Are there any special purpose in our life other than eating, drinking, sleeping, making merry, quarrelling, amassing wealth, criticising others and such other silly things?
Yes there is.Literature science, love of outdoors.In essence a love of life which is a matter of luck as who is born and where they come into this world.To live well one needs food, shelter, sanitation and some disposable income to provide choice.If one lacks any of these items then existence rather than life is the outcome, a situation endured by millions around the world with little or no hope of escape.Hence if good fortunate smiles on us we should not complain about our lot but find our own meaning through our own actions.
There is no special purpose to my or any other life, to think so is delusional. As life forms, we evolved to survive and reproduce. That's it.
There is only one intrinsic purpose to life, and that is to perpetuate itself. In order to do that, living things engage in eating, drinking, and eliminating waste to preserve themselves until such time as they propagate more of their kind. Humans and some of the animals we share the planet with create any of the purposes beyond the rudimentary. Humans have honed this purpose seeking to a fine edge and have thus convinced themselves that they are somehow special in the overall scheme of things.
You could make it special by volunteering for a cause that speaks to you, or caring for an ill relative, or mentoring a student (Big Brothers/Sisters?)
Or having fun could be plenty for you!
I think you may have slightly overcomplicated things...
I'd basically boil it down to just, "Eat, Shit, and Fuck."
The eating & shitting are obviously related: the soil from which the food grows is more or less composed (or composted! Ha!) of decaying plant matter. The most efficient way of synthesising this plant matter into a usable form for supporting a new generation of plant life is for something to eat it... then shit it out. Said plant life has produced both the oxygen and food sources integral to our evolution- the current product of this evolution being a creature so unclear about it's place in the world that it feels compelled to ask questions such as this...
I would assume the Fucking bit is pretty much self-explanatory: it's fun.
An even better response from Jerry Garcia!
When I was just a little young boy,
Papa said "Son, you'll never get far,
I'll tell you the reason if you want to know,
'Cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go"
Hey, everybody, let's have some fun
You only live but once
And when you're dead you're done, so
Let the good times roll
Creation, imagination, serving others. Pretty much my personal, self-imposed, purposes.
I create art and music and literature. These things enrich those who view, touch, and listen to them. They are not about money, food, drink, merriment, criticism, or quarreling. Each one affects those that come into contact with them on an individual, personal, emotional level. I only hope they are enjoyed and speak to a person's sense of joy. If they aren't? At least I did what I could. I tried. I made. I gave.
Well, there could be universal purpose and local purpose. Local purpose could wind up contributing to a universal purpose, but I don't see some grand scheme that humans are playing a part in. Even if we have a local purpose playing a part in a bigger scheme, there really isn't a way for us to figure out the universal purpose. Either I'm just not privy to that grand scheme because of my limited thinking ability and also being one of the subjects in the "experiment" with no knowledge of anything outside of my immediate local environment or existence or perception, or there isn't one.