After all is said and done, what meaning is to your life?

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What do you feel your life is worth to you?
What meanings do you feel your life means to others?
Do you feel your existence, socially, to be worth it?

I'm not very philosophical.

Life is what you make it.

I believe in creating, for myself, as much pleasure for myself, while not hurting others in the process.

I don't understand those questions, but here's my attempt at answering them.

Q) What do you feel your life is worth to you?
A) My life just is.

Q) What meanings do you feel your life means to others?
A) I have no idea how anyone else would view my life, in order to do so I'd need to be them, which I'm obviously not.

Q) Do you feel your existence, socially, to be worth it?
A) I have no existence socially and that's my choice, so is it worth what?

Remember, your life is your own, your destiny your own to choose, keep your head.

Acknowledge God.
Take the next right step.
Be a sign of hope to others.

Are you going to answer your own questions?

Yes, when I feel the time is ripe!

What is that supposed to mean? It sounds like a quote from an Enigma album. It doesn't explain what the questions were about, which was what I didn't understand.

After all that is passed, than it's time to have fun.

I tend toward Albert CamI'd view. We live in a universe too complicated to know for certain whether or not it exists for a reason, and it made us in a way that forces us to keep asking that same damned question from the cradle to the grave.

worth is based on the idea of exchange. to me, my life can't be exchanged. so, to me, the concept of worth doesn't apply to my own life as a whole


to my parents, i'm probably part of the fulfillment of what they perceive/perceived as their social/religious obligation of building a family. i've had other roles to different people throughout my life, but most of those people (including the rest of my family) are no longer part of my life except maybe once in a blue moon. i prefer not to think of what i mean or don't mean to them. that's up to them and it doesn't really concern me (unless it will somehow make them more present in my life, in which case i need to react accordingly and decide what to make of it myself)


i don't really have a social existence, which is intentional, and at the same time it's not. the intentional part of it is because, no, i don't feel like it's worth it. but i still haven't given up on possible scenarios where it would be. more specifically:

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to me, personally, "the meaning of life" is the very search for a state where i won't think to ask myself what the meaning of life is. it doesn't make logical sense, but that's not surprising, is it? whether or not it involves other people isn't a fundamentally important thing to me, it's just a consequence of my nature, nothing else

Ah, that's the big question in existence, isn't it? What's the point of it all? For us, it's going to be a bit more truncated. Success in a military career is going to be a long and hard road, and while a few Aspies have done moderately well, it's not something that is advised. Too much stress.

College life isn't a good idea either. It's a mad house out there, and if you can't keep up with the politically correct environment, one is probably going to get kicked out for missing some kind of social que or making a Harambe joke or something, and that's just the powers that be warming up. After that, THEN they'll get REALLY nasty.

Occupation is something that we'll always struggle with. The ADA is fairly useless, managers are cut-throats for results, and if they have to make you have a melt down while micromanaging for this, that or the other thing, so be it.

But my point of saying all this isn't to make you realize what a big, dark place the world is. It's to illustrate that the Joker was right. There is no point to any of this, and everything ANYONE has ever created or built is going to be gone given enough time. It's all one big joke, so it might be a good idea to learn to laugh at it a bit. Play a game, read a book, encourage your obsessions, and if anyone wants to try and bring you down and tell you to "grow up", fire back that they can bite us.

As I said, I will answer my own questions, as I was asked to do so.


For me, its my freedom, I am not a vary materialistic person, just the hike through some of our most gorgeous national forests makes me feel like I am enriched with the blessings of life and nature.

As for the meaning of my life to others, probably not much, but during my travels I have stopped and helped people along the way and at that moment in time I am sure it meant allot to them, and it made me feel good about my self helping others along the way. and I do have a son whom love me and I him dearly, we are family and mean a lot to each others lives.

Socially? I do not have a social life past raising my son, and I am content with that, if not feeling also blessed to have him in my life. I do not need other people to feel happy, but if I make a friend or two along the way, or just share moments with someone in some positive way, all the better.

"I love you, I'll kill you."
My life is worth a lot to me, despite my behaviour. I have no idea what I may matter, if anything, to others. I considered that I may actually have badly misinterpreted this recently, and caused myself a problem possibly based on a delusion for the last 13 years.
This last question is ambiguous - do you mean in a sense of utility to the broader social machinery, or is social life in terms of relationships worthwhile?

As long as it lasts, it's everything else.

Others mean more to me than they'll know, so it may work both ways. One can never know for sure.

I prefer written form, otherwise not terribly interested. I don't really like feeling so lost at work when everyone else seems to know every little detail of what's going on or exactly how to respond to every situation, but oh well. There's far more to life than yakin'.