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Originally Posted by Radu  My first post here, so hello everybody! |
Welcome to the fray!
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Knowing what we know today, I think one has to be rather conceited to still believe that there is some great purpose for each individual human life, when even the importance of the human species, of Earth itself, of our galaxy even, is questionable given the immensity of Space.
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When I think there is a grander purpose to my life, it is a humbling feeling - not feeling conceited. It is the very vastness of space and galaxies that make me feel humble as an individual. But then to feel a background of oneness seems to indicate some bigger order to life that we are part of.
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So I agree with Stephen. We decide our own "purpose" - not to be mistaken for "destiny".
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Purpose maybe over rated as is free will. We think we have free will - but how do we really know we do? Of coarse we shouldn't act as if we don't have our own minds.
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We should seek that which makes us feel happy and fulfilled and avoid that which makes us feel sad and empty. To me, that's the bottom line of our species' plain, meandering existence  |
Sometimes I think we are our own worse enemies. Trying to make ourselves happy and avoiding being sad may actually leave us empty and unfulfilled - unless we feel connected and conscious it is a meandering.