Does anyone else feel like they have no purpose in life?

[Doug_Hitzel]

I don't know, does anyone ever feel like they have no purpose for being here?

No matter how hard I try, I don't think I've ever come close to what it is that I have to do to feel like I belong. I feel like dead weight most of the time.

Do you ever get that feeling?

I'm sorry if this comes off as wangsty or powerleveling, but I feel I got no where else to ask this.

The mods can delete this if this kind of thread is against the rules.

It’s not like you got anything better to do. Might as well enjoy the ride.

 

[The Fool]

Yeah I did, and then I literally told that feeling to fuck off by making myself useful in the world by getting creditentials in grades and what have you. But it usually comes back but I do the obvious thing and not go even deeper with it. People give a fuck about me so I can't really start feeling like I got nothing for me. But it happens all the same, I honestly will say go work out or work on your body, intelligence.

you should do drugs

 

[Black Waltz]

I don't have a purpose in life, but you don't see me crying about it

 

[Y2K Baby]

I don't have a purpose in life, but you don't see me crying about it

You're vying about it though.

 

[Red Hood]

Until I've tasted every variety and Age Statement of Scotch Whisky I have a purpose. Find yourself a similar hobby.

 

[Overcast]

With all due respect, why worry about whether or not you have a purpose in life?

Why not just make your own? Live life how you want to instead of feeling like you have to do something to feel like you belong. Whatever that means. So long as you're happy and healthy and not hurting anyone, it really shouldn't matter.

Took me a long ass time to figure this out, but there you go.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

No.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

I do, but hey - I'm not here for a long time, I'm here for a good time.

 

[Joan Nyan]

I have a lot of purpose in life I feel like maybe, I hope.

 

[AnOminous]

I think that life is pointless because it is cool and hip to be detached and careless. What do you guys think?

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

 

[ES 148]

sometimes I like to write fanfiction about disabled people being killed horribly but only in an intellectual sense i swear

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

@The Fool is gay. He had one fucking job and he fucked it up. Good going.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

As a billionaire porn star who became a billionaire by being so good at sex with beautiful women that everyone bought my movies, I must admit that sometimes I feel my existence is shallow.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

As a billionaire porn star who became a billionaire by being so good at sex with beautiful women that everyone bought my movies, I must admit that sometimes I feel my existence is shallow.

Shoulda thought twice before you raped Stoya.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Try to live in a way that makes you content. Not happy, happy is a transient feeling that doesn’t stick around, contentment is more stable.

And no matter what, in 200 years there’s a likelyhood that nobody will remember who you were, so it doesn’t really matter.

 

[Lysol]

"Living is an act of suffering" - some dude smarter than most folks.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

I'm caught in a spot in my own life where I've made peace with the fact that life is universally meaningless, but not worthless. This puts me in an even worse position than I was in before I entertained deep, existential, notions like that.

Unfortunately, I have some manner of adrenal fatigue that not only keeps me lethargic every single day of my life, robbing me of my potential for high-level, high-commitment success, but also it keeps me from feeling like I'm "really here". Like there's some sort of buffer, between my mind and body, that gives me an almost solipsistic sense of presence. Not "the world is a simulation" solipsism, more like a sensation that everything I experience is dreamlike and fleeting, like a fog. That puts me in a pretty bad place, because, in spite of my ability to do things (I love woodworking and making shit), I'm always too 'out of it' to actually get stuff done in a timely manner. I put things off, I don't complete my projects, sometimes I don't even get out of bed. Now THAT is what makes me feel worthless. I receive more existential dread from my daily energy level, than the prospect of death itself.

People say "make the most from what you've got", but I can't even do that, and time's not moving any slower.

 

[Shit Waifu]

I’ve been gripped by rampant nihilism and emptiness ever since my teens, even if some days are allegedly better than others, I feel like I’m drifting, disordered without a purpose, and nobody really gives a fuck.

 

[UncleFezziesPantsPuppet]

 

[Sebben Crudele]

Hobbies help.

I mean, they aren't a miracle cure for hopelessness, but it's really good for you to find a thing you really really like to do. You know, knitting, woodwork, origami, cooking, whatever. Everyone has a small interest like this but a lot of them haven't discovered what it is yet.

Doing a tiny thing like that everyday makes you feel accomplished. Not tremendously, but it's nice, and it's like a mini-purpose.