to show god that we are worth going to heaven, but never forget to enjoy your life!!!

What's the Point of Living? By Jess (Monash Uni) It was getting dark and I sat alone behind the big pillar outside the State Library. School had finished a few hours ago, and I had stayed behind for extra tuition classes in the city. After peering around to make sure no one was watching, I lit a cigarette. It was a little habit I had newly picked up. I didn't want anyone to see me. Here I was, a star year 12 student, getting great marks at school, a prominent student leader, heaps of friends, all set for a bright future... Yet, I had this deep sense of dissatisfaction and loneliness. Cool, calm and collected on the outside, but feeling lost and alone within. I thought smoking would make things better. If people from school saw me smoking in a hidden corner like this, I bet they would talk, they would judge. My parents would be so disappointed in me. As I sat there puffing away, there was a recurring thought inside my head - what's the point in living? Is there any meaning to my life? I felt so empty inside. Things started to change midway through year 12, when I met Dom. He helped me to see everything in a different light. There was something different about this guy. He had this innocence and joy that I hadn't seen in other people before. So I asked him where he got that from. He told me his joy came from having a personal relationship with Jesus. A personal relationship? With Jesus? That made me curious. I mean, I had grown up hearing Bible stories at church, about how God loves me and Jesus died for me... I accepted it intellectually, but I felt it was all so irrelevant to my life. What on earth was Dom on about? That really made me think so I was determined to find out more. When first year uni started, I went along to some meetings run by a campus Christian group called Student Life. I began reading the Bible more seriously and discovered some amazing truths that have since turned my life and perspective upside down. I've learnt that God created me and loves me intensely. He promises that He has an amazing plan and purpose for my life. I came to realise that in the past, I had been living entirely on my own strength, my own ability. I was chasing hard after materialism, relationships and my own selfish ambitions. So no matter how much I had, how well I was doing in school or how hard I tried in everything, I still felt dissatisfied and miserable. It was only when I started focussing on Jesus as the centre of my life that I have found my purpose and meaning to life. In the last few years, I've come to know Jesus more intimately through reading the Bible, which is God's Word, and speaking to Him through prayer. In my heart, there is now an overflowing joy and satisfaction. And I'm never looking back. www.everystudent.com/au/wires/jess.html

There is no point. Life just IS. But, having self-awareness and intrinsically creative minds, humans have been able to come up with some wonderful things to DO with life!

There is no point in living. We're born, we die. Living is that boring shit in between the two. Of course, it's your obligation not to make it boring. I've often wondered this qestion to myself. I mean, why go to school? Why go to work? In fifty years I'll be dead and everything I've accomplished will be for nothing. Is the point of living to make a mark on the world so you can be remembered by future generations? Is that all life is? One big contest to see who can be remembered? If that's the case, all those people no one knows about or remembers lived and died for nothing. Meh, who knows.

My point of living? my life sucks, and just when you think it can't suck anymore, it does! I have been asking about this qeustion for a long time, i like the story of Jess, but only the first part though, i always sneak out and lit a cigarette, and of course hide this lil habbit from my parents and fds...i always wonder, why am i still alive and why i even exist in this world? Mister Sadistic, i am totally with you, and Wendora, great pt!

Sharing love. I know that love is a word that means different things to different people. In this case I mean the kind of feeling that is in the core of a person for another.

For a great answer to that, read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. You'll never ask that question again! ;-)

Chocolate, fine wine, and pretty girls. =)

To reproduce, spread your genes and hope they survive.

My perspective of life is complex but yet so easy at the same time.I think living should be way easier than it is today,we shouldnt have to be working our asses off,i mean come on essentially you only live once,what more can you askk for.but then again theirs that big question,Whats the point of living..Stop and think for a second their are a million and one questions Us as humans dont think will ever be answered,such as why do i feel the way i do,why do i dream,how is the world in such critical condition as it is today.Is it diffrent mind settings that effect everything around us,or are we just tangled up in a knot thats never ending because we are to afraid of what others think to even try to make a diffrence....By any chance is it money?Is money what drives us to do what we do today,If so thats a weak explanation for people to live in poverty,I think that no matter where your from who your known as and what you think of yourself as shouldnt be reflected by such a thing called MONEY..it''s not real..what is real is the way you come out to this world,and your opinion should count no one should be left out ever in any type of situation.You only live once remember.so i say we change the world and make it worth living for everyone.people say it's not possible..anything and everything is possible the more changes you make that will affect even a single person in a positive way..will show you that lifes worth living..and then theirs that question again..Whats the point on living..WELL YOULL JUST HAVE TO SEE WHAT YOU MAKE OF IN LIFE AND IF YOU RESPECT ALL ASPECTS IN LIFE IN A GOOD MANOR THEN...youll just have to wait for a good reward in the after life..but just rememberr you have an affect on anybody no matter who you are.live your own way love the right way make a change not for fame..but for the people who dont think life is worth living...let them know that what they have is a very precious thing and that no matter what theve been threw.in time if you want change you can find..even though life is "unfair" it works wonders when you put forth effort to make it better for yourself...Im Javier E macias im 16 and thats my persepective on the point of living...But the question still remains..WHATS THE POINT OF LIVING

