What is the most important things in life?

There is a reason why I asked this.

What are the most important things in life besides Life (itself) Love, Money, and God?
i try to think about what people always want to focus on but never do, What is the most important life besides those, are is that the ONLY things important in life.


Life: Food, clothing, health shelter, nature (Life is beautiful in itself)

Love: family, love yourself, friend, people, sex, relationships (Love of all kinds)

Money: Job, career, millionaire (Money, making money etc)

Music/Art (Music, Art, maybe having a passion my passion and love is music and beautiful Art, this can be excluded if it doesn't apply)

God: (As I am agnostic, I say God stand for Science, the thirst for knowledge of the universe, and all religions, spirituality to me goes a long way. I go as far to say I'm a spiritual atheist)

Is those the only 5 things important in life? I know in order to be happiness usually one of those is lacking, if not all of them. Is life revolved around just these?

Life-Love God-Money (Music/Art)

You can't have peace without love. People who aren't happy usually lack one of the above. Can't be generous and not show love. Wisdom and searching for , and knowledge itself is God to me, when I study nature(life) connect dots it God. Everything included in here besides History and math when it comes to study lol.

Please correct me if I'm wrong maybe I'm over-generalizing.

What's most important varies from moment to moment, doesn't it? But perhaps some things, like love, recur more frequently than others.

I think you left out the most imporant thing in life.
Laughter.

Aside from all the rest, I think the most important thing in life for us individually is to reach our own potential in this life. Leaving this place better off for those who come after us makes sense.

I think it would ultimately depend on your own deep-seated internal definition of what is pleasurable and what it takes to satisfy you.

Some people yearn for procreation others just for sex. Some people find reading satisfying others can't stand it.

Humans are, after thousands of years of existence where long periods of leisure were part of the normative day to day behavior, designed to require long periods of relaxation. Some people find sleeping to be rejuvenating; others find it a waste of time. Some people find relaxation by courting thrills (fears, adrenaline, gambling, risk taking); others find it in silence, darkness, and contemplation.


If anything is True about life, then I think I can safely say is that it defies strict definition. Consciousness, that seemingly ineffable and rare quality that distinguishes us from other animals, is in my opinion (and that of Douglas Hofstadter) a phenomena that emerges out of a self-defining system with multiple levels of abstraction (paraphrasing on my part).

At issue here is that once a system is aware of itself and whatever direction it is taking it can then make alterations based upon this awareness. What makes consciousness so much more reproducible (as that is ultimately what determines success in a system where all non-competitive systems die off; reproducibility)? I think it has to do with its ability to adapt to the widest variety of circumstances.

With the ability to adapt to the widest variety of circumstances comes the ability to embrace said variety. I think we have all heard the aphorism: "Variety is the spice of life." With that in mind I would say that Life does not boil down to anything more or less than you, yourself believe it does.

In my case if I had to go a day without silence, darkness, meditation, and thoughtful contemplation I would probably not count it as a good day, and yet none of those made your list. We are what our choices make us, and our perception of life is the sum of what successes our ancestors had and our own personal successes make us believe it to be.

MTF

@OP
Knowing the purpose of life is paramount, I think most of the others you mention may remain as just events until one knows the purpose of life.

I love you guys comments. ! People Find happiness in different things so I do guess it depends on the person.

savethedreams said:

Money: Job, career, millionaire (Money, making money etc)

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for some reason, this one made me squirm. I would personally replace this with the ability to work - to create - to be a productive, contributing member of society - the ability to leave the world a better place than you found it. Money ill-earned does not bring true joy - does not give the sense of accomplishment or self-worth... to enjoy self-worth, you have to be worth something - and you become worth something by creating something of value - through accomplishments - not really through making money (although often the two are intertwined - though it is the actions/work not the money that make you worth something)

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, & to hear the lamentation of their women.

LOL revolt...

Yeah, dude, you totally left out things like momentary pleasure; the delicate, distinctly Russian beauty of sadness, pain, loss, and longing. You forgot getting ****** up and dancing the night away. You forgot mowing the lawn. You forgot smoking a cigarette after a long day. You forgot cleaning your room. You forgot that really awesome feeling when you drink something cold after you've been in the sun all day and you can feel the coolness rushing down your throat, chest, and stomach.

Happiness, joy, fulfillment, peace, serenity, beauty, glory, love, life, value: they're in the details, man.

Happiness and fulfillment.

Making my dreams real, in three dimensional terms, for others to enjoy. It's a bit of an art form really.

Well, whatever makes me happy. Other than that, not much.

Truth, peace, and joy.

peace of mind.