So, what exactly is life?

Produce children.. When I read that ..its so true.. So mundane..right? I think birth, job, marriage, children, and whatever..are just like those stations that we get down at when traveling in train. Ultimately, there is nothing to life..shunya..Gandhi will be forgotten like Buddha, and many before. Obama will be forgotten like Lincoln and many before. Nobody was ever important. Nobody will ever be important. We just fool ourselves that we are important and we matter. LOL

We have been given life and I accept it with gratitude. As the great poet Avvayar had said it is rare to be born, and that too to be born with all faculties is an even rarer gift. I do not know what the meaning of life is. Honestly, this is too great a topic and subject for my limited intellect.

yes you are given the gift of life and are force to go to school for 12 years and potentially 8 more years in universty n work topay for ur post education to universty or you must work to barely make payments..rent ,, etc..by time work all time and pay everything leaves not much but then you get to enjoy life when you get older and get settled and if your lucky u become rich provide that for family and give them best future can possible by giving them a work free stress free ife lol seems like bit of cycles... beat of luck

What u said is just about us and what happens around our life. But there is one more life which is recognised by all. Ex. Mother teresa, Though she is no more, her services were recognised by the entire world . The things which we use in our day to day life were invented by someone whom we dont even know and not seen either but when someone ask us who discovered an electric bulb or TV, or fridge , immediately we tell their name. In the same way our life has definitely got some meaning if we use it in the proper way and the whole world recognises us even after we are no more

Wow, i never thought of that until now, I am not a religious person but what i learned from the church was God created us to inherit the earth. From what you said, i could see that life is just a cycle. But what is our ultimate purpose. I think we were created in order to die and go to heaven? And before we could go to heaven, we must pass the test God has given us. Growing up, getting a job and get married are but parts of our journey towards our ultimate end. So the purpose of us being born, for me, is to be able to take the journey to heaven to live with God in his kingdom. This is just my analysis.

It is true, we are born without our consent. We, however, realize that life is a gift! Those who believe in Religions, says that life is a gift of God, while atheists, however, say they were lucky to be born (at least some of them!) Living well or living badly, depends on the circumstances in which you live, and also from the other side right or wrong choices we make. Many have always posed the question: What is the meaning of our life? I believe that the task to find out, waiting for us! Living entails certain sacrifices, such as work, sweat and other things, but siasmo also rewarded by the pleasures that sometimes our life offers us.

Humankind has wrestled with this question for thousands of years.. What is life? I would say that life simply is.. It doesn't mean anything, it is just lived. I feel that we take on physical life for the soul, spirit or true self or whatever you want to call existence, to learn. To learn the challenges of the physical body with its desires. As a Zen practitioner, I have often got the sense of Self as just being. No thought, still mind... Just observing and listening to the inner silence. There is no reason for being, so therefore experience is unreasonable.. What it is, is a mystery and I don't think anybody can give an answer, only point the way in which we may be able to realize it for ouselves. No, we don't ask to be born and live our life, because only rational mind asks.. True Self is beyond the ability of reason and cannot be rationalised. Nobody in history has managed to do that. The great masters tried, but I am not sure that humanity was ready.. Will it ever be ready? That is a question we need to ask now I think.. _Derek

interesting you ask that. unfortunately, there's not solid answer to that. life is a journey we get to travel before reaching the final destination. and this journey just happens to include school, job, kids, marriage etc. in the end we may love it or we leave a bit bittersweet about it, but in tookhe end we at least know we came to the end of journey alive (old age) and it makes us proud and happy to leave in peace. thats pretty much what life is journey to be lived, but its your choice how and where you steer the wheel, hopefully is only to good and successful destinations.

yes what you said is a normal process of life, but we also have a choice if we want it that way or we want something else. the only choice we can't make is to be born and die but the rest we can.

Life is to get success from different situations. Life is to help others, to be happy and let the people happy in just my opinions. The people who live for others is a successful life and to give happy to others is a key to get success in life.

If we see life as plain as that there is no meaning in it. But if we see life beyond that routinary cycle then we can find the real meaning of life. Life is what we make it as the saying goes. For me life has full of meanings and I really wish to live forever and see all the good things in life. We are the one who can make the meaning of our life.

I think that school and jobs are things that our government required us to do, but without it our goal can not be accomplished. I think that we create the meanings of our life. Well it's all clear that we're gonna die someday - sooner or later, but we shouldn't think about that. All we should do is to chase our dreams and every each of us has a different dream and different view of life so that's a very extensive question.

life is a gift of nature in which you are here to live in a meaningful way....be specific live in a hard way...this is kalyug and no one is happy im this world...try to minimise your sins as low as possible and try to get "moksha"....this is the ultimate goal of life,,,...

I agree with you that life is an opportunity to create a meaning. At some point we get confused why our life's like this, problems and stuffs like that which would test your true character as a person. I guess, Life teaches you how to be strong when no one is willing to catch you when you stumble, teaches you how to be wise when everyone seems to fool you with words, teaches you how to stand on your own when you find that there is no one who can save you from anything. Life is about finding your own self, creating meaning and purpose within yourself, and by inspiring others, you create a meaningful and purposeful mankind.

Hi Vijayanths Well, I had misjudged the meaning of life when I was healthy and spent most of it running after so many things... chasing them for no real good. Today I think that Life has just one meaning and a quite simple one (thought quite different for different people) - LIVE! and Enjoy. The moment is right now... and there is no other moment that can be important to you - if you lived this moment it adds to something for you else... you just are heading towards your sad end.

What if life itself is already a meaning? Being alive perhaps is for us to appreciate what life is. There is pain so that we know how to appreciate when we have no pain. There is sadness to remind us to appreciate happiness. Yes, happiness is the meaning of life. The love we got from our parents makes us happy. The job we do makes us happy. The wife we married makes us happy. The child we got makes us happy etc... All those happiness makes us love being alive. And when we can sacrifice ourselves in times of emergency for someone that we love, it is the meaning of life for us.

Yes we are born in life without our consent thats true, and all of that you mentioned are true also, but life is not a routine, we humans have succeded to make life a routine.. having a family and all is a goal not a routine, you either set it or not..

In my opinion, life is about living your everyday life. There are times where we succeed and fail. During the times we fail, we must try something over and over till we get the hang of it. Sometimes, it's too much to bear and the quitters die. Why? They had no support. :/