Okay, so I'm new, and don't have many posts, but, I was thinking about this.....

If you could live your life absoluetly any way you wanted to, how would you live it?

I'd have to think about this hard, but here's an idea:

I'd live my life as happily as possible, with a perfect husband, two children (one boy, one girl), and a job as an author, fashion designer, stay at home mom, or an artist.

I could add a lot to that, but I'll just let you guys at it.

Interesting thread. I'll give it a go:

I am an actress right now but I'm only 17 so I want to go to university to study it professionally, marry my now boyfriend of 3 years (we're promised already), maybe have one child and live in either England, New York, or in my home country of Spain. I'd want to work as an actress or a high school/university drama professor for the rest of my life.

Well, I always say that I want to live my life better than my mom (which should be easy).

Get married to a great guy (and stay married!). Maybe have children. Have a job... either in writing of some kind, or I don't know what else.

I think the hardest part will be the guy. No guy would ever like me cause I'm so odd, got the rebelish thing with gothic-ish, with humor. Bad mix.

But everyone wants the prefect guy/girl and the high paing job. The only thing that would really vary would be kids. Some people might not want kids, some might just want a few, and some might want a lot.

Okay, well just my 2 cents worth,

Later

I think I'd want to live my life so I would make a difference. Not in a big way, like being president, or a CEO or something like that, but I want to make a difference in the small ways. I want to be that one awesome librarian, that really gets kids excited. I want to be the person who always has a smile, or a laugh. The person that has flowers for a sick neighbor, or cookies for the police officers. The person that is actively involved in the little things. Someday, if a guy comes into the picture, great; if not, it doesn't matter. I want to live my life so that someone is better off because I lived.

I want to be a successful Nurse and work my way up through the ranks to become a Director of Clinical Nursing. However, making a difference, for me, is far more important than my job title or pay packet.

I don't want children, and getting married is not really on my to do list, either. But come what may.

I would like to make a (positive) difference for as many people as possible, in a kind of spiritual way. I don't mean religion, but trying to make people realise the good that there can be, and is, in the world, the importance of life and of people.
I suppose this is the reason why I'd like to become a writer, trying to reach out to as many people as possible through my books.

I'm a very devoted christian so I believe that God's got a plan for everyone. From the age of six I've wanted to be prime minister and to this day I still want to be. However, if I one day do become prime minister, I'll try not to get caught up. I don't care what anyone thinks of me at the moment, so why should I care then? I'll listen to the views of others and try not to be married to the job as much as possible! So, future prime minsiter of England [cheesy trumpet theme] MEGAN PENGELLY! YAY!

Oh wow... what do I want my purpose in life to be?
I really have no clue.
To be honest I just hope that on my deathbed I'll be able to look back on my life and know that I had an effect on someone. Whether it was a guy that I fell in love with, a friend that I helped through a rough time or just some stranger who I listened to. It sounds kind of cheesy. But I just want to know that my life did make a difference to someone.

Hiya,

Interesting.

Well, my purpose in life is to serve my country [England], to become a well known Criminal Lawyer, to get married after finishing all my studies in University and have a happy positive life.

Children? I dont know. It's too early to think about marriage, or anything...

My main purpose is to stay loyal to my family and friends, and stand side by side by the people i know, the people who have helped me, and try to return that help. Also, i want to make a difference in the world. We all do. And its been a dream, since always.

Also, i am a keen believer, and my purpose is to Serve my Creator. To fill my heart with the love of God's mercy, justice, and other attributes. To reach as close to perfection as we can, and to attain as much knowledge as possible.

Life is too short. Make the most of it. And remember, it is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities...so make sure you make wise choices, and worthy moves.

Thats all,
Vian

My purpose for life is to live my life for my God. To be a good and happy Christian person. To marry someone who is Christian. To be a much better person than right now. But basicly and mostly to live my life well, learn to love others as myself, and live it for God. Also to help people come God and find salvation.

nice thread so ermm like many of you already said i'd like to look back on my life and say "huh i made a difference somehow" i'm also a faithful christian girl and i also think that everyone has something to do in this world. i may not act like it because sometimes things in life get you down and make you want to quit but it's all part of what we need to learn to become stronger.

i hope to become a writer and help kids like me who have problems. i know that so many authors have helped me during my childhood and adolecence that i think i should pay them back by helping other kids. i want to make a difference in at least one life because if i do then my life would be worth it.

i do want to get married someday and have kids of my own but if it doesn't happen then it's alright, i can always help others

i want to feel at peace with myself, i wanna be happy somehow understand why i'm here on this earth!

i guess mine are lame compared to the ambitions of others but that is what i want

Wow. This thread is a real thinker. Now that I am thinking about it, I find that I want to do a lot with my life.

