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Here is my experience my friend,
I've always had life goals of what I wanted to achieve, even since I was roughly 17, I'm currently 24; Here they were:
-Enjoy, and be passionate about my career
-Always have time for my friends
-Been open to new experiences and adventures.
Since then I've changed my Major in college over 11 times, gone to 4 different colleges, and after having one of my best semesters I recently decided to put school on the back burner. When I was 19 years old and my first year in college I lost two of my close friends, due to street racing and drugs, This made me realize I needed to spend as much time as a possibly could with the friends I had, which made my studies suffer and caused me to party a little too much. After getting put on academic probation due to failing all my classes, since I only went to the first day of class, I was fired from my server job, broke up with two girls I loved; I decided to get away and got a job working as a Ski Lift operator. This job was honestly the reason I feel I found purpose and re-ignited my passions, and finding what I truly love. I worked 40hrs a day working by myself on a beautiful mountain called June Mountain in Mammoth Lakes, CA. With soooo much time by myself I was able to clear my head of the bullshit people put in and broke down everything I truly wanted out of life. Even after this year of my life passed I came back and still didn't know exactly what I wanted I knew I wanted to be involved with video games of some sort of way. I got straight A's and 1-2 B's for the year with my major being Computer Gaming Science, Which I just decided to drop out to pursue Pro Gaming, after getting partnered with twitch.tv and getting Accepted into the Razor Gaming House. Granted I've never dedicated so much time to any one thing in my life, But if this is called work, I FUCKING LOVE WORK!
I'm not saying I'm currently making millions of dollars, but when you realize YOU WOULD DO YOUR JOB FOR FREE, is when you know what you'd like to do!
Before I stream everyday I watch a motivation video, and I've become addicted to Tony Robbins, and he seems to sum this up great in 5 points.
1. Raise Your Standards
2. Change Your Limiting Beliefs
3. Model Strategies That Work
4. Intensify Your Emotions
5. Give Much More Than You Expect to Receive
I wish you the best my friend
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I don't understand why there has to be a meaning to life. Just do whatever life takes you to...
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Meet aliens, travel in space, and become a space cowboy.
That's one part of my idea the meaning of my lfie. Besides that i'm still figuring it out.
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You should lie down on your bed, and start thinking about everything which has ever interested you. Perhaps you will find something which will get you all tingly and a bit excited, and maybe then you can start somewhat forming your own idea of the meaning of life.
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"What is the meaning of life?I don't know but we might as well do civilization while we're at it" - Eddie Izzard
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Dont know what the meaning of life is, but what u should aim for is happiness whatever makes u happy, but u should be considerate of the people around you, and try and share the happiness.
Life is boring u if u hate everything and love nothing
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Grab two cartons of cigarettes, some money, clothes. Go out, walk, hitchhike, meet people, talk to people, learn their stories, tell yours. Its puzzling how much you learn from a two week trip
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On August 08 2012 16:12 OptronX wrote:
Hey everyone, I decided to post here and see what everyone's opinion was on this:
Recently a 5-year friend of mine decided to quit everything and become a pastor. While this was a shock to all of his friends and family, it got me thinking. He's the 3rd of my friends that knows exactly what he wants to do in life by the age of 20 and has a extremely specific plan for it all.
Me on the other hand, I have no idea what I want to do. I have no idea what I'm good at. I don't have any ONE thing that I'm extremely passionate about. Do you think that it's a bad thing that I'm completely lost at the moment, or do you feel like in time everything will become clear. Is there a possibility that maybe not everyone is meant to have and do the one thing that they are extremely passionate about for the rest of their life?
Thanks guy. Always know that the TL community is there when you need them.
Op
I think if you are extremely passionate about something, you should definitely pursue it no matter what, cause this will be the thing u will love doing, this will be the thing that will make u happy, cause honestly, too many grownups hate their job and are unhappy with their live and just go for the rest of their lives with a daily routine of hating the job and then showing their unhappines on their families. This is why u have to do what u love and if getting there is hard, well try harder!
and believe me, if ur friend quit everything and became a pastor, he has no idea what he wants in his life, he just chose a simpler route, basically the easy way out and went into the ignorant thinking life.
