Some weeks ago I felt kinda empty thinking about the point of friendship. I still don't have a satisfactory answer, but I'm ok with that for now.
interesting!
some weeks ago, i too were contemplating the very same thing, and instead of looking what makes it pointless, you should look for what makes it pointful!
humans are capable of rationalizing ANYTHING.. this includes making everything pointless, or the very opposite which obviously gives you a better life.
those answers to friendhsips i found:
feelings, cultivate the mutual feelings, and mutual thoughts you share. (and constantly hunt for new ones. and create where there are none.)
make the thoughts flow and cause a domino effect affecting the whole of humanity through the acts of friendship.
i smile at a stranger, i know im causing a positive domino effect cause i do it genuinely and the receiver shows understanding (and gratitude) through their eyes.
small act, big consequences.
although it was unconscious unintended act of me, by choosing positive over negative outlook, your whole life changes for the better and that of many others.
the point of life: discover your natural abilities and cultivate them by giving a point for everything. (which means, find what you truly love about life and keep finding more from within and spread it out! for example, for istp's its often sport.)
you must learn to be generous to yourself if you are to stay that way to others.
and the other way, neither can maintain itself without the other.
(and this has nothing to do with ego. ego, is a fictional creature, a mere figment of imagination implanted by negative environment.)
and to what (as well as all the other things) i referred with natural abilities: empathy, without it we are unhappy psychopaths.
Even happiness is fleeting. And notice, while we are pursuing happiness, we are unhappy. So the very pursuit of happiness causes unhappiness.
i would like to point out, the problem is not pursuing happiness, but misunderstanding what happiness is.
many coroprates depend on manipulating this image of happiness.. so no wonder.
happiness itself is something which depends more on the society you live in than the individual.
albeit, on many cases damaging environments can open the eyes of those who decide to do so.
as such, gaining a far greater understanding of what all it takes.
and as sad as it is, it depends on changing the society.
cause we are a group specie.
individual growth has its limits, at some point that limit can be broken only by helping those of your clan/tribe grow.
the point? you only have one life, as far as we know, so you might as well see as much of what life has to offer in that time period... the fact that some day I'll die and there'll STILL be tons of things that I don't know, have never see, tasted, heard, felt or smelled, places I haven't been, things I haven't tasted... that always saddens me a bit.
well, i have a cure for you.
rationalize 5 senses into pointless repetition, and tadah, that repetition is utterly pointless thus it wouldnt matter if you didnt =)
and then rationalize something more complex as complex enough to satisfy you until you do the same thing with it too.
rinse and repeat, until your eather a) einstein or b) happy with what little yet endlessly complex machine you are.
i "wasted" my childhood on games, but it taught me that what they said is pointless, is exactly what they do their whole lives with but in other forms.
but with that ability to see how everything is repetition even if it has never happened, purified my ability to see life for what it really is.
life is repetition, choose to repeat simply or look for more complex repetitions, repetition anyways.
but with latter option, you eventually reach higher control over your life and thus your happiness.