i dont know how imp. this question is to you pagaal, but for me i have been thinking of it for years..what do we live for? why do we live? is death just a phase of transition or is it the end? someone above me sated, life is uncertain, which is absoulutly true. who knows, what will happen in 2 secs from now or 2 mins from now, if we cud tell then life wudnt be life wud it? life cannot be solved by mathematical equation (which is considered the "Absoulute Truth" by great philosophers") or by ani scientific experiment. life is life, we live it secs by secs, day by day, just passing thru it. when we are living our life, most of the time we dont even wonder abt how we live or what we live for, we live to survive, which can be best said as "Darwinism", we survive to be the fittest and best of the best, in every way. .. whenever we arrive in mother's womb as a tiny dot, and we grow, grow and grow, then we finally say goodbye one day to this place..life is that transition in between..living a life isnt hard, it follows only few priciples which is there within every one of us. we dont learn from experience, experience gives us opinion, and by far opinion is not knowledge. to seek the real knoledge for life, we should find those principles thats within us, that can be achieved by meditating in silence, pure silence, where none of these abstract from our materail world can reach us. the day, we find those principles and start living by them then for you this life is successful, you dont live to die, dying is a phase just like life, death is also uncertain..(like said by someone else earlier) dont ever live to die, because we dont know whats there after death, and we came in this land to live not to die..so we always need to defend ourselves from dying, (and we do it everyday) everyone of us has a diff meaning of life, but that is not the real meaning of life, all of us have the same principle of life, which is the real meaning of life...and at last possibilities in life is endless... ---confused