Wayfarer

Simply means death is always potentially imminent. For all you know, someone is going to break into your house and shoot you to death in five minutes, or maybe you'll drop dead as a result of a heart attack in ten seconds, or maybe...well, you get the point. To me, instant gratification is the only gratification worth acknowledging. I personally can't stand the thought of spending, say, two years at college, doing a bunch of work I don't particularly want to do in order to get a "better" education so that I can eventually land myself a high-paying job, only to die before ever getting that job. Could have instead spent those two years doing things I enjoyed, living for the moment and not wasting my time working towards something that would never come. Always found it a bit aggravating how so many people claim to "live in the now" when so few people actually do.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so
absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

TheUsed2lguy

Yes, death is imminent, and life is imminent.
I could walk out the front door tomorrow, and start living that day like it was my last. I might get up, and go for an early morning jog. And then, along my jog I realize no one else has this attitude, and I don't like the world I'm in, and I don't like the way people are looking at me.
In fact I have so much disdain for our society, that I am fighting to live in it now, as a goal to become financially independent one day, so I can distance myself from society as much as possible.
If I was doing what I truly wanted to do in this moment, I would surely be living as a recluse, never going out in public, and when I did constantly mocking people for their ways. I can't think of a better word than just ways. I don't like our tao in this country. And I used to come on here all the time and just b*tch and b.itch and beotch about it. But I'm going to try to not do that anymore, I'm going to try to have a positive attitude, while understanding that our society may not be what I want, I've got to find a way to turn the tables on it, and spin it, and make it work for me.

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

...no? What? Why would it seem vain?

I'm still not sure why you're here for a reason, or to fill some funciton. And there can be a point to things even if you were put here to fulfill a point.

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“The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine”

“No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

Gentleman Johnny

"We are put here for a reason"

I think sentiments like this arise from those disillusioned with their lives as a way to counteract the bleak reality in which they exist. On the otherhand, the notion that we are put here for a reason can be championed by the same group, but in more of an attempt to say that "Oh, well, everything I do now will amount to something".


The reality of it is that those who are well off, or are happy with their lives often do not question the meaning behind existence. I'm not saying that this is the case with everyone, just my point of view. Personally, I don't think the meaning of life is worth worrying about or pondering. I'd much rather be out living life than wasting it trying to figure out it's meanings.

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man why brothers gotta act so scandalous, mad at us?
because we aint no janitors.

tkpb938

I entirely agree. No one in the can say in all honesty that they know the meaning to life. If there is one we learn it sometime after death I think.

GravitySlips

There's no universal meaning to life. People can create their own purpose, their own meaning, their own point. They can live their lives according to what they've defined for themselves, without needless speculation about some higher purpose behind human existence. We're capable of rational thought, so we must be special? Nope. That's called evolution.

If there really is some "higher purpose" then who has decided what that is? God? What is God? If there was some God entity who decided what "the point of life" is, he didn't make it clear enough for me so it's his own fault if I don't adhere to it. If he banishes me to eternal damnation because of this, then I wouldn't have been interested in worshipping him anyway.

Kevorkian Logic

there is no higher purpose, there is only us, only this, forget, regret, move on, or else your going to miss a helluva a lot in life.

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She was laughing like crazy at the trouble I'm in
Her light eyes were dancing she is insane
Schizophrenia is taking me home

TheCaster

i think the point of life is to find the point of life.. therefore there is no real point yet we all keep searching

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A soul in tension thats learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit

Lizzie

As Oscar Wilde said "No theory of life seem to be of any importance compared with life itself"

What i say is just stop worrying about what life 'means' and just live it. dont waste it

cardboard adolescent

The point of life is to keep your finger off the self-destruct switch long enough for someone else to take advantage of you.

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