What is the point in life?

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Just curious to read about all your viewpoints?
is it to acquire money/career?
is it to provide for your children once you’re gone? (Leave money in your will so that they will be comfortable)
is it to enjoy life “in the moment” through travelling the world, experiencing cultures, eating out, etc
is it through charity and good deeds
or to just simply exist and be grateful for it regardless of anything else (finances, etc)

On a basic level I think it is to reproduce our genes to enable the human race to survive.

Anything beyond that is fancy naval gazing.

To try and be happy & to try and do some good.
I think everything we work for and try to acquire is in pursuit of these things, ultimately.

Enjoy the passage of time.

To observe, learn and love.

To experience as much as possible, to be happy and to be kind.

I agree with this.

But I think we can enjoy life whilst we are here, you have to find something that makes it feel fulfilling. For me, being with family and friends, raising happy children, being in nature and being with and helping animals all make me happy.

To go through life trying to not be a dick and find things that make me happy. I teach philosophy and spend half my life on the "big questions" but they're academic exercises and bear no relation to day to day living.

I don't think there's one universal answer and it changes over time but on the whole life is a precious gift and mostly I think it's to try and leave a little positive imprint whether through your interactions with people and the world around you. Relationships and health are mostly the important things - every thing else is just stuff.

For me it’s the monotony I can’t stand, working, coming home, dinner and repeat. I need change and to spend time with my family, ie I need a holiday or a change in scene and quality time with them, without work or household chores and responsibility.

There is no point, really. The way I make peace with that is that I do my best at everything, I travel as much as I can. I absorb as much beauty and pleasure as possible. I love my family extravagantly, I try my hardest to be good. But it’s for ‘for’ anything per se.

Comedian Jimmy Carr said in a podcast that the purpose of life is to pass time and enjoy doing it...

It depends on what you want. Money is important in that it facilitates so much of life but as a means on its own it’s not important to me. Connection with others, having a purposeful job, raising my kids to be fundamentally decent people, that all matters more than the financial tag.

The purpose of any journey is to get to the end.

I can tell you something that is definitely not the point of life: to open MN threads in the wrong motherfucking section. How is this is AIBU, OP ???

I am in the Life is meaningless and everything dies camp.

Procreation to perpetuate the species is our fundamental purpose as mammals.

OFDOD. And it’s navel,not naval. The point of life is not to gaze at warships.

I’m in the Buddhism camp where life is suffering. I just try to get through it.

There isn't a "point" to life. Why would there need to be? The fact humans exist is just a product of biochemical accident and coincidence.

For the joy it brings me. Friends, intellectual interests, family, work, the satisfaction of a job well done. Shimmering dewy grass at sunrise. Beautiful sunsets. Good food, a crisp refreshing glass of wine. Hope and love.

There isn't one. We are each a collection of cells, born due to an accident of genetics. We breathe in and out for a few years, and then we die.
You can choose to give your life a point if you like (job, hobby, children, religion, whatever), but that's up to you. Fundamentally, all of us are pointless.

To survive. Perhaps to pass on your genetic material.

Of course the answers will depend who you ask - a person who has to hunt for food or starve every day will have a very different view from a person sitting in their owned home awaiting a Waitrose delivery.

This

Fuck knows, just enjoy it.

You only get one go . . .

No one knows. We're not here, we're alive then we're not here. That's it.

And also this