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Living your life for someone or something gives your life meaning

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CadmarLegend

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If you cannot live a life for yourself, but you live it for someone or something else, does that mean your life has a meaning?


edit: I'm ok btw. Was just asking a question I wanted to see the answers statistically to. :blob_melt:
 
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Paul_Tromba

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If you cannot live a life for yourself, but you live it for someone or something else, does that mean your life has a meaning?
I personally believe that one's life can only gain meaning through serving others willingly. That doesn't mean you have to give up your hobbies or desires but it does mean trying your best to help those around you no matter who they may be and putting others before yourself.
 

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Shackles. Bonds. Restraints.
A shattered existence held in servitude for the benefit of others.
 

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If you cannot live a life for yourself, but you live it for someone or something else, does that mean your life has a meaning?
Yes because it has a meaning for that someone or something. Sometimes people are just hanging on because someone else is alive and if you were that person that is keeping the other there, that is a great meaning
 

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Depending on how you define meaning, I believe that it's impossible to live a meaningless life in the truest sense. It's like how 'zero' is a concept that does not have direct physical manifestation.

The biggest concern about life's meaning is whether your life reflects the requirements of your ego. When the current life does not match it, individual has the impression that their life is "meaningless". They feel like there would have been no difference whether they were born or not, because their emotional makeup only values a narrow aspects of life that they are unable to fulfill. Since they are unable to fulfill their desired role, the logical course of action is committing suicide to free resources for another individual who would actually wish to be in their situation, rather than suffering for free by dedicating everything to another.

Of course, let's exclude individuals who think they live "for" something/ someone else but disguising their egoism behind a veil of deception or ignorance. (Which isn't inherently bad, like any role in society)

With this premise in mind, I will adress the question you address to us:
If you cannot live a life for yourself, but you live it for someone or something else, does that mean your life has a meaning?
Yes, but actually no, but maybe yes.

"Live for someone else": I suspect that not a lot of people would want to surrender all their resources (time, wealth, skills) and their freedom of choice (expression of the self and free thoughts) for another individual, because humans were designed as autonomous agents like most living beings.

However, it's completely opposite for the option "Live for something else", because you keep all your resources and freedom and use your own discretion towards a cause your ego chose. So in fact, by living for that thing, you actually live for yourself. That thing can be the projection/idealization/conceptualization of a real person. Like how you can live "for your family" without being their slave by serving them on your own terms (and comically "serving" them in a completely unwanted way).
 

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My father died 20 years ago when I was about 7yr old years later I once asked my mother how she handled it and kept going and she said if it wasn't for us kids she probably wouldn't have now we're all grown up and she's still going not just for us but also her grandkids it's hard on her I know but she's not gonna stop till God makes her and my Dad wouldn't have any other way
 

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How do you live your life for others though? And what kind of satisfaction are you looking for in that kind of life? Will you be prideful of making someone else happy? What about you? What if their happiness doesn't bring you any kind of joy? What if you see the same person happier with someone else? Will your life lose all meaning then? Will you be jealous? Will you get angry at them?

If the answer is yes, then won't that make you a selfish person. I don't think it is possible for a selfish person to live for others.

And if the answer is no, then I think you are deceiving yourself. YOu are opening yourself to be exploited. Believe me, if someone can take something from you... they will.
 

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Life has no meaning. You just make something up so you can be happy. What you make up to be happy can be up to you. Can be anything. Solme want to live for others, some just want porn.
 

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If you cannot live a life for yourself, but you live it for someone or something else, does that mean your life has a meaning?

The meaning of life? That one is easy.

 

Daitengu

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Meaning? Sounds like a trick question. Cause everything only ever has as much meaning as you think there is.
 
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