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On August 09 2012 21:54 Hellboy.100 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2012 16:12 OptronX wrote:
Hey everyone, I decided to post here and see what everyone's opinion was on this:
Recently a 5-year friend of mine decided to quit everything and become a pastor. While this was a shock to all of his friends and family, it got me thinking. He's the 3rd of my friends that knows exactly what he wants to do in life by the age of 20 and has a extremely specific plan for it all.
Me on the other hand, I have no idea what I want to do. I have no idea what I'm good at. I don't have any ONE thing that I'm extremely passionate about. Do you think that it's a bad thing that I'm completely lost at the moment, or do you feel like in time everything will become clear. Is there a possibility that maybe not everyone is meant to have and do the one thing that they are extremely passionate about for the rest of their life?
Thanks guy. Always know that the TL community is there when you need them.
Op I think if you are extremely passionate about something, you should definitely pursue it no matter what, cause this will be the thing u will love doing, this will be the thing that will make u happy, cause honestly, too many grownups hate their job and are unhappy with their live and just go for the rest of their lives with a daily routine of hating the job and then showing their unhappines on their families. This is why u have to do what u love and if getting there is hard, well try harder! and believe me, if ur friend quit everything and became a pastor, he has no idea what he wants in his life, he just chose a simpler route, basically the easy way out and went into the ignorant thinking life.
Never measure your life based on those around you. It's one of the simplest and easiest things you can do to ruin yourself, and in the end all you are doing is feeding yourself false envy.
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Life is meaningless to me. A short wait until death comes and ends it. Just find a way to enjoy yourself while you wait.
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to go to the 9th dimension and defeat the giant monkey. As I grow up, I realise that there is no portal to the 9th dimension (yet). I became an accountant. 
I don't believe in religions or anything, and my answer is that life itself is meaningless. You grow up and die. It is up to the individual to create meaning for themselves. Go do some volunteer work at old people shelter and talk to them would be a great start for finding meaning in life. Encourge the old people to tell you their story and life experiences and listen closely.
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The meaning of life is living. Just live, do what makes you happy, make friends, love, feel good, enjoy the world...
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On August 09 2012 21:30 Dopubalimatu wrote:
"What is the meaning of life?I don't know but we might as well do civilization while we're at it" - Eddie Izzard
This is one of the wiser things that has been said so far.
On August 09 2012 20:24 Kukaracha wrote:
So many people talk about a scientific perspective... I don't get it.
It never ends.
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Sharing time is the meaning of Life.
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On August 09 2012 06:59 KNICK wrote:
There is no meaning to life. That is my honest opinion.
All of our existences are meaningless and ultimately useless, no matter what we achieve. Any goal I set for myself has no lasting impact on the outcome of my life. One day, I will die. What comes after is none of my concern.
Sure, some people will be remembered (and will work to be remembered) for a longer span than others, but eventually time will erase these memories and there will be nothing left, except some impersonal entries in a history book (or PDA or hologram database, who knows).
That doesn't mean I don't enjoy being alive, though. On the contrary, I have found that if I am free of false goals and aspirations which will never amount to anything, I can appreciate life as a span of years in which I am free to have fun and do whatever I want, before going back to my natural state of non-being.
That's all life is to me, sort of a metaphysical playground or theme park. My existence is an accident and nothing of value will be lost when I die. It took me a while to come to terms with this, but I'm glad I did.
I would recommend checking out the works of the late Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, who had many interesting things to say on this subject. Example quotes:
"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one."
"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
man, just bee good in your life, you want to go to heaven right? hell is a bad place to be. Ok I disagree totally with all nonbelievers in afterlife. I bet all our actions are shifting our being which after death goes to some other place or dimension to continue existence. By learning, improving yourself, breaking your own barriers, helping others you improve spiritually or as a being which makes base of yourself in afterlife.
Our lives, universe, other things are not perfect, the real sh*t starts after you die.
