Meaningless Thoughts like the Purpose of Life

Initially, I had posited the purpose of life was not in just serving other people as I had been taught by my church, and I assume Christianity in general. I understood then service to mean mowing my neighbor's lawn, as it tends to be used. I deemed that creation/expression in artistic and thoughtful means was just as needful and live and meaningful. I now change that to include 2 others: to commune and to experience. I think still that they who know the most (both inward and outward cognitions) are truly the most free. It is one's duty to seek to learn more--through others and life, rather than simply through the inner conversation present within the mind. We must build and maintain relationships, sharing life's joys, asking to know more, having the humility to invite and need others' contributions, and give and receive courage to push ourselves even farther. Relationships occur quantitatively no matter what. How many of them and of what quality they are is totally another matter. There is something in that d and c verse of seeking learning out of the best books. But I also say seek after activities, people, books, talks and so forth. Determine their value and then seek the best. I submit in soul building, whether it is God's purpose or not. It is mine. None of these processes: service, creation, community, experience will never end, any of them, until death wraps me in its shroud or the great beyond beckons me to do so longer. At least that is how my hopes knit. Growing and changing in alternating pluralistic environments... and it is wonderful. This is eternal life for me as of yet.

To defend "service" as a concept, I know that experiencing, expressing/creating, and communing can all be labelled service in the proper context. The same could be true with any of them: all could be put under experience, or all under expression, and all under communion. Regardless, the point is to further identify the areas of service, the directions in which one takes that builds meaning. Most would not group the rest of these with mowing your neighbor's lawn. Service is meant to be selfless, apparently. I urge more service which directly benefits both the self and others, though of course it may turn in selfless ways too. In other words, the activities need not be sacrifices. They can be fun. But if you wish to be a stickler, and suggest opportunity costs as sacrifices, everything is a sacrifice, which I then believe demeans and lessens the purpose of the word. Argue if you will. Alas...