The Meaning of Life

The meaning of life isn’t impossible to define. It’s all about communication, understanding and service.

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[TommyApplecore]

I was a carpenter/joiner by trade ... One day . over thirty years ago . I found myself clambering about putting a roof on a house ... It was a cold day and it was raining intermittently . not enough to say we were "rained off" . but enough for me and my mate to be thoroughly Pissed off ... I started grumbling about Life and why was it making me Do this? . on a day when other people were tucked up in nice warm offices . why was I stuck twenty foot in the air knocking nails into bits of wood? ... My mate . who was a lot more philosophical than I was . told me to stop complaining . "Think of it this way" he said .. "we are . literally . putting a roof over somebody's head"
That thought cheered me up no end . and we spent the rest of the day knocking nails in while exchanging fantasies about the people who would soon be getting up to all sorts in the bedrooms below us! ... Happy day!

[chase_h.]

In short, the meaning of life is to give life meaning.

[HAN]

The meaning of life is to distract ourselves from the meaninglessness of life.

[Lunarri]

for me, the meaning of life has always been to improve yourself in all ways possible while also assisting others to do the same for themselves.

[atwaterpub]

"What we seek is not the meaning of life, but the experience of living fully." - Joseph Campbell

[matthewharris]

The meaning of my life is to enjoy it and damn it I will.

[Federerking]

Man... I'm in a business school and I worked hard to get where I am today, but I just don't see why I put all this effort, why I wasted all this time on this, I don't have any scientific knowledge nor something really interesting to do, finance sucks, there is no value besides making money, I truly don't know what is the meaning of this life, all we do is go to school, work for companies and die. This isn't how its should be, knowing that we all going to die, we should do what we really love to do, just imagine if no one had money issues how great our living would have been, people living for there passions...I'm pissed of this life right now...

[jamesosullivan]

I have an expression I truly believe in: 'life's for living'.

Enjoy yourself, take care of yourself and take happiness in the simple things - that's my meaning.

An espresso with the bird on a sunny day in Dublin. That's meaning folks.

[puneetsharma]

Quote by Stephen Hawking - "We are a way for the universe to understand itself". it never ceased to amaze me how succinctly this quote answered one of the age old questions. But what was missing here was communication and service, both of which are extremely important as well.

[demianhaki]

It should be added that science does not speak of survival as the "meaning/purpose" of living things in a normative sense, only in a descriptive sense. Science considers life/nature to be void of any normative elements or objective meaning, so that we are indeed left to make do with whatever subjectively meaningful things and experiences we can find.

As the video mentions, any sense of value or meaning in an objectively meaningless universe can only be the result of whatever sense of value we subconsciously project onto the world and some of the things/experiences within it, or in turn, whatever meaning we perceive when we look out into the world.
Thankfully, unless we currently suffer from an emotional disorder like depression, we can never get rid of our ability to perceive some things/experiences as subjectively valuable/meaningful, no matter how often we tell ourselves that life is objectively pointless. It is an inherent part of our human nature and, more specifically, an unavoidable result of our evolutionarily-developed emotional capacities. Our human brain had to develop an affective/emotional capacity to evaluate the world in terms of etc impressions in order to allow us to pursue or avoid things and, thus, to be able to make any decisions at all. After all, a mind that cannot construct preferences is a mind that is unable to make decisions.

Hence, we are left with a mind that cannot help but find certain things valuable and or meaningful. This will include some of our basic human needs, like food, drink, sleep etc. as well as more complex and individualistic interests that our cognitively sophisticated mind can conceive of.
The categories mentioned in the video are definitely among the prime candidates for what is likely to contribute to a human sense of meaning or happiness, but the list is certainly not exhaustive. Basically anything that an individual can identify as something that is in itself subjectively meaningful to them can be the foundation for a meaningful life. Many things, like companionship, service, self-expression etc. are likely to apply to many people. But some people might find the greatest subjective meaning in being a solitary collector of bugs somewhere in the woods of Scandinavia. 
The variation among conceptions of meaningful lifestyles are immense. Still, as individuals, we have only a single one. Our own personal conception of what we find meaningful. A lot of which we might have in common with others, some of which is exclusively interesting to us. In any case, we have to get to know ourselves well and figure out what it is.

[rn]

I get this video. Life itself is meaningless. However, we ADD the meaning to life.

[kafkawood]

"Meaning of life is to create conditions to have more time to ponder about it." -me

[seeker]

I always see it like Camus did: Just be conscious about the insignificance of life and the existing borders, but be confident and happy about it and just find joy in everything you do. I personally enjoy nature, literature and music because things like the smell of grass, the beauty of words or just the emotion of my favorite songs are remarkably soothing for the mind.

[kennylong]

Life has the meaning we give it. We are the final judge, and measure of everything.

[GhostSamaritan]

What if it's a paradox; the meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.

[zego]

To me the meaning of life has always been to find meaning for yourself, meaning that it could mean absolutely whatever you want it to be. So you could either be pessimistic and say there is no meaning because you can't see any for yourself or be optimistic and find something you are passionate about and let your meaning come from that. However sort of ties in with that and adds a new unique perspective and is interesting to think about.

[omaralcazar]

For me the meaning of life is to discover, discover and learn everything that is or can be. That's what humanity has been doing since the beginning.
Of course I won't be able to do it myself, nobody can, but every contribution is accepted and everyone has contributed in a way. To discover.

[brianfugate]

I feel that the meaning of life is derived from our relationships with everything around us, like our inner relationships (relationships with ourself, so to fuel our ego or abide by our moral compass) and outer relationships (relationships with people, things, money, and everything beyond ourself that we have a relationship that brings us joy, or fulfillment). And to find happiness, or meaningfulness in your life you need to prioritize the relationships that bring you those things. So to find meaning in life you need to find what is meaningful to you as an individual because you will never find true meaning in a universal message that shouts the meaning of life, because there is none.

[adibthqif]

this channel had triggered precise and critical insights into our own weaknessess as a human being. We merely have the time to think about our own sheer existence but the school of life rekindles our deep and profound thinking thus improves the intellectuality of our society. Keep going.

[tonkabohne]

Even an organism does not have to find a meaning to exist in order to exist. Human beings are the only creatures that are concerned about the meaning of life and stuff like that.There is no meaning of life in my opinion. It's not “to be happy” because some people end their own life early? It’s not to “go to college” or “get a job” because some people don’t even make it that far..
The meaning of this life will never be understood unless we know why the universe and all these stars and planets exist. We cannot perceive the size of the universe. Maybe the meaning of life is for the human race to acquire enough knowledge to answer that question OR the only meaning life has is whatever we personally say it has... I really don't know.