Life is a complicated 'math question'.

Life is a complicated 'math question'.
Sep 29, 2007 01:47
ZOEY Points: Join Date: Nov 29, 2004 Status: offline	Firstly, I declare: I am not a man of calculation. I seldom calculate on life. Occasionally, it occurs to me that how many days has been left for me. I can not remember clearly where a classic monologue comes from: Today is the first day of the rest of your time. The reason why I want to do such a math quetion is that I felt life is transient, and often life is fraigile. I am wonering how we can live a full (or to say 'meaningful) life. What are the differences between a full life and an empty life? Before we further this discussion, IMO, it is necessary to calculate a math question: how many days are there in our lives? In the whole lives, we havel only over 20,000 days. However, we have to spend 1/3 of them sleeping, and 1/3 doing other activities such as eating and entertaining. Only the remaining 1/3 time, about 7,000 days is for us to study and fulfill our dreams and obligations. In these 7,000 days. 1/3 time was consumed to study( assume that you obtained a bachelor's degree). So time is very limited for us to do so many things. In the limited time, how can we live a full life? I don't want to feel regretful when I willl step into the grave. Once upon a time, I was confused about life. How to distinguish a full life and an empty life is still an unsettled question. We can talk about this issue. I am anticipating your valuable opinions. By the way, is life a complicated 'math' question?

Sep 29, 2007 01:47

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Firstly, I declare: I am not a man of calculation. I seldom calculate on life. Occasionally, it occurs to me that how many days has been left for me. I can not remember clearly where a classic monologue comes from: Today is the first day of the rest of your time. The reason why I want to do such a math quetion is that I felt life is transient, and often life is fraigile. I am wonering how we can live a full (or to say 'meaningful) life. What are the differences between a full life and an empty life?

Before we further this discussion, IMO, it is necessary to calculate a math question: how many days are there in our lives? In the whole lives, we havel only over 20,000 days. However, we have to spend 1/3 of them sleeping, and 1/3 doing other activities such as eating and entertaining. Only the remaining 1/3 time, about 7,000 days is for us to study and fulfill our dreams and obligations. In these 7,000 days. 1/3 time was consumed to study( assume that you obtained a bachelor's degree).

So time is very limited for us to do so many things. In the limited time, how can we live a full life? I don't want to feel regretful when I willl step into the grave. Once upon a time, I was confused about life. How to distinguish a full life and an empty life is still an unsettled question. We can talk about this issue. I am anticipating your valuable opinions. By the way, is life a complicated 'math' question?

Sep 30, 2007 02:07	#1
GRIZ326 Points: Join Date: Jun 12, 2006 Status: Offline	If you are respectful to your parents, brothers, sisters and children throughout your life; and are fortunate enough to have your last days with a person you truly love...could your life have any more meaning?

Oct 9, 2007 03:47	#2
ICEBLUE Points: Join Date: Aug 30, 2007 Status: Offline	Yeah, it is really a complicated question. Life is short and precious. 60 or 70 years is just like a blink. It is hard to define what a meaningful life is. How to distinguish a full life from an empty life is another hard nut. Probably, Griz is right. However, what he said sounds too trivial. Are there som things more lofty and prominent?

Oct 12, 2007 11:44

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Life is what you make it. You can be mean and self centred or pleasant and helpful...or like most of us, somewhere in betwen. You can believe in your preferred god and an afterlife or you might not believe in anything spiritual at all. If you have beliefs, a meaningful life is living to a morality largely set by others. If you have no beliefs, you might believe (haha) that life has no meaning, so you cannot have a meaningful life, or you might set your own goals and values and your life will be meaningful if you live within them. Thus, a meaningful life can be different for each of us, or it may have no meaning at all. Another person's meaningful life might be meaningless to me, and vice versa.

Personally I don't subscribe to the idea of a meaningful life, but I do have my ideas of morality which I try to live to. If I help others I believe I am making good use of my life, and some people will be remembered for what that have achived, but I don't believe any of these things makes a life meaningful.

So I am happy enough with Griz's not so trivial position (HEY that's a first), and to Iceblue I say thatthere are loftier matters if you choose to make them important - that is your choice. Sadly, I'm not sure I'm going to end my life with someone I love - ah sh.t, not everything works out!)

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