First of all I want to apologize. This specific question is not meant to attack you or your personal goals in life. Even with this, I still try to follow my own goals and this shouldn't discourage you from doing the same.

With that said, here's the context to this question. As I get a lot older, regardless of my own beliefs on the matter, I've often heard about how important the human race is. Our Achievements and faults alike. The wonders we created and the horrors we unleashed. But the one thing that never ever changes over many millennia is the lifecycle of all animals including us humans. We're born, we grow up, we make more of us, we die and leave the world behind for them to do the same. Animals from the tiniest bug to the biggest wild cat are more content with this because that's all they know. Yet we as a species notice this pattern every day. Some of us try to find means of stopping or breaking this pattern or at the very least try to make the pattern more interesting, by filling it with many goals and desires before they go. From getting a job, to getting rich and famous. Yet in the simplest way I can explain it, we as a species aren't really amounting to anything. We talk and talk about how either the previous generation had it better or that the next generation will make things better, as though everything we grown and died for is meant to lead to some kind of significant endgame, but instead all I see is more people getting born, more people growing up and more people dying. And while some have memorials for those still living to celebrate and grieve, as a whole the one thing we all should be aware of is that any one of us could be dead tomorrow. While I do not believe this, but let's say hypothetically, there is no God, there is no afterlife, there is no spirits. In fact let's expand and say that despite our respect for other religions, that all of them are a crock of shit including mine. That we don't go anywhere when we die and we just don't exist and rot in the ground. Then what was the point of living if there was nothing after? The world is getting worse every decade or so, more people are looking for more excuses to speed up their deaths and the people who are in charge of the safety and well being of our respective countries are becoming more incomprehensible and clueless. Yet despite all the reasons that say otherwise, we have it ingrained in our DNA that we as a species, human beings, are the most important thing on this planet. That everything we do no matter how many people we lose along the way, is leading to some kind of important goal, that neither of us know what.

So my question is, what are we living for?

Why exactly are we here?