Atheists life motive

[Angrboda]

Purpose? We don't need no stinking purpose!



I'm not an atheist, but before I was Hindu, I was Taoist. Taoism is about accepting things as they are and realizing that things are good "just the way they are." That being said, goals and meaning drift in and out of my life, like waves crashing on a beach; sometimes the tide is out for a very long time.

We do things for a lot of reasons:

• Inertia
  Somebody suggested it
  Our parents did it that way
  It's just plain fun
  Felt like it
  Wanted to do the wrong thing
  It's expected of you...

The reasons will always be there. Maybe there's two levels. The reasons which move you throughout the day, the mundane reasons. And then there's goals, ambition, and purpose. You can have the first without the second. You won't die from it.

Life doesn't have to be all about purpose. Sometimes life is just... life.