The Meaning of Life

[sexy-girl]

what is it ?


um i better expand on that i guess ... what does life mean to you in everyday respects :

do you have a drive to succeed a fear of failure - i dont have either of these

is it more important to make others happy or yourself - for me i would say others because it makes me happy being around happy people

how long term do you plan - for me weekly i have dreams but i dont have to follow them because my dreams change so often

are you happy where you are in life right now - i need a job i can feel fulfilled in i just dont know what that is

if you could go back in time and say something to your younger self what would that be and when - for me 15 i'd just tell myself to hang on in there and dont worry because you're going to meet someone really special soon


i framed my post into questions and answers but you dont have to answer them just seeking to hear what life means to people on a everyday level

 

[Nora]

If I answer first does it make me Alpha-geek?

42.

 

[sexy-girl]

If I answer first does it make me Alpha-geek?

42.

lol thats the answer but whats the question


7 * 6 =

 

[naudiz]

what is it ?


um i better expand on that i guess ... what does life mean to you in everyday respects :

do you have a drive to succeed a fear of failure - i dont have either of these

I have a fear of success, and I loathe failure. At least it keeps me occupied.

is it more important to make others happy or yourself - for me i would say others because it makes me happy being around happy people

Making others happy does make me happy, so it all works out. I like being around happy people, too. I like laughter. I like making people laugh, and I crack up at my own jokes all the time.

how long term do you plan - for me weekly i have dreams but i dont have to follow them because my dreams change so often

I have long-term goals, and when a deadline crops up, I race to meet it, but other than that, life is about moments, and I take each one as it comes.

are you happy where you are in life right now - i need a job i can feel fulfilled in i just dont know what that is

I'm pretty happy. I'm not where I want to be, but I'm getting there. I can't work right now, and that sucks. I want to be a writer, and I write, so that works out. Now if only I could get paid for it...

if you could go back in time and say something to your younger self what would that be and when - for me 15 i'd just tell myself to hang on in there and dont worry because you're going to meet someone really special soon

I would tell my fifteen-year-old self that when she gets into college and starts feeling ill, go to a doctor immediately. If I had gotten some kind of care for my fibromyalgia, and a diagnosis even a few years earlier, I might not have had to drop out.

i framed my post into questions and answers but you dont have to answer them just seeking to hear what life means to people on a everyday level

I have a lot to say on this, but will save it for another post.

 

[michaelmt1]

lol thats the answer but whats the question


7 * 6 =

No the question is actually what is 7 * 8 and the answer is 42
seriously but you have to read the book.


Mike
(the first million years wern't too bad, but then I went into a bit of a decline)

 

[Guest]

Forbear, fond taper: what thou seek'st, is fire:
Thy own destruction's lodg'd in thy desire.
Thy wants are far more safe than their supply:
He that begins to live, begins to die.

- Francis Quarles

 

[activesense]

what is it ?

For me it is to continue growing and learning while contributing my skills to improve the lives of those who have less.


I have both a drive for success and a fear of success.

I am mutually consumed with trying to be happy and do good, which also makes me feel happy but is not enough on its own.

I think about life long-term but plan mostly weekly, at most monthly. Life continuously changes.

I am becoming fulfilled but am not there yet. More on my way than before but still have a ways to go. I beginning a new chapter after four years of graduate school - I'm uncretain as to what the next year holds but I think it will be a lot of change...

If I could go back in time - I would try and convinve myself to enjoy life more, see the postive more and enjoy who I was and what I had going for me - I didn't allow myself to trust anything that was positive in my life because of many choatic experiences early on. I had a lot of success (and could have had more) but never really appreciated it or allow it to give me confidence.

activesense

 

[sexy-girl]

No the question is actually what is 7 * 8 and the answer is 42
seriously but you have to read the book.


Mike
(the first million years wern't too bad, but then I went into a bit of a decline)

but 7 * 8 is 56


i read the book a long time ago


thanks to activesense and naudiz im nosey i guess but its interesting reading how others answer the weird things that are going through my head


CV interesting poem

 

[Kitte]

what does life mean to you in everyday respects : Life is a journey I just sometimes feel like I lost the map.

do you have a drive to succeed a fear of failure - I have a fear of success how twisted am I?

is it more important to make others happy or yourself - I am happy making others happy...but sometimes I do it to excess and end up unhappy.

how long term do you plan - I am planning on finishing this post...that is about as long term as I get these days.

are you happy where you are in life right now - No...I want more...I am just so unsure as to what this mysterious more is...

if you could go back in time and say something to your younger self what would that be and when - I would go back to myself at 9 and say dont let them make you this angry...things will get better and you will be stronger for it..grow from your pain and dont let it become who you are.

