What is Meaning of Life?

So this "poll" is all on what is the meaning of life. So what do you consider the meaning of life? What meaning do you derive out of life?

I view life like the day: it has a dawn, midday, and dusk. At first, it looks like we have a whole day to enjoy ourselves or to get things done, but in reality, we realize too late that the day can end pretty quickly. The main thing one should keep in mind is to enjoy the day (life) before the night (death) comes. There are other days to look forward to, but each day has a special something to be looked for. It is a poor metaphor, but I go by it. Living life to the fullest is basically what I meant.

I actually think that's a really wonderful metaphor.

For me, the meaning of life is...to live upto the greatest you you can possibly be in that moment. Sometimes the greatest you is ugly, it's dark, it's nasty, but sometimes the greatest you is beautiful, amazing, bright. Either way though, as long as that's the best possible you you can be, it is enough.

I believe deep inside our souls we must learn a lesson before we can be released to the beyond and rise with the spirits into wherever paradise is, or even what it is.

This lesson can take multiple lives to learn, sometimes in the hundreds. I think we are also in a soul batch of sorts. There are certain souls born to this world to live, maybe a few thousand, and those are the souls, the people, you encounter in every life, just with a different body.

We are neant to influence one another and the way of things with iur daily actions both big and small. As time goes on our soul batxh, so to speak, will begin to have enough wisdom in their soul to learn and lesson and one by one each of those souls begin to be realised to paradise.

To me it's like time flys you try to hold on to it yet it slips. Life has a meaning everything we do is for something in the future. We don't know what is in store for us yet me keep going life is small and precious you see it in a new borns eyes in a laugh in a cry. Live life to the fullest you never know when it will slip from your grasp so live a life of love happiness and laughter yeah some times your life will get sad and you may get angry or depressed but live that's my way..

I have always gone with the meaning of life being that life has no meaning except what you personally ascribe to it. Is anything we mortals do very important at all? Yes, I believe so, because we give those moments spent doing the things we love with the people we love meaning, and all that matters in the life of each individual is what the individual decides matters.

Of course, this is only one level of consciousness. That's the meaning of this life, but there are many more levels of consciousness that we don't grasp because we don't experience them on a regular basis and therefore they don't seem important to us physical creatures.

I have always felt that the meaning of life was to love, explore, laugh, hurt, cry, and generally live life. The only point to it I have really seen is to do and be and exist and enjoy it. Accept the pain that comes and grow.

I have always looked at it like a flower. It starts from a seed. As it grows, it gets beat by the wind and strong rains. But it grows. And it blossoms. And it reaches that peak of it's beauty right before it leaves, leaving a part of itself behind in a seed.

Maybe that made sense. Maybe it didn't.

In a way, I partially believe that the Purpose of Life is what we make of it.

I'm not sure it matters if we live multiple lives through reincarnation or other means to gain wisdom or transcend our current state. I feel like that's definitely a big part of it; that we're meant to learn, teach, and grow. We're meant to love each other, inspire one another, and help each other. We're made to accomplish wonders, to move (metaphorical) mountains, and to change the lives of those around us.

The true Purpose of Life is to live. When you stand on the edge of this life and the next and you look back, look back satisfied, proud, and excited for the legacy you leave behind.

In the grandest and greatest of schemes, plans, and designs, I cannot fathom being made for any other reason.

Well said, GeminiPrince.

I love the lines from Tolkien about death:

"I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things that I shall never see,
in every wood, in every spring, there is a different green."

Forgive me for any inaccuracies, that was from memory.