What's the meaning of life?

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Why does my character do these things? Raid, grind, etc? What is he striving toward? What is his purpose?

After looking at the various grind-threads all up in this forum, you have to wonder, is there more to life than just the grind?

Is life a grind and then you die? Or is there something more out there, beyond the great blue yonder for which we are meant to strive?

We are Walkers of the Path, but what even is our path? Just to grind our days away? Do we follow this path blindly without even knowing where it is taking us?

Maybe if my character could create his own, private, Player-run Company, and build a house, or a ship, maybe then he could look back and say he has lived a full life. Maybe if there was PvP, why perhaps then he could feel accomplisment from taking on foes with similar intelligence. And maybe, just maybe, if there was the freedom to play as he wanted, freedom to play as whatever role he wanted (see armory system), then he could perhaps find solace in that too.

But alas! Woebetide him, for as he can do none of these things, and with no promise of such things in the future either, he shall be forever lost for meaning and purpose.

Indeed, his prospects are looking very grim.

Tell us, why, given life, are we meant to die? (Help us in our cryyy!)

/Susan Calloway's annoying voice.