What is the point of Life?

Thanks guys.  Well I've never read anything about Zen (although I did once start to read Robert M. Pirsig's "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", but didn't get too far).

I do believe I make sense though.

I've suffered from depression myself and have gotten through it... without drugs too.  I just thought one day "why am I worrying about such trivial things, when others are having much bigger problems in their life?" and I snapped out of it.

I'm not happy with with my life, not at all, but I don't dwell on it too much.  I have the occasional bad day, but I can soon filter it all out and be positive again.  I still lack motivation to do things though, which is a still a big problem.


Edited by Geck0 - October 15 2006 at 00:03

Blacksword wrote: ..ok, I'm talking bollards now, but, nevertheless you cant beat a great shag!!

Edited by Peter Rideout - October 15 2006 at 12:08

Peter Rideout wrote: Blacksword wrote: ..ok, I'm talking bollards now, but, nevertheless you cant beat a great shag!! !    Er, I don't know about that, BS.    Having a shag on the floor kind of went out of style in the 70s, thank goodness -- shag carpet was too hard to keep clean:     Fairly comfortable, though.... Cue some of Guigo's cheesy "seduction" music!

Visitor13 wrote: 42.

YES! That book..well series...is AMAZING.
You may have the answer, but do you know the true QUESTION to life??

darkshade wrote: life is Close to the Edge

    
I think it's all about 'going for the one'...    

To always look at the bright side of it... tu, turú, turú tutú turú!

I would say that the point of life knows when with the wax suitably.

JJLehto wrote: Visitor13 wrote: 42. YES! That book..well series...is AMAZING.You may have the answer, but do you know the true QUESTION to life??

Yes, It's "Where the hell is Stavromular Beta?"

Geck0 wrote: Thanks guys.  Well I've never read anything about Zen (although I did once start to read Robert M. Pirsig's "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", but didn't get too far).I do believe I make sense though.I've suffered from depression myself and have gotten through it... without drugs too.  I just thought one day "why am I worrying about such trivial things, when others are having much bigger problems in their life?" and I snapped out of it.I'm not happy with with my life, not at all, but I don't dwell on it too much.  I have the occasional bad day, but I can soon filter it all out and be positive again.  I still lack motivation to do things though, which is a still a big problem.

Still, your photograph (if that is a picture of you, off course) shows a smile. Don't overlook your own feelings. True, people die in cruel ways, like hunger or blasted out because of differences between credos, that sort of horrible things, and it's certainly a bless not to be involved in such tragedies, but we all suffer in our own different ways and measures. Regarding motivation, know this: you won't find an answer to that, unless you search for it (I'm going to get the Nobel and the Oscar for that one). And may I add, motivation is a self inflicted behaviour. Most people act for pleasure; plain pleasure. I have a friend who finds happiness in Actionscript, PHP, ASP, JASP and every web based programming language. His motivation is to beat those languages, master them, and feel like a "man" because of it. Try not to follow him, but explore yourself, your interests, set a goal, one suitable for you (I haven't looked into those velvet rooms enough to be able to tell something more specific about you), also, search for something that allows you not to be you as you know yourself (I think I want my Nobel right now). A change in the conditions helps to discover things deeply hidden on us. Good luck and cheer up, and take care of that depression, it is wise to keep an eye on those, better check with the doc once in a while, if only for the ride and the conversation. My beloved Mercedes knows very much about this, so do I.