I just don't understand, it makes no sense to me.?

Question:If the point of life is to be here and to experience it then why do we have to work and go to school half our life. I realise that it is to make money and so you can retire when you are around 50 so you can have fun for the rest of your life. But, when you are that age, as if you want to have fun and go out. You want to do that stuff when you are young.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If the point of life is to be here and to experience it then why do we have to work and go to school half our life. I realise that it is to make money and so you can retire when you are around 50 so you can have fun for the rest of your life. But, when you are that age, as if you want to have fun and go out. You want to do that stuff when you are young.

It's hard for young people to remember, but with older age comes alot of pain and difficulty as well.
I believe our way of living life is about balance. When you're young, it's easier to work. Our minds retain new skills better, our backs and joints don't hurt (as much!), but we must work to survive.
Then, when the time does come that you must endure constant pain and medications, you still have something to live for in that you can finally relax. No work, no deadlines, you live off the money you've worked for (hopefully).
If thinsg were reversed, we'd probably see alot of suicides at age 50.

No-one ever said life made sense.
Besides most of our life experiences happen at work and school. You need to appreciate the things in life that happen every day and be greatfull that you have the opportunity to go to school and the possibility of a good job that you will be able to retire from and then enjoy the rest of your life.
Other people have to work from when they are children until they die just to survive.
Now that makes no sense!

Thats not the point of life.
A lot of people seem to think it is, but if they do, their life must really suck.

Life's about the ride, not the end result. School isn't jsu tpreparing you for latr life, it's meant to be an experience and 'life' on its own. It's your school life. after taht you can get a job, live young, become parents, start a family or do whatever you can in life. You don't evne have to retire when your fifty and 'have fun'.

Life's about the ride. Money just makes a lot of pleasure possible, but its not the point of life.

The meaning of life isn't to have life.
The world doesn't care about anyone enough to want us to have life for our own benifit.
The meaning of life is to keep the world populated.

Fun when you are young is relative to your experience. Whatever you think i fun now is based on the life you are able to have because you are young - no real responsibilities food, home, clothing etc provided for. Fun is stuff you do on someone Else' time and money - your parents or providers, your fun comes because of this. As you grow away from being dependant on family your fun comes from the growing away and setting up on your own - no longer is it actually so fun to be doing things you were doing whilst in school there are new fun things, then perhaps the next fun comes from the next stage in life where you have a firmer platform and you want to extend your fun to include others - having a family etc..... 'Fun' is totally relative to you life experience and where you are at there is not one brand of fun that only youth have the monopoly on. Life isn't all 'fun' it is other things as well - experience, challenges etc fun is what children have life is what you have as you grow older and the fuller you fill it with a range of experiences (deep and rich not only superficial and fun) the happier you can be to know you have lived a full good life full of fun and other things far better.

That's life! It used to be that old age was at about thirty-five years for the common man in North America. That's when the British had her colonies in here. It was tough and backbreaking to live here.
We advanced and it came to the point that we lived longer but we worked every day of our lives till death parted us from the barnyard, and farming. Some of them had savings from forty to fifty years that they could live on, but that would just buy the basics for what was left of their lives. Then in the twentieth century work was still a part of life and it usually started at sixteen in an apprenticeship and they were well into their seventies before they could stop a daily job.
Somewhere in the nineteen sixties the government brought about a mandatory pension plan on our paychecks and it did not mature until we were sixty-five.
These days? It's a common thought that we can retire at fifty-five and spend our golden years on easy street as we wish.
I don't think so. Not for the common man.
We earn our daily bread by the sweat of our brow and if we don't? Then we earn a place on the streets to panhandle. It has always been that way and it will always be that way.
You work now to live and you work for the future to survive and you work in retirement or your body dies before it's time. We are engineered for occupation of one sort or another, or our life slowly sinks into oblivion.

It has no sense But look at it that way -> When do you feel happier more alive? After you've done a considerable amount of homeworks or you've been off all week doing nothing with friends that always wanna know whose boyfriend looks 'cutier'

terrific question.

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology —often more profound than they realize—though family teaching may function very informally.
Fundamental purposes that have been proposed for education include:

* The enterprise of civil society depends on educating young people to become responsible, thoughtful and enterprising citizens. This is an intricate, challenging task requiring deep understanding of ethical principles, moral values, political theory, aesthetics, and economics, not to mention an understanding of who children are, in themselves and in society.
* Progress in every practical field depends on having capacities that schooling can educate. Education is thus a means to foster the individual's, society's, and even humanity's future development and prosperity. Emphasis is often put on economic success in this regard.
* One's individual development and the capacity to fulfill one's own purposes can depend on an adequate preparation in childhood. Education can thus attempt to give a firm foundation for the achievement of personal fulfillment. The better the foundation that is built, the more successful the child will be. Simple basics in education can carry a child far.

We are all here for one reason...

Because our mother CHOSE to give us life!

Capitalism at it's best. Try one of the socialist countries.