 

[sexy-girl]

ok thats three times i've heard "fear of success" in this thread i've never heard it before what is it if you dont mind me asking

 

[naudiz]

It was brought up once awhile ago. Check this thread, and it might answer your question better than I could rehash here.

 

[Kitte]

ok thats three times i've heard "fear of success" in this thread i've never heard it before what is it if you dont mind me asking

For me it is, I know I can fail...Im not sure I can succeed. So there fore if I do not try to exceed my grasp I can never fail. That and If I succeed once it will become the ruler against which all other things I do will be measured, I have therefore confined myself to a life of self imposed mediocrity. If I do not try I can not fail...If I do not reach beyond what is expected of me I do not have to try when I dont want to....as I am reading this it makes no sense..

 

[kotori]

"But I didn't have the salmon mousse."

I that movie.

 

[sexy-girl]

thank you to you both for sharing that ... it does make sense and i think i can understand some

i wont say my life is without fear but its not about success or failure i dont know what it is ... i love the good bits of my life so much i guess the only time i get scared is of something hurting those good bits

kotori i knew someone would think this thread was about the movie

 

[activesense]

On fear of success...

In high school, my sophmore year I was the backup quarterback - my dad was the assistant coach, the head coach's son was the senior, starting quartback (kid I grew up with). At the end of the first game, we are winning, so they put me in and I throw a touchdown pass on the first play! I have success! I feel confident - but I knew I really didn't have to play much.

The next two years when I was the starter I was always afraid of making a mistake but also afraid of what would happen if everyone exprected me to do well all the time - so I struggled, playing well sometimes and not at others...

It seemed to plague me in other areas of life, what would happen if you knew you could be great - then the pressure to be great would be constant! It is easier to have lower expectations from others and earn praise with less effort than to risk success and maybe larger failure...

Does that make sense...

 

[Ask For More]

It seemed to plague me in other areas of life, what would happen if you knew you could be great - then the pressure to be great would be constant! It is easier to have lower expectations from others and earn praise with less effort than to risk success and maybe larger failure...

Does that make sense...

Well said. When you feel like you have something to live up to it's that much harder. My parents have pressured me all my life, and I've been rebellious sometimes in response. Upon foresight I wouldn't have been as rebellious, but now they don't nag me as much as they used to. One must try and adjust and adapt the pressure. It's possible the hardest thing to do.

 

[sexy-girl]

i've never really thought about this before ... thank you ... it does seem amazingly common

 

[cg_allstar]

what is it ?

It's a Monty Python movie. The real question here is whether The Meaning of Life is better or worse than The Life of Brian.

 

[kotori]

kotori i knew someone would think this thread was about the movie

wow, I made sexy-girl smile. i'm glad you didn't mind me injecting a little levity into your thread.

somewhere on my back pages, i posted the lyrics to the song that eric idle sings in the movie, about our insignificance in the universe, the wonder of it all. it's very funny, but profound too.

 

[Never]

Meaningless.

 

[Nora]

No the question is actually what is 7 * 8 and the answer is 42
seriously but you have to read the book.


Mike
(the first million years wern't too bad, but then I went into a bit of a decline)

Mike, if you didn't live on another continent I'd beg you to run away with me and live as King and Queen of the geeks.

I really, really would.

 

[Smooth_Operator]

Life is but a brief and absurd interruption of non-existence.

 

[sexy-girl]

Meaningless.

i cant believe i didnt guess you were going to say that

 

[Never]

sexy-gir:l
"i cant believe i didnt guess you were going to say that "

Maybe I haven't said it enough lately.
Did you know some dead german guy was hastling me earlier about that? The nerve of some people.

 

[sexy-girl]

you should of said to him that you werent real ... that would of really fooled him because he'd of been expecting you to say he wanst real

P.S im really tired and might not make sense (as if i make much at the best of times)