What do you live for?

I am 70 yrs old now,all my friends and family are dead.I am isolated a lot,live alone,and have physical problems, very bad feet.Once you getthis old,and yer friends are all dead,it;s very hard to find a reason to live longer.Your friends are dead,wife or husband dead,and I have no kids.(people with kids are bad off the same).I used to have a reason to live,just to survive;that can really exhaust you,and you get old very soon.Since I surviv4ed way past anyone,it's very lonely..this computer is constantly giving me problems,I will dump very much computer stuff except to buy thing,snd do simple drawings.this hardware is awful.yes,I have no reason left to live.surviving is no longer important when everyone is dead,and yer old in body.

Not sure, as I was dropped off without an owner's manual, but from what I can tell, it has something to do with loving God and serving those around me.

It's an interesting question, one that has been bothering me as I get "older" (I'm a few years short of turning 30).

The short answer is I'm not sure. There was a set of paths ahead of me in life and I chose one, more or less arbitrarily. I'm not sure how cognizant of it I was. I think most people operate in this manner.

The long answer is that I'm not sure nor am I sure where to start. This is one of the areas where I think religion proves incredibly useful in that it gives followers a set framework and rules for existing in the world. Finding meaning in your own life is a messy and complicated task. I see the appeal of giving that power away to some sort of authority. In return you don't have to think about these challenging questions.

Must one have something to live for? I expect it's pretty common not to know, and to keep going from day to day driven by base animal instinct to survive. Many of the common answers are just rationalizations.