sometimes i wonder, what is the purpose of life....is there a flow chart as in how one should life his/her life? but normally, one's life starts like this:
- mum gives birth
- we sleep, cry, eat, sleep, sleep eat eat
- then we grow up
- then go to kindergarten, then secondary school, then Uni
- graduate and then start work
- climbing up corporate ladder
- found the love of your life
- get married
- have kids
- work hard so that you could provide for your kids
- pay mortgage, kids grow up
- sick then die
this is a typical life of a human being....ok, let's take a closer look at one's life in detail...
- get up in the morning
- bfast
- rush for work
- try to concentrate on work and work hard
- pressure from bosses, coworkers, clients, parents, kids...etc etc
- finally, get to leave office...go home, have dinner
- rest a bit or try to meet up with friends, or even OT or do house work etc etc etc..whatever you can think of u do after work.
- sleep (if you could fall asleep successfully)
- dream...happy dream, nightmare or just cant remember..our mind is constantly working
- alarm clock goes off...rush to get ready
- work
- and the life cycle repeats itself....
sometimes i wonder...what's the purpose of life if we are always just to do the same thing day in day out....trying to earn as much money as possible so that you could provide for your family? so that you could satisfy your wants and needs? so that you could live a happy and relax life? what is meaningful to you? in the end, after doing everything in the above CYCLES, we will grow old, get sick and die....so why do we work, why do we save if eventually, we wont be able to take these with us? there are so much short term happiness, pains, bitterness, pressure etc etc in our whole life time...what are we trying to accomplish? can anyone tell me?
4 comments:
I also thinking about this! I'm a bit lost for what i'm doing now. Is it worth to work so hard to get what we getting now? & Are we happy with what we doing now?
we do certain things just to fulfil certain needs. like, we are hungry so we eat, we pee coz pee tight etc
yalor, i also feel that everyone has life missions to accomplish as soon as they are conceived in mums' tummies. But WHAT?
oh bother.. it's too much to think. let's just enjoy the present... ^^
hey jane, u sound depressed leh.
to me, life is not about what accomplishment that we reached at the end (isn't it death?), but the journey that counts, wat we have give n what we have received make this world a different place. Even we all live like the same but we r making this world a little bit more different each day dont u think.
anywway, how about become a volunteer if u want sth different out of your life?
haha, no la, im not depressed la, im just pondering about the purpose of life and what are we trying achieve here...u are right tat it's the journey that counts..but how are we gonna plan our journey? is there a purpose so tat we could make our journey as meaningful as possible or just let nature takes its course? you are right, i think one of the purposes is to make some contribution to the world..if not big but small :)
yup, tracy, im at the point where im lost too...i dono if this is what we all want....i think it's time to think about how we want to make changes :)
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