This is the story about how a bunch of males of Tinder caused me to have an existential crisis.
I am not a Tinder user usually or ever because to be honest I am just not interested in small talk or flirting with someone I don't personally know. We are all created different, so if you can that's okay *super likes you*. Anyway, I had a very simple mission: ask males on a "dating" add what they thought the purpose of life is. Yeah, I told you I don't like small talk I just don't see the point when there are so many other important questions like this one or do aliens exists? is marriage just a social construct? why does everyone seem to hate Nickleback? Here are the answers I received.
Colin didn't have his own words, but I appreciate his quote from the classic Bukowski. Tinder might encourage small talk but I was encouraged by this display of knowledge.
However, Nick let me down just a little but keep ballin'.
Tristan summed it up real nice, making self-love a priority but following up by making sure to give. It's easy to take ourselves for granted but we are all we have sometimes.
Christopher's answer just made me really miss the beach. If I was a professor I would underline the answer in red with "ELABORATE"!
I was bound to encounter a cynic on my quest. I had to explain to Kyle that death doesn't discredit life, in fact it gives it purpose because we only have so much time. We all die, so while we are alive shouldn't we live so fully that we leave this earth having no regrets knowing we did everything we could and wanted to? So it continues.
Spencer makes an important point, you don't have to be celebrity or established person to make a lasting change if you just make it your goal to positively change one thing. Maybe start a non-profit, a garden in a poor community, invent something; just try to do one thing.
I got a surprising number of "nothing"s. I never thought to myself that their isn't a purpose of life, but maybe I just want to have something to live for. Maybe some people chose not to see a purpose or maybe they just haven't found it yet.
Nick took a more materialistic approach but come on, puppies and french toast? Count me in.
If you are Colin's employer, please know "high" probably meant he was on an airplane and the lack of oxygen affected his judgment.
I respect Bryce, talking about a personal believe such as faith can be pretty intimidating especially when it might turn away a lot of people. "Religion" gives many people's lives purpose, and as long as that is rooted in love and doesn't break laws (in which case it's probably a cult or something) we should respect that because aren't we all just trying to find meaning in a world that sometimes seems so meaningless?
Tom was born for this. He's right, it's easy to forget among social norms and exams, bills and jobs, that this life is ours and we should feel complete freedom in it.
Chris is self-aware and realizes that we can all have our own purpose of life. Not only is finding a state of happiness important, so is getting rid of what brings that opposite of that whether it's a person, a job, a habit.
So what is the purpose of this article even? It's to get you to think, to encourage you to not shy away from asking the big questions to yourself and others since those are the ones that usually matter most. What is the purpose of life? Very simply I think it is to live and love yourself as well as others. I think it is to get to know the people around us, because we are all important and deserving of being known. I think it is to fully embrace your unique individuality because there is only one you so you should be you whole-hardheartedly. I think it is to help people who can never repay you. I think it is to find our passion then follow it. I think it's different for everyone, but I know there's a purpose for each and every one of us. We are here for a reason, find yours.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”―Eleanor Roosevelt“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”― Pablo Picasso
