uh, I dunno, I think I'm pretty useless.

You wanna live forever, huh? That may well be the key to eternal life. I can't die until I have finished all my GOG games, a reason to live.

This, so much this. Or to put it better, without feeling the need to look for more without artificially limiting yourself.

Also, being rich so you don't have to work unless you find something that is worthwhile on its own rather than the monetary or social need. Even then, I wouldn't call it work because I wouldn't do it regularly or consistently. Perhaps a few hours (no more than 4) a day for a week or two but then take a long break and do things I like. I would probably have periods where I travel greatly.

One of my personal purposes would be to find a solution to sleep. I like sleeping and I don't see our capabilities eliminating in any decent fashion so I'm not looking to free up time but rather make sure you always sleep optimally.

You may not yet have a purpose, but at least you have the answer.

/WARNING: grim mode on

There's no apparent purpose in life (no, I don't believe in fantasies created by primitive ignorant men or by modern fanatics).
There's only the meaningless mandatory struggle of each species to survive in this hostile (and probably dying) universe.
But at least you can try to enjoy your temporary life as much as you can (possibly not at the expense of others), expecially not thinking about this. :P

/grim mode off (sorry, I'm an undead, after all)

All humans have the same purpose in life, whether they realise it or not, whether they accept it or not.

To make cats purr.

Well when I said purpose in life The meaning can vary a lot depending on the person, but basically its when you found something you like so much in doing it that you never get tired of it even if you still suck at it. Or maybe you found a place or a period in your life in which things were going so smooth because you were willing to put effort to get through challengens you found. Or maybe it is a really difficult dream that you have that makes you keep working to get more skilled and stronger to reach it.

Whatever it is it gives your life a meaning and a goal to reach.

I make my cat purr all the time, and that little fucker is still trying to kill me.

People say "Coincidence, he just happened to be there" BULLSHIT! Every time, and I mean EVERY TIME, I go down the stairs with a large load in my arms he darts right in front of me! You laugh but he will be the death of tinyE!

Ahh the purr pose of life.

Maybe. I very much enjoy writing in my mother tongue, and I've got a lot of stories to tell already. Not that I'm betting on turning this into a real, day-by-day job, mind you.

It's a bit like GRRM said.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/17/george-rr-martin-game-of-thrones-characters-die-it-has-to-be-done-song-of-ice-and-fire

I knew what you meant ;)
I do have a slight sarcastic person in me (Zeogold stop laughing!). Hence my post was just to make you think a second or two ;)
But the main thing, which is not really a purpose of life, but what we shall never forget: Joy and enjoyment. It is just to easy to forget about what IMHO makes life worthwhile, Joy and enjoyment, even with a purpose ONLY, life wouldn't be anything without this, or? ;)
But otherwise to REALLY answer the question, it would take books to answer.
Why? Purpose does imply an underlying principle, of a conciseness, which leads to the next question: Your own, somebodies else, another higher being, which kind of being, on which level involved, how far involved and and and.
Even if you/we/me JUST assume our own one, which one? The Uber-Ich, the unter-Ich (hello Freud ;) ), the beast, the mood, the intellect, the enviousness and and and ;)
So CAN we really say anything about the purpose? I don't think so. (seriously)
We can be lucky, if we can really describe and live our life in a way to make us enjoy it as best as we can ;)

My purpose in life is to fight against the new world order that threatens to be instigated over us all, as well as the shit-stains who push forward population-control, population-replacement, population-overthrow, society-engineering and society-devolution schemes. My purpose is to fight against the factors who threaten the entire human race itself and its ultimate, future survival. My purpose is to fight against globalists, the *real* neo-nazis and their thugs on payroll, who always masquerade/act like victims and freedom/rights fighters, while actually jeopardizing those (freedom/rights) of anyone else who isn't theirs.

Way to kill all the fun it was actually a pretty groovy thread Bradley. :P Nothing against your politics but calm down friend. XD Think about kittens and rainbows for a few minutes, relax.