Is There a Purpose to Life?

Is there a purpose to life? For many people, this is probably a stupid question. We are alive. Not just that, we happen to belong to a species that can indulge in abstract thought such as this question. But really, is there a purpose to life? Perhaps more relevant can be can we supply a purpose to our lives? Surely there has to be more to life than just work and shopping. This is what the economic paradigm of the last thirty years has been telling us. We are nothing more than consumers whose sole purpose in existence is to shop and to do that we need to work like dogs. Marketing efforts have convinced a large number of us (maybe all of us) that buying products can make us cool and sexy and help us attract hot chicks (or guys) and make us successful and powerful and what not.

I don't know but this sounds rather sad and pathetic. Work like a dog during the week. Party desperately in the weekend in a sad effort to make it seem worthwhile and don't forget the shopping!