature's deeds or experiences. That I may also realized that it's the 'WILL' that we can take control of, as making our choices to pursue matters in accordance to the actions or deeds. Thus outcomes proceed after. Whether how it may affect ourselves or others. Which can also place a certain impact into our own lives and to the lives of those related and affected as well. This process may help us acquire the learnings, enclosed with all the challenges in it. Then the varieties of circumstances that became a part of our growth and developing stages as human beings in this world.
It is within those learnings that possibly fufillments can be obtained in life. From there, that there is worth and value, then makes up with the meaning of life.
Hence its point becomes manifested through it..
See you around Berst..
Have great moments! Thank you for the wonderful thoughts too!
Sincerely jeannie kathleen@ (Knight's Rose)
Although life does seem... over-rated, fast... and ever-changing at times, some things still doremain the same... and I believe they arethhe core(essentials) of life, thus they are able to create a meaning of their own... giving the life we live... a simple, conclusified... meaning...
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