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Toxage · Jan 22, 2008, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Help! How can I give my life meaning? The majority of peoples' lives are meaningless, you just do the same repetitive tasks over and over again. These actions will have no impact on the future or society. How can I break this mold? I want my life to mean something. I want to help change the world. I don't want to be stuck making money for someone else for forever. I want my life to have a purpose!

Baffneu · Jan 22, 2008, 10:49 PM // 22:49

buy a bike .

Jumping Is Uselss · Jan 22, 2008, 10:50 PM // 22:50

Play Guild Wars.

sph0nz · Jan 22, 2008, 11:02 PM // 23:02

Nobody has a grand purpose in life. You give your own lives meaning by creating it yourself (for example, through goals that you want to accomplish). Changing the world, on the other hand seems like a very large and unrealistic task; getting immortalized, however seems easier, say through the arts or something.

Tyla · Jan 22, 2008, 11:06 PM // 23:06

sph0nz ftw!

Think GW titles - you gotta go for them, just like you gotta go for life's accomplishments!!(if you want, ofcourse)

Aera · Jan 22, 2008, 11:13 PM // 23:13

Get a girlfriend. Have hot steaming pr0n and you'll know why you're alive.

Fril Estelin · Jan 22, 2008, 11:20 PM // 23:20

Become president of the USA ... and change the world? (it would be more difficult as the French president and probably impossible as the Chinese president)

Brianna · Jan 22, 2008, 11:20 PM // 23:20

Get a Gf/Bf. Someone to love, who loves you back, kinda makes coming home every day worth it. Though it can really be a win/lose, so at your own risk.

Celestial_Kitsune · Jan 22, 2008, 11:30 PM // 23:30

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein

Some suggestions to help you find meaning in life:

Volunteer. By volunteering you'll have an impact on future and society. Choose the activity you would enjoy the most

http://www.volunteermatch.org/
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/emp/emp_2_volunteers.asp

Read. Reading will help you learn about possibilities and your own self. Consider reading some of these books (your library might have them).

- Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
- Hesse, Hermann (1922). Siddhartha.
- Meaning of Life (Wiki article)

Some quotes from the wise:

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
Mother Teresa

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."
Carl Rogers

"One who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."
Gautama Buddha

freaky naughty · Jan 22, 2008, 11:32 PM // 23:32

Get a high paying job, have kids and give those kids the greatest chance to change the world that they can have. If anything else give your kids the ability to promise their kids a great life and education.

Toxage · Jan 23, 2008, 12:16 AM // 00:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by quickmonty

Start useless threads in Guru

Threads about Guild Wars = Useful.

Threads about how to have a meaningful life = Not Useful?

I am confused by your logic.

Mr Fizzle · Jan 23, 2008, 12:26 AM // 00:26

Easiest question on GWG yet.

Find someone to love make them happy.

SPIRIT OF THE SEA · Jan 23, 2008, 12:28 AM // 00:28

Give me Gold, AND LOTS OF SUGAR!!!!! (going for connesaur if theres anyone who wants to donate to the cause)

WarKaster · Jan 23, 2008, 12:57 AM // 00:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aera

Get a girlfriend. Have hot steaming pr0n and you'll know why you're alive.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

Get a Gf/Bf. Someone to love, who loves you back, kinda makes coming home every day worth it. Though it can really be a win/lose, so at your own risk.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Fizzle

Easiest question on GWG yet.

Find someone to love make them happy.

Start there then work your way up to changing the world.

Zeek Aran · Jan 23, 2008, 01:09 AM // 01:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by alalmamabb

just do what you want to

Bam. I was about to say "Stop caring about such trivial things and just enjoi your life."

Mr Fizzle · Jan 23, 2008, 01:19 AM // 01:19

Thinking about the living life thing, what makes you have thrills? Do you ever get that its not enough feeling from a crazy roller coaster ride? I know its kind of weird to say but try something thats high thrills.

The Real Roy Keane · Jan 23, 2008, 01:33 AM // 01:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toxage

Help! How can I give my life meaning?

Not the right place to ask..

FlamingMetroid · Jan 23, 2008, 03:54 AM // 03:54

grow a mustache

{IceFire} · Jan 23, 2008, 04:47 AM // 04:47

Make waffles

I Dont Do Coke · Jan 23, 2008, 04:56 AM // 04:56

American Idol