Life's Meaning Is Purpose

Many people believe that life's meaning is to have PURPOSE...

Purpose is defined as the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

Does your life have purpose?

Do you have a purpose in life?

At 73 years of age, I have never really discovered (realized or became aware) of what my actual purpose was or is...  and yet, I believe very strongly that I was put here on earth for SOME PURPOSE.

According to the DALAI LAMA --  life's purpose is to be happy...

and, I suppose there is some logic to that feeling...  but, I also know that happiness is an illusion oftentimes, especially when people think money, power, control will make them happy...  so, in order to find happiness, one must first UNDERSTAND the TRUE meaning of happiness.  AND...  the true meaning of happiness, unfortunately, does not exist in our mental awareness or in our mental capabilities of understanding at this time...  

When we were created (however that happened) we were born with or evolved a FREE WILL...  but, Free Will has nothing to do with happiness other than gives us the motivation to pursue what we perceive as that which will make us HAPPY.  

Some us substitute CONTENTMENT with HAPPINESS...   and, the two, in my opinion, are mutually exclusive.

OTHERS BELIEVE OUR PURPOSE TO BE THE FOLLOWING:

• explore, experience, discover
• to understand
• to love and/or give love
• exercise one's free will
• to become better....   but, the next question is:  better than what?
• live in the moment...   which is what we are forced to do regardless...
• leave a legacy
• search for one's soul
• self-actualization
• serve others
• makes a difference....   to what?  to whom?

SO...

Here is my contribution to LIFE'S PURPOSE:

Life's purpose is to survive... and procreate...

We typically have 80-100 years of potential life that has been given to us...

we try to live as long as we can and if we do not procreate the human race will eventually become extinct...

We have been give free will for this purpose...

Whatever else that we do is subordinate to that one purpose of survival and procreation...

if we were not given free will we would have automatically and eventually become extinct...  so free will was necessary...

If free will was necessary then complex evolution as a result of the big bang is theoretically impossible to have been responsible for the creation of the universe and our ultimate creation thereafter.

We were put here intentionally so that we could survive and procreate...  and anything after that purpose is predicated upon one's free will to decide what one wants/needs to do next.