Be excellent to each other

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There isn’t one. At least one that you have a say in. Your purpose is to be a part of nature as you always have and always will be. Your purpose right now is to conduct yourself as you are, since that’s how nature made you to be. You will die, as nature has purposed. You will be re-used as nature has purposed. You will never again be in the natural state you are currently in, but you will always be a part of nature.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

The only constant is nature. If it has a purpose, you have found yours.

There isn’t one.

The fact that any of us are alive at all is a cosmic fluke.

You can try to make one if you want but it’ll only hold meaning to you. Isn’t that good enough?

Leave things better than you found them.

There is no inherent meaning; everyone must find their own.

For me, it’s to try and leave my little patch of the world better than I found it.

each of us constructs our own

What does a flower or a blade of grass mean?

Here you go. Choose wisely, or don’t. Most of the options are just fine.

No such thing

Consume nutrients to reproduce.

A life of meaning.

to help others find meaning in theirs

Life itself, the propagation and continuation of it, the creation of conscious structures capable of experience, reflection and influence over their nature - and ultimately defiance against a cold and dead, seemingly endless universe.

Or, for people that like the cold universe, there’s a quote I forgot who it came from: “The purpose of life is to waste the energy of the sun”