there is no point, no divine plan, just 2 mammals got together and had some sweaty circus sex and you were born...so we spend the next so many years wandering around trying to convince ourselves there is some grande plan, some ultimate answer to the meaning of life, all the while searching through the chaotic series of weird and random (and often mundane) events that will soon enough become less frequent as you exit childhood and enter adulthood (which is filled with more chaos and mundane events than anything else) until one day you meet some other person who decides that they are as lost and weird as you and you decide that together at least you can be lost and confused and search for some answer together (and probably make some other little monkeys of your own to mess up and confuse), maybe even consider each other to be the answer to your life..unless of course the other person finds another answer to their life and his name is jeff and he is a lawyer, but life goes on, even more chaotic and mundane filled with inumerable moments lost standing in lines and traffic lights and getting the wrong order whenever you ask for no ketchup on your burger. Until one day you get some weird disease (even though you ran 3 miles a day and took a multivitamin everyday) but then you die...but since you are here, might as well make the best of it, besides, if you did find out the meaning to life you might not like the answer anyways!

To realise that humans are the worst-off species because we can ask that question. A dog doesn't ask this queston because he does not possess the power to ask 'why?'; the dog just lives. Just because we possess the power to ask 'why?', does not mean we have a reason to be here.

I wonder that myself three or four times a day. We were never asked to be born but we have no choice but to die. It just seems impossible somedays to think of how people build up their lives and have great times and then you wonder why, at least I do sometimes.

the meaning of life is to have had a life with meaning.

To tell death to fuck off!

to be happy and learn new things and new experiences!!

The answer to this question is a question itself. What's the point in not living?

To pay taxes !

what is the point of living? why would you ask such a question? The answer to your question is make a 23 chromozome contribution to the human race and then and only then will you find the true meaning of life and if at that time you don't understand then your kid will. or something like that. cause the life we live has nothing to do with us but every thing to do with our children or kid. Our life doesn't belong to us. Its the Banks and our kids to do with it or what cash they can get from it as they please or get. lol lol

Orgasms.

It's up to you to decide on a meaning for your life to have.

For me its my kids

life is a struggle to the end - repetitious ,with usually no time to enjoy -- work everyday to stay alive,what IS the point...................

I suppose there will be a point when the human race grows up a little and stops acting so imature. We haven't yet evolved to our true potential. We are the pioneers! There's no point now. But with some time and luck we will see the point and give it our full attention. But right now, we're better off dead.

to have fun before you move on

for stuff..n stuff.

It's easy.........The purpose of living is to have fun. Now, that needs to be defined. I can't have fun if my family is suffering or my friends need help. So, it's a building up of joyous experiences amid the chaos. Hugs, Dutchie

To find happiness in our lives. It doesn't matter how.

Fulfilment and growth

At the end of the day folks, it don't matter what clour you are, what education you have, how much money you have, if your married or single, if you come fromn a fab family or no family at all, whether your as thick as shit or a genius, fat or thin, pretty or ugly, a bloody alien, dog, seahorse or human-being,what religion you are,any of it, no- one in goverment, science lab, on the streets, god or otherwise, no body anywhere has came up with THE answer of the point og living.....NO ONE can definalty say that they no why we are here. no one has proof. and you know what guys i have explored and read alot of theories and the more you research the more cinfusing it gets..... at the end of the day, we probaly aint never gonna find out, so why the fuck worry about it.... find your own purpose that makes you happy and try to lead your life how you want but still considerate to others. we cannot be perfect all the time. we are humans and we sont have all the answers yet. because if we did then life wouldnt be interting. it wouldt be called living would it? if it was meant to be then we know. but it's not for whatever reason so you know what.... go help somebody, jump off a cliff (preferably bungee jump) swim with dolphins, have kids, buy a house, be homless, eat a coakroach, travel the world, write a poem, paint, walk, sing, love , be depressed what ever the hell you want live it experience it give up or keep fighting ..... but dont waste anytime in doing what you want or feel or neeed at the time. we are humans we think and feel and we are here for whatever reason that it may be, but we havent been told yet so until then ... fuck it and do whateve you want or need to do... just get it off your chest and be gtrateful for the happy and utter shit times!! this is what makes us us, and the only thing i know, is i never have met anyone who is the same! similar traits, etc but nver the complete same. so e whoever you want or can be! good luck!

we were created to love the one who made us God and to love and help each other for the life in eternity

stop being a fucking sad case, its just a selfish question. people die everyday not wanting to and your talking about not being alive. SHOW SOME FUCKING RESPECT WIIL YOU.