女朋友问我人活着是为了什么 我是为了什么而活着的?

我是为了什么而活着的?  

常常思索生活的你，是否想过为何而生呢？对爱情的渴望，对知识的追求，对人类苦难的同情是支配我一生的三种单纯而强烈的感情。如果有来生，我将再次欣然接受这难得的赐予……
Three passions
simple but overwhelmingly strong
have governed my life: the longing for love
the search for knowledge
and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions
like great winds
have blown me hither and thither
in a wayward course
over a great ocean of anguish
reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love
first
because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it
next
because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally
because in the union of love I have seen
in a mystic miniature
the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought
and though it might seem too good for human life
this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this
but not much
I have achieved.
Love and knowledge
so far as they were possible
led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine
victims tortured by oppressors
helpless old people a burden to their sons
and the whole world of loneliness
poverty
and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil
but I cannot
and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living
and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.