I have a question, with genuine sentiment behind it

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I ask this question in all honesty, without the melodrama that it implies:

What is the point?

I don't get it, I don't know why we are here, I don't know why I had children, I don't know why I exist. I don't know why it is bothering me so much at the moment.

It does sound really melodramatic but I have been thinking about these things a lot recently and can't seem to come up with any kind of answer. I don't even think there is an answer but there must be something that will placate me!

I didn't really think about it much when I was working, but now I am a SAHM it seems to be on my mind quite a lot. Is it because we have been trained to thing that work is the meaning of our existence and we are not really functioning in society unless we work? But thinking back to when I was working, there wasn't much point to that either.

Humans seem to have created an existence that is even more fragile than when we actually had to fight to survive, and this makes it even more pointless in a way.

What's your view of life?

spiders i live in the US so very much doubt you know me in RL.

Hey, are you still...where you used to be? I will be in your neck of the woods next summer, I believe.

yep, SE MI.
Desperate for Spring to arrive here.
that's the point of life - sunshine & relaxing with friends.

Cool! I will be in the Muskegon area, I think. Which is...west?

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you'd think i'd know!

Not sure if there is a point. I always wondered why people want to know, just have some fun, do what you enjoy...

However, I have changed a bit, and now believe the point is that you contribute your own unique thing to this world. What is it that you have to give? And of course the answer can be: being a wonderful mum, which is one of the most important 'jobs' in the world if you ask me. But if your answer deep down is: no, I have other things to contribute to this world too, then you might have to start figuring out what those are...

My fiance died when he was 27, from cancer, he loved life and wanted to stay forever. He would have told you: the purpose is how much you feel like living it. Sorry... this doesn't translate very well from my native language. Anyway it is about your enthusiasm for life, going for it, living it with great enthousiasm and intent, that's the purpose.

Guess you don't feel like living life much if you are changing nappies... Do something fun, watch a comic, phone a friend, help someone and tomorrow you will perhaps feel like living much more?

I was having similar thoughts recently while reading a historical novel, I sort of got to a point where I thought does it really matter what happens to any of the characters as, regardless of whether they survive this bit of the book, they're all dead now.

Everything seems a bit pointless sometimes but I do still enjoy life, nappy changes and all.

I guess all you can do is try to be happy .

I think the point of being on this earth is to learn more about God. Bit hard at times when he can seem really distant and you wonder why he let something happen, but ultimately, he created us, made this earth for us to enjoy (and look after) and he wants to be a part of our everyday humdrum lives. Pretty mind blowing when you think about it!

I remember asking my Dad when I was a child (must have really worried him!) "What's the point of living if we are only going to die?" He said , "don't ask things like that or you will go mad."
But I'm so glad I kept asking because when I found Buddhism I got the answers I needed.
Its as simple as this: Karma aka cause and effect, every action creates a future reaction so we can be the architects of our own future, this is not only empowering but causes us to make a more meaningful motivation to our day to day activities.