I want to make a difference. A good difference. That's been my goal since I was eight, I think. I don't know what kind of difference I'll make, how big or small it will be, but I know I'm going to make sure I make a difference.
I want to get a well payed job, I want to research in medicine... so hm.
I do want a family, truthfully. I'm barely in high school and I'm already thinking about that... wow. I do want a husband because I truly believe there is another part of you that was seperated and you have to find them in life. I believe in the soul mate things, and one of my life's ambitions is to find him. But I'll just have to find him on my journey through life. He'll have to find me though.. =]]
But I want a few children. Having myself live on through my family... the thought makes me happy that I won't be forgotten to anyone.

But my true purpose in life is probably to live through what is set out for me. My future is already set for me and I have no idea what it is. I'll just have to find out. But I know one thing is I have to live my life to the fullest. Tomorrow is never promised.

Wow this is a great thread
Purpose in life ... well i think everyone has a different purpose and everything happens for a reason. Even if you don't fufil what you wanted to do in your life you probably helped others in some way.
I'd like the small things to matter, i'm not aiming to create world peace or stop world hunger (of course one person couldn't do that alone, but you catch my drift), i'd like to live a happy life, go to oxford, meet good friends that'll be there for me for my entire life, get a career in design, and have kids and a family. I'm exactly the same way!
Making someone smile, helping someone through hard times, taking care of a fmily and having people who love you, that's what matters to me

God.

Even if I knew, I'd still be in trouble really /replying/ to the actual question. What is the purpose of life? I'm very young to just judge by now. I believe I'm far more mature than a normal person of my age should be--when I say "mature", I mean it in many sections of "maturity". Such an overrated word. Or, may I say, underrated?

I'm still searching, whatsoever. I'd be satisfied if I graduate school decently and without trouble. If I'm lucky, I'll have entered University in 5 years (which I hope to be wonderful...). I've had had many and random ideas of the future job section I'll choose. Since last summer, I've decided. I aim to be a psychologist, or if I qualify; attend the army. That's the basics for now, this part of my life. I understand of course, 13 years aren't the best point of opinion to be used easily because I've got still a lot to learn.

The word "marriage" never has troubled me--I'm not for that kind of stuff. I don't want to stick with something I might regret in a bunch of years. At least, not yet. Neither I can afford the responsibility of a child... I wouldn't be able to take it. I hope I'll have time to think more clearly. I've got other things hovering, stalking my mind.

I want to travel--explore the world, help as much as I can and offer something to my community; little things make difference, important and not. That's what I breathe and live by. Material things don't matter to me.

Apart from these, I wholeheartedly wish I will have find the answer to my questions when I've been gone...

You know I've been thinking about this months before stumbling across this thread. Maybe because I want to get out of the life of the 14-year-old girl that I am, or maybe it's just because I think too much, as my mum always says, or maybe it's both. I don't know, but it's odd..I'm that kid that always knows who her friends are, but still doesn't seem to have a place, I'm the independent one who's head is way ahead of where she is, and has all these plans for years away, but hasn't got a clue what she wants to do this week, or even tomorrow. So where is my head when it wanders into the future?
Well, I want to do what I love. Art, my passion. It's one of the first I've ever known, and has always been right here. Whether I become a photographer, poet, author, painter, or whatever aspect takes my interests, it doesn't matter. If I don't make it as any form of artist, then so be it, I might not even want to be an artist, and keep it as a hobby instead. In that case, I'll be a social worker, or Educational Welfare Officer, or something with a similar description, at least. I think I've always felt the need to help people who are troubled, or just need a friend, even if it's just for a moment.
As for the rest, that's a bit fuzzy. I'll still be in contact with my best friend, who I consider a sister, and will hopefully see her plenty. I'll make other close friends of course, seeing as it's a part of life, but whoever they are I know I'll help them in some way or another.
I never exactly hated children, but let's just say I've never been a big fan of anything but the cute faces that pop up every now and then. Yet over the months, I seem to be seeing a lot more motherly things in my future, with a husband, and two children. Maybe three if I adopt, because I think I'd like that.
For a cynic such as myself, it's almost foreign to be so positive of the outcome of my life, and it doesn't help how badly my teen years are going...But there's something, something that tells me I can do what I set out to do, despite the awful times which I know for certain will come.
So what is my purpose? Well, I don't have one, I have many. 1. To love. 2. To be honest, and trustworthy. 3. To make my family proud(the one I'm from and the one I create.) 4. To become a better person with each passing year, yet to remain as I am. 5. To guide, to help, to always be there. 6. To be happy. 7.....does it matter? This is odd. After all I've written I have to ask: does it matter? Does it honestly matter what my purpose is? What if my purpose changes? What I wrote is true and honest, but I do tend to over-think things, so what if I just need to slow down, forget purpose, and suppose-tos, and paths, and just keep to the present? I think I should give it a rest, and start fixing the big ugly mess I've made, the only person it really, truly affects is me, so I think that's the best place to start.*sigh* I hate my mind being my true enemy, I just wish I knew if my ramblings will ever tell me something truly important, or just waste my time. Shame really, especially for a 14-year-old.