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In my head, I can imagine things. Those things I imagine exist in some world, not in a metaphysical sense, but the ideas and things I can see in my mind exist in some sense of the word. To our world they are just electrical impulses. That is all. But in my mind, they are something more.
The word world is such a strange thing. I don't mean my thoughts are in a world like we live, but more a pre-interpreted and holistically structured background of meaning.We can only understand it with our practical encounters with it. Hense electrical impulses.
I quote someone much smarter than I to elaborate on this world:
The world is not a possible object of knowledge – because it is not an object at all, not an entity or set of entities. It is that within which entities appear, a field or horizon the conditions for any intra-worldly relation, and so is not analysable in terms of any such relation
What if, in some sense, we are creations just like my thoughts. That is to say, that we have come and been created in a universe by some way we cannot begin to possibly imagine, by some world where there is no such thing as physics, there is no such thing as matter.
And when I say we were created in a universe, I don't mean a universe in a literal sense. Because the meaning of a universe depends upon the context in which we encounter it. And much like my thoughts cannot encounter our metaphysical world, we cannot encounters or experience the place in which our own universe has been created.
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The meaning of life is to live.
By just being alive you are fulfilling your purpose. Without the us, the universe wouldn't exist because no one would be around to sense it. Life is the universe experiencing itself. Without life, the universe might as well not exist because there are no minds around to make it real.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes, but no one knows about it, so it might as well have not even happened. It would make no difference.
This same phrase and answer can be applied to the universe.
If a universe exists and no one is around to live in it, does it really exist? Yes, but no one knows about it, so it might as well have not even happened. It would make no difference.
It is us, life, that makes the difference. We give the universe purpose. That is the meaning of life.
Now we are presented with a new problem now that we know the meaning of life.
The real big question now is: What is the meaning of the universe?
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It has more thinking behind it but for you, the individual, the meaning of life is happiness. Seems like an open door, cause it is. So find out what makes you happy (not pleasure, i mean happiness) and do that. 24/7 if possible.
Charity, positive thinking, pride, avoiding negativity (cyclistic negativity such somebody beating you down is the worst), accepting bad stuff (inevitable), exercise, health, good personal relationships etc.
O and as a last note: don't waste your time trying to figure out questions you can't answer. How the universe was created is actually not that relevant to the individual's happiness.
Also see: The pyramide of maslow
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Oh of course, what people do with their lives is up to them. Nobody can be happy 24/7 though. Your brain couldn't possibly stream those happy chemicals nonstop no matter how fulfilling you find your life to be.
Also, it is not a waste of time, and indeed these questions can be answered with enough meditation.
How the universe was created will forever be a mystery, but finding meaning and purpose can be accomplished if you try. I didn't want to further expand on my thoughts about the universe because I didn't want to derail the topic off on a tangent.
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The ultimate question with so many answers, or no answer at all.
Short version: Eat, sleep, procreate....or Life has no meaning, any one person's life is pointless/insignificant.
When I was fresh out of high school, I thought I knew everything about 'life', when I turned 21 I knew so much more, same thing when I turned 25. The mind is amazing and your outlook will be forever changing.
Everything you do has meaning, no matter how small, whether you notice it or not. A sentence and a smile to a random stranger could be enough to make them want to keep living, but you would never know.
From a young age, it seems to me, people are programmed or convinced that if they are not doing extraordinary things(curing diseases, running for president, flying planes, famous singer/actor) then they think they are failures. I believe the opposite, I mean sure, if that's really what you want to do then go for it, but don't feel pressured that you have to. If you get the same satisfaction from being a carpenter building houses as you would performing open heart surgery then what's the difference? People look at you differently? Your parents won't brag about you being a carpenter? You don't drive a BMW?
Even though people seem to love drama, it really is pointless. Even though people seem to love trashtalking others, discussing who is a "loser" and who is "doing well", again it's pointless. Taking peoples opinions of you to heart as truth is pointless.
My point is don't live your life for others, you only get one. Surround yourself with people that take you for who you are, pass on your knowledge and experiences, and take a moment and look out at the water, up in the sky, across a field, sit there and just be.
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