Do Your Life Have Any Meaning?

[goodlife]

Take a man in his 80’s thinks: ‘My life is nearly over. It’s gone so fast. So little is left. Where did it all go? What did it mean? It’s all behind, nothing’s ahead. Except the grave. Yes oblivion. How pointless it all was! No wonder the cynic says, “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

‘Well, I lived a full life, you may say. Supposedly this means death is now acceptable. But does a full life that is past make dying easier to accept? Or does it make it harder? Would it not be easier to leave an empty life than a full one? No one says, “I’m so happy I’m going to kill myself!

[dunnitall]

Does it matter...life is planned anyway...

[Baldric]

Surely you mean 'Does' not 'Do'
Please try harder!

[sandyRoe]

WE shall pass from our exile in this valley of tears, where we spend a great deal of our time mourning and weeping, to our true home in Heaven.
Having said that, I'm not saying I can't wait...

[Canary42]

Ignore baldric, stop trying altogether.

[vulcan42]

Instead of starting yet another meaningless thread goodlife, why don't you return to the one entitled "Bible" and answer the question naomi asked at 07:44 this morning?

[dave50]

Why do some people try to analyse what life is all about and what it all means? It's pure chance we have developed into what we are today. We are born, we live then we die, the end. There is no point in trying to make your mark in the world or change it because the world will end one day and all this will no longer exist and will be as though we were never here so what's the point of analyzing it?
My advice is to enjoy life as much as you can while you are here because you only get one go and don't take it seriously.

[gness]

Oh gosh...yes....☺

[Old_Geezer]

Does any life have meaning ? One might as well ask for the meaning of tea.

But regardless of that discussion; if one has lived a 'full life' one has fewer regrets, so that should make things easier. And many will have found they are deteriorating and thus willing to accept a departure having achieved that which they reasonably could whilst more able. It is one thing to find acceptance of the inevitable knowing one has done what one could/wished; quite another to opt to voluntarily cut short that which one still enjoys. So the thought that one doesn’t choose to go out on a high is not really applicable.

[SirOracle]

Vulcan It is not just Naomi who is awaiting an answer from our would be spiritual adviser. There is a veritable queue all waiting.

[goodlife]

dave50 -But I see some here are very sensitive about receiving advice.

It’s it the miserable that resort to suicide? Yesterday’s full stomach doesn’t comfort today’s empty one. And what seemed meaningful during life often doesn’t seem so important as death draws near.

[Baldric]

Confucius he say ^^^

[sandyRoe]

When you hear the rustle of the leathery wings of the Dark Angel very little will seem of much importance.

[SirOracle]

Goodlife When can we expect to get answers from you to our straightforward questions ???

[goodlife]

I thought you knew all.

[Peaspeculiars]

//'...But does a full life that is past make dying easier to accept? Or does it make it harder? Would it not be easier to leave an empty life than a full one?...'\\

Nobody can tell you this apart from someone who is literally seconds from death.

[naomi24]

//Do Your Life Have Any Meaning?//

Yours clearly doesn't - but you hope your death might.

[solvitquick]

GL,
What is the meaning of "meaning"?
SIQ.

[x-ray]

The meaning of life surely is 42

[atalanta]

Try existentialism. What it boils down to is that there is absolutely no meaning to life whatsoever. It is, as Sartre and his cronies declared, "Absurde" or meaningless.
But anyone who accepts this meaninglessness is at liberty to give to life whatever meaning s/he likes. You can be an atheist existentialist, a christian existentialist, a buddhist existentialist, a pagan existentialist - or whatever. You just have to say, " I impose my own meaning on life, so I choose to believe - - abc or xyz. So there".
I have to say I have tried it, but I can't get past the meaninglessness bit. Which is where I quite contentedly stick.
I don't feel life has to have a meaning, except the ultimate, basic one of procreation.

[Peaspeculiars]

Life is far too short to spend hours pondering over it's meaning.
Be good to yourself and to others and try not to ruin the planet in which we live or those surrounding it for future generations. Be peaceful wherever possible but stand up for those who are not able to stand up for themselves. And enjoy a persons love if you have it, but don't envy it if you don't.
And if that isn't good enough way to live, then I am failing at life miserably.