(March 6, 2018 at 6:22 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I'm struggling right now and one of the things that I'm struggling with is purpose in life. I'm not one who believes that there is an inherent purpose to our lives any more than there is an inherent purpose to the life of a worm or a tree or an antelope. That's never bothered me before but now I'm facing the chasm of my future and it feels so empty.
I know I'm posting this in the philosophy forum but I'm less interested in the philosophical question of meaning and purpose in life and more interested in what gives your life meaning and purpose and how I can find that for myself, post-cancer.
I think it's a ruse, and it contributes to why so many people are so unhappy. Because we're told from childhood to look for this bigger meaning/purpose in life, and not to waste it, and follow your dreams, and all this language that is trying to point people towards it all being some grand thing. And then people live a perfectly fine life, and they feel terrible about it because they were sold this idea that it should have been something more.
What do you like? Try to do that a bunch. My deathbed goal is to look back and think "I enjoyed that." Not "I changed the world!" or "People will remember my name!" Just that it was nice, and I'm glad I got to do it.
