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

Not personally, I am a very optimistic person. But this is a very common feeling and can be linked to depression.
 
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WMC4PRE$IDENT said:
I feel this often, but then I consume so much lolcow content that it inspires me and I realise that my purpose in life is to give the cows a purpose.

My purpose is to harvest their fruits for personal gain.

Actually wait I may consider killing myself.
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I think many people here's major contribution to humanity will be their lolcow research threads. That will be their lasting human legacy. Well.... unless Shatner posts here.
 
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Sometimes. When I do it leads to a 3 - 6 day existential crisis and then I'm fine again.

Pick up a new hobby, do something for your community, think about what would make your life better.

You'll find purpose, because your purpose can be whatever you want it to be.
 
I get the feeling my life lacks purpose but then I remember that beyond the existential crisis that there are things I do have that can bring me back to reality. Things like having real life friends to talk to and doing something beyond my comfort zone like engaging in something that could potentially become another hobby like painting clay bowls and reading a book about philosophy. For all I know, my purpose may as well be in the realms of posting on a New Zealand fruit farm as an autist online while IRL, it's just being another person in real life who will most likely keep to themselves.
 
I'd like to live in a realm where I don't suffer all the time. It be relaxing to flow in a dreamy kind of world.
 
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If you have no purpose in life forge one.

Find something or someone that you could care about and start taking care of it.
 
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God gave us all a purpose in life in the garden of eden: be fruitful and multiply. That means we should all get bitches and riches. Ain't nothing better than that.
 
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Spending your formative years being mentally primed to feel insignificant and lacking any control over your own life can really take a toll on many. The good news is reality is actually quite the opposite of the conditioning.
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I don't feel like I do. I don't mind going to work but work is not a motivation in and of itself. I just go to work and then try to kill time until the day is over to go to work again.
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Your life can be (and is) so much better than it seems, fren.

I suggest you find some quiet time once every few days. Even just 10 minutes of it. Find a nice quiet spot (toss on a headset with some hemi-sync audio and drown out the surrounding chatter if you have to), close your eyes, and allow yourself to let go of your worries of the day. Turn your attention towards your breathing and let the world melt away. If a thought bubbles up to the surface, then recognize it and let it drift on by like a passing cloud. If done with sincerity - you will feel so much better than you did prior.

Seriously - just 10 minutes is all it takes to get started.

If you continue the practice and get the hang of letting your mind empty out, then you'll start to realize that any thought which does make itself known during this time? Is a thought that is actually trying to help you (this includes getting you to face things you are otherwise ignoring). You really are your own best guidance. Learn to trust yourself, have faith in yourself, and love yourself. The rest will work itself out in ways you never thought possible.

As I said: people can spend most of their lives thinking they have such little control over things when reality is quite the opposite.
 
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