The purpose of life, why humanity exists, are we really valuable and important beings, or are we all valuable? These are topics that I have been thinking about a lot lately, but I have not yet been able to find satisfactory answers.
Philosophers, theologians and many thinkers have different opinions about the purpose of life. Unfortunately, I find all the thoughts of these people who devoted their lives to working on a certain subject very subjective. In my opinion, life is neither a science nor a fact that can be explained with words and reinforced with statistics.
The event of living has different meanings for each individual who was born, is still here, and will come in the future. To reduce it to a very simple example, if I asked a high school student who is insecure, hopeless and not in a good mental state about his views on life, he might describe life as embarrassing, while a person who is insecure and has the same characteristics as the person in the other example but is in a good mental state could be more hopeful about life.
Although this example may seem irrelevant, the fact that the event called life varies so much with mental health, which many people would describe as having little value, shows that life does not actually have a purpose. How many people do what they want in their lives, how many people can say they are truly happy, how many of us actually live in the moment? Very few of us. So what does it mean, or why are they positive, that most people have positive thoughts about life, even though they know that they cannot truly achieve happiness and that they do not live their lives in the right way? I explain this with beliefs, experiences and values.
When it comes to the purpose of humanity, there is no purpose of humanity just as there is no meaning of life. The meaning of life is actually humanity, which is a journey that comes together with each individual’s attribution of different meanings to life and has continued like this for a long time. That’s why I define humanity as just an accumulation of memories that have no purpose or even end.
To sum up, as I said at the beginning, our thoughts, writings, speeches, and assumptions are all subjective. I believe that there will never be a correct answer to these two issues, which are very open to discussion.