Is life really worth living?

Life seems pointless and not worth living until you find your place in life. When you have someone or something to live for, you wouldn't want to die. It's hard to see that there a point to one's existense when everything seems to be going wrong, or when one is exhausted from everyday monotony and reeps no rewards. But with a rewarding career or hobby one can feel fulfilled. With a job that offers direct help to people, one feels important and needed. With family and friends, one doesn't feel alone and feels loved and accepted. We live because we're born, we don't chose when and how. If we find happiness, then we enjoy life and want to continue living it. If we have something or someone to life for, we want to live. So there's no point of killing ourselves. Life isn't just about going from point A to point B. It's the space in between that we're looking at. It's the journey, and everyone has their own unique one. Some better than others. Being created doesn't mean you have to be destroyed asap. The definition of a living thing is something made up of at least one cell, taking in nutrients, expelling waste, responding to stimuli, growth, reproduction, and maintaining homeostasis as a whole. So we have pretty big to do list, just because we exist :)we can't just kill ourselves, even bacteria do more than that. So what's the meaning of life? I have no idea, but I'll work on trying to find my meaning :)

Well, you are not saying anything I haven't thought, so if you're crazy, I am, too. I continue living despite it all by ignoring the world at large. I seldom watch national news and never international because I am just not interested, unless it's something remarkable like some disaster that catches my attention. I have noticed that regardless of what's going on outside my immediate area it has never affected me in anyway, so I don't care who's in office or who we're at war with, etc. Especially who we're at war with. Calling the invasions we do today wars is laughable. If you can count the numbers and name the bodies of everyone who died each day; it is not a war. I think that even the media supports the view that little matters in the long term. Have you noticed how some story will grab their attention and they'll flog it and push it for however long they can and then something else will happen and the first one will disappear from all reporting; as if it never happened. You never know the outcome or the resolution, if any. It's just not important anymore. Because of this rather insular attitude I get my pleasure and value from the things I do each day. Caring for the animals with whom I live and any others I can reach. (I feed numerous wild creatures daily.) Giving pleasure to my children, who are grown, gives me pleasure and keeping up with what's going on in their lives is also interesting to me. But you are right. Eventually every body fails and I have known since I was 12 that if I lived long enough for that to happen, then I would kill myself in some nonpainful and noninvasive way. I have already decided upon the method, which requires no tools and no assistance, only the time remains uncertain. One should always remember the advice of Epicurus, who I paraphrase here, when life ceases to be a pleasure the only alternative for a thinking person is to end it, and he did.

The point of living is taking the life your parent gave you and making something out of it. Have you ever heard the expression live it up? Well thats what youre supposed to do. Get good grades,get a job, get married, go to college. There's a reason to live

That's why you have to make the most of it, enjoy life to the fullest so that when your time comes you can die with a smile on your face reminiscing over your achievements, and not necessarily financial achievements cos your money is not going with you but like fun or crazy things that you did.

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Life is what you can grab, and what hits you when you aren't looking.

There is pain, suffering betrayal, death.

There is also joy, victory, love, transcendence.

The mix you get is, to a great deal, determined by the beliefs you choose to harbor.

Here's a set of concepts that you don't have to believe, yet can use to create joy, and victory.

Here is a site with an introduction to the concepts of making lemonade out of lemons, improving learning, relationships, health, living better, and creating peace, happiness, and success by using your own abilities. It even includes links to support groups of people who can help you learn how to win because they have.

http://gshpower.wordpress.com/

I feel the same way. Everything seems pointless sometimes. After all...aren't we all just stardust? Work work work to buy useless crap and then work work work. An then something happens in your life that's so great and beautiful and then that fades again to nothing... And then work worn work to buy useless crap that some underpaid minor made in India or something an get hired with it and then the cycle repeats.

Each one of us is created by God ( other may call it other names) for a specific purpose; we are not an accident.

There is a very good book that I read which changed my outlook in life. Title : The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. The first thing that caught my eye in the cover page is this "What on Earth Am I Here For?"

That is a very good question. If you don't believe in God I guess your perspective is absolutely logical. My advice is start looking for the answers that connect everything together. You'll find out why you're living if you do. There is one answer that connects everything together, look around and you'll see what I'm talking about.

hey i know life can be so crappy sometimes and u just want to die then and there but the truth is it won't help i wish it could but like everyone said live life to it's fullest do what u have always dreamed of and grab each day and have fun.

Mine is. Only you can say if yours is.

What's the point of eating then? Have you stopped eating? (I'll bet not...and I'll bet you probably won't).

It's your life, your choice and your business. I don't advocate suicide in most cases, and I don't in your case, but I do believe in individual rights.