What is the meaning of life?

Happiness & to live without regrets.

Or failing that 42 :o)

Life is meant to be beautiful and a gift of God and that's how it should be taken. Out of trillions and trillions of species only mankind is the one that could do something useful. If you do good deeds in 84,00,000 of your previous births, then you get to be born as a human being. None of us should waste this short span of life in quarrels or arguments. Rather, we should all try to live as much as we can happily and meaningfully. There is no comparison of mental satisfaction and happiness that is realized in helping someone out. You should do all the lively things you wanted to do as long as they are moral. You should fulfill all your duties including marrying, raising a child, helping the mankind, helping poors, etc. Lastly, but the most important, always be happy. There are moments in everybody's life where one might feel frustrated due to the worldly circumstances, but one should look back and out of the box to see that they have been sent to earth as a human being only because they have done good deeds in all their previous lives and they should live every instant of it with happiness. It doesn't matter if you don't have large sums of money. What matters is how happy you are? If you know how to be happy under any circumstances, there is nobody on this earth that can make you unhappy. I enjoy life everyday and every second and am greatful to God for giving me the life of a human being. I won't give this life for anything, except if it saves, my daughter's, my wife's, or my brother's, my sister's, or my parent's lives. Help others and in return get happiness is the sole meaning of life.

If you die and realise that your life was pointless, you have failed. The meaning of life is to live it in such a way as to prevent you discovering this fact on your deathbed. Make a difference to other people, by actions, charity, guidance or love, and you will discover that the reward for these actions, when considered in the long term, is the meaning of life.

It's a simple algorithm:

IF meaing of life is known THEN

follow it

ELSE

try find meaning of life

repeat

the meaning of life is to make your parents happy so it seems to me that is the only thing stoping me from killing my self