Just wondering how others look at life instead of the bleak and pessimistic view that I perceive it as.
My purpose is to have everyone recognize me around the world; I don’t want to be average.
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
One thing I would like to do in life is to be a helping hand for kids and young adults in need of guidance and understanding.
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To find what makes me happy and invest in it, whether it’s school, work, women, friends, money, hobbies, lifting, etc.
To read and learn as much as possible before I die. There is so much out there, and so much I don’t know, that it is a losing battle, but, at the same time, I think it’s a worthwhile goal. As Harold Bloom writes, “It matters, if individuals are to retain any capacity to form their own judgments and opinions, that they continue to read for themselves…but eventually you will read against the clock.”
But ultimately, it comes down to fulfilling whatever it is that makes you happy; whether that means becoming famous, helping out kids, raising a family, whatever. You only live once; it’d be a shame not to enjoy it
To train all day and never go to work
Become some sort of legend? Make history to be mentioned a couple 100 years after I kick the bucket.
2 chicks dude, 2 chicks
my purpose is to impregnate a female in order to continue to expand my species
1.drinking cheap alcohhol
2.chasing cheap women
3.becoming elite atlete-hooligan
Killin’
Because lots of folks out there need some.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
To convince others that the English word “gladiators” actually has two 'a’s in it.[/quote]
glad-I-ate-er’
Yup! 2 'a’s.
Ultimately get into heaven, apparently that’s easier than being chosen for the physique clinic!
[quote]B.b. in stress! wrote:
Just wondering how others look at life instead of the bleak and pessimistic view that I perceive it as.
My purpose is to have everyone recognize me around the world; I don’t want to be average.[/quote]
What do you plan on doing to gain this recognition?
This is something a friend of mine and I have been discussing lately. It seems that kids now have this feeling that they should be famous for no particular reason.
Not to be cynical or judgemental, but what makes you so special? Do you have any criteria for this fame, or can it be gotten any old way? Main reason I ask is that there seems to be an outbreak of kids in the last few years who have a bleak and pesimistic outlook on life that have come by their fame by shooting up their peers.
So, B.B., whats your plan?
What is my porpoise in life? To swim and eat mackerel.
Life as I understand it is peaks and valleys good and bad. My purpose is to be strong enough to weather the bad and happy enough to enjoy the hell out of the good. When I am at or near my end I want to feel that I sunk my teeth into the life I was given and had some damn good times.
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I like this, generally attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson:
[i]To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.[/i]
Line five works well for me as a purpose.
Not to bring religion in the thread, but these verses have always held a special importance for me.
“Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun�?? all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
Enjoy the good things in life and bust your ass at everything you do, because you will die one day.
It’s a good purpose.