What is the best that you can expect to get from or achieve with your life? I can expect to get out of it as much or more that I put into it. This seems to be a basic law.
Now that I have married and procreated and trying to get laid doesn't occupy my every waking moment, it occurs to me that there isn't much of a point to it at all. The only one that makes any sense to me is the pursuit of the answer to this very question. Thus, for you, answers to questions seems to be a purpose in and of itself. Your responsibility, as I see it, is to ask better and better questions. There is no
final answer that I see you aware of.
dogmafood writes:
What is your answer to the absurdity of life? What guides your compass and where do you spend your time?
I work to pay rent. And buy food. And fix the car. And take my dear Mother out for brunch now and then. Apart from that, I work and in so doing I react with people. Customers. Coworkers. People whom I believe were put in my life for a reason. What that reason is is irrelevant. It is that it is.
I also volunteer my time as a mentor to one lad at a time. I believe that I help them find meaning in life. Meaning is sparked by and through relationships. My response here to you, in fact, may well help you find meaning to that absurdity you speak of. I hope that it does, at any rate.
Finally, I work with
G.R.A.S.P, a local organization that helps youth find a purpose apart from gangs. It is rewarding for me, but more importantly I
hope that my presence makes it helpful to them. Ideally both them and I find meaning and love in it.