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We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Cat videos.

[–] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Nothing happens to you after you die. The pieces to pick up and carry on is on those we leave behind, if we are remembered well. If not, the pieces to pick up and throw out is on them too, anyway.

If nothing happens after we die, it's the same thing as that nothing happens in a movie after it's ended. I hope that the character I was will still exist in peoples' mind even after I go. I've recently started to embrace that "All the world's a stage" thing a lot and lot more, recently.

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,"

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

You've got to outlive your enemies

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Embrace Absurdism. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv79l1b-eoI And/Or read Albert Camus

[–] minyakcurry@monyet.cc 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Read myth of sisyphus BEFORE the stranger please. But yea camus is great

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[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Live your life its the point of living. not working all day in the best days of your life.

Your time its all you have. don't waste it.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

...or do ! but knowingly !

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

What do we owe to each other? For coexistence without inherent meaning in an afterlife, is the only source of moral good the social contract that we've made with each other to coexist peacefully? What are the bounds of that contract? What are the terms of our coexistence?

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's the everyday drudgery, miseries and annoyances that make the good times worthwhile. Just like you never appreciate the sun more than in a place that gets very little of it.

I currently live in a country that enjoys a very high standard of living and where people really do enjoy the good life. Yet weirdly enough, a lot of the locals are depressed and keep complaining. Why? Because they don't realize what they have, because it's their everyday normal.

As for what's the point of living, if you don't want to fall into the easy fallacies of religion, I suggest you simply enjoy your life while you can. You were born with a finite number of hours on this dirtball and they're ticking away, so make sure you spend as many as you can with your loved ones having a good time. Because when the clock stops ticking, it's over.

[–] lordkekz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is no inherent goal or point in life. You get to decide. You get to give your life meaning.

It can be hard. Sometimes, material conditions like poverty, working conditions or social pressure make it hard to find meaning. Sometimes, you can loose the meaning, like when you loose a loved one. A good society should help empower all people to give themselves meaning. Sadly this is not the direction many countries are taking nowadays.

But despite everything: You are ultimately empowered to create meaning for yourself. Nobody can truly take that away from you.

[–] tazzy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Enjoy the ride.

There is no point. The point is that you experienced life at all, the most rarest thing in this universe perhaps. Most people don’t even stop to think how amazing that is. Going outside and smelling fresh air, drinking water, laughing, crying.

[–] NaNin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Try playing disco elysium

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

We have no evidence anything happens after you die. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If it makes you feel better to believe theres some afterlife waiting for you go for it. Just dont be a dick about it to other people. Keep it to yourself.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Plenty happens after you die. You're just not there for it.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Learn. Evolve. Improve one's mind. Understand more of the universe. Gain a greater understanding of one's place in the universe. Grow beyond what we understand and comprehend existence at this point.

If there's no point, why not have fun?

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Whatever you decide to make of it, which is an incredibly beautiful thing.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

There is no point. This life is what you get. It's up to you to make something of it.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 months ago

what else can you do? we are because we am

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

If something happens after we die, what’s the point of it all?

No matter if anything happens after death or not, or what happens, we can not know and we don’t seem to be able to comprehend it either way. So we can not know if what we have got is comparatively good or bad. The only thing left is to make the best of it. Because why not?

[–] LifeOfEnd@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

To make evil men and women powerful.

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

In my book, it doesn't have a purpose, everything only matters for a brief moment in your life. "This too shall pass", for better and for good.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Worms entered the chat

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

First existential crisis? There's isn't one. Once you make peace with that fact then you can overcome the existential dread of oblivion and move on content in the understanding that nothing you do matters in the long run, and focus your energy on something else.

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

There is no point, you make it yourself. And plenty of people manage to catch a glimpse of happiness because there's plenty to be happy about.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago

I prefer not having a meaning of life.

Imagine having a real purpose. Then the question would still be "why", but you'd also have that obligation to do.

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