I wish I just knew, simply put, a straight forward answer for why are we here and what should I do? What am I supposed to be doing? What’s the best thing to do? What does God want me to do? What is the point in living right now?
It just seems so pointless. “Helping others” seems the highest serving purpose I can come up with, but looking even slightly beyond that it still seems all completely pointless. My existential crisis game is strong lately.
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There is no intrinsic purpose in life. You’re not here for a ‘reason’ or ‘plan’. You’re here because two people copulated and brought you into this world-same as everyone else.
You need to find your own purpose in life if you feel that life is worth living. In my case there are things I’d like to do like travel and basically live a hedonistic life once I am financially independent.
Should my life really suck with nothing to look forward to, then I will at some point try to end it-but things are going well for me for now-so I’m just going to ride that wave.
Don’t look for any philosophical wisdom reading books about talking snakes, evil apples and so forth. Primitive mythologies have no use in our time-I’d suggest reading science/philosophy books.
Nice gem of an answer
I very much get where you’re coming from. I think ‘helping others’ is probably the best you’re going to come up with. Human life provides extraordinary capacities for enriching experience, but this is frequently overshadowed by massive amounts of suffering, much of it avoidable. Exposing yourself to that reality may help to provide the motivation that you need to act. Identify the obstacles that block human flourishing, and think of what you could do, however small, to help.
Thanks for all ur responses. I guess no matter what people write I’ll always feel stuck, but it’s still appreciated