intresting topic but i have two seperate lives that i would chose one that i would have just to prove i can do it another because i would enjoy it so much

the life that i would have just to prove i could to my friends
i would be a professional opera singer and have regular performances at the sydney opera house

marry someone whos last name was tim tam (name of an australian candy that is absolutely amazing)

when im not singing me on the olympic swim teams free relay

have 4 overachieving children



the life i would enjoy the most that i believe i can accomplish

open a clinic in sports medicine with myself as the head doctor

be happily married with the man of my dreams

have atleast 2 kids if that isnt possible adopt

have one of my boys be a star football player

and my girl star volleyball player

but be proud of them regardless!!!

well if i can think of anything else ill be back...

I think that in life everyone wants one basic thing, and that's to be happy. One of the most enduring and fulfilling ways happiness is gained is through love. That doesn't mean marriage and a personal family, it means love for everyone and anyone, giving love and recieving it, not limited to your inner circle family. I'm sure for example that JK Rowling loves people enjoying her books or that a homeless person feels love when a stranger hands them a cup of tea. Love is a very wide area, and certainly - it seems - what life is all about. The meaning of life of love, because it encorporates all that we want and need; security, friendship, family, laughter, peace and happiness and the likes.

As a Christian, I believe God has a plan for us all. There comes a time for a lot of people who feel as though they're stuck in a rut to just say "God, help me" and really mean it, and he will. If you turn to God, I doubt he'll turn away.

My idea of the meaning of life is summed up in a Bible quote:

“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him”
- 1 Jn 4:16.

Well I haven’t really decide what to do with my life career wise but I have some ideas…

I’m only 17 and I’m coming to the end of my first year at college which means I have one year left and then (hopefully) University. I am planning to either go down the psychology or English route as these are the subjects I am enjoying most and most interested in. I probably won’t take a gap year as I worry that if I do I just wont get back into education.

I hope to marry later in life which I plan to do on a beach because it worked out cheaper for my dad plus I only plan to do it once in my life so I want a dream wedding but not too costly. Preferably wedding my boyfriend

I would like to have kids too. I haven’t got a number in my head of how many although I know I would have to have more then one as I fear I would spoil my child if I had just one.

I would like to travel later in life mainly to Rome and New Zealand but as for living aboard I’m not sure. I know I want to live somewhere rural and not inner-city.

My overall main purpose in life is to be happy.

Oh man. I love threads like this.

I want to make a positive difference in the world. The environment intrigues me so I might be an environmentalist. Maybe I will invent something to save our increasingly polluted earth. For my family, I don't want to be a crazy "man-chaser" (for loss of a better word) but I will find someone in time. If I have children, which I would like because I loooove kids, I would make sure that they are healthy and when they go through tough stages, I will always remind them to be themselves because I know that I need reminding sometimes. I want to live in the country with a huge garden so that I can grow most of my own food. And I want my house to be energy efficient. I haven't really come up with a real purpose for my life... but I suppose I still have time.

~Bronwyn

I want my purpose in life to be to bring joy to people and make them forget their troubles for a while by being an actress. Ever since I was ten one of the things that really attracted me to theater was that you have the ability to make people happy, you can make them forget their troubles for an hour or two and get them completely engrossed in the story you are telling. As soon as I realized this theater became even more important to me, because I couldn't imagine a life with a better purpose than that.

Luv ya

I would live happily and peacefully with a woman that i love and who loves me back, have 3 children (2 boys, 1 girl), and I would be an internationally bestselling fantasy author (one to rival even J.K. Rowling). I know this is not likely to happen especially the 2 boys part as no one in my immediate family has had more than one boy. I am already working on the author part but I dought that any literature that I produce is going to in the league of Harry Potter but I hope so.