Why do you think you are you?

“What is the point of living then if all these goals have been achieved?”

To enjoy them.

That is the point of everything we do: strive to manifest the conditions necessary for our own satisfaction and fulfillment. For many people, this actually includes helping others and making the world a better place, though some couldn’t care less.

It is an unfortunate truth that a compromise must almost always be made, in order to reach our personal goals, and sometimes even at the expense of others. I think that most people do not like how it feels to realize and know, that we must cause expense and difficulty to others, in order to get what we want… but the flip side of that is that it’s pretty unreasonable to expect anyone else, or everyone else, to decline to gratify themselves, just because it might cause problems for someone else.

I often emphasize the importance of consideration of others… but it’s a double-edged sword. If you reduce your own achievements, or avoid benefits to yourself, just to reduce your impacts on others… that doesn’t mean anyone else will do the same for you, and especially not everyone else.

@OP:

As for the “why me?” question… it’s complex. I have often considered that “why me,” is actually because we are all the same “entity,” experiencing the world individually, through every possible set of circumstances. My circumstances make my experiences different than yours… but the thing that makes us all alive, could hypothetically be the same thing… just not able to experience itself as all things at once. So maybe all of us are actually the same person, the same consciousness, the same “being,” but experiencing a different, isolated, individual set of circumstances, through some other iteration of the variance of human parameters. Maybe “the entity” is all living things, each experiencing existence from different angles and conditions and forms.

So, why me? Well… i suppose it’s because “the source” must fill every sentient being. I am both “only me,” and also “only you.” I am you, you are me, everyone is everyone… while experiencing existence through a set of conditions that manifests as “individuality.” I am me, because me is alive. I am me, because someone had to be, because an offspring was created, and the source is obligated to fill each being with consciousness, though the physical conditions do vary to significant degree, as do the environmental circumstances of our lives… and so we all seem very different, and like or feel different things, because we are all the same mind, experiencing life through each and every different set of conditions and parameters that occurs… which occurs because of free will, and the choices we all make.

We are here because our parents created offspring, and those offspring had to become alive, because that’s just how things work… and so, the source consciousness enabled each different iteration of life, so that it could experience life, and itself, as itself.

And so i have to wonder… if that thing that makes us conscious, might somehow return to some sort of source pool, after our bodies expire… and whether we will be conscious of it… and whether it will be immediately clear that i am everyone… everyone is me… you are me, we are me, the ‘i’ as is mentioned by certain groups…

But yeah. That’s the best i can do, to come up with a reason “why” my consciousness is attached to this body, instead of another: it’s not “instead of,” it’s “in addition to.” Maybe we are all the same… “spiritual entity” experiencing life through all the varied bodies that are born into varied circumstances.

And if it’s not that… if i and everyone else are all just some strange spontaneous phenomenon… then “why me?” really has no answer, except whatever answer any of us might want to ascribe to it.

Why me? Well… Why not me? I am. I am me because i was born as me. I could find reasons for many of my characteristics and environmental conditions, and see how various causes produced many of the effects of my life… but there is no clear answer as to why my own consciousness is connected to this particular manifestation of a human body. And so, perhaps we are all the same consciousness, experiencing itself and this world, through all actualized and varied individual iterations that manifest into being.