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Some people, many actually, maybe even most, come up with their own reason sooner or later, and pretend it was a reason from the outside when in reality they themselves filled that void because most humans really need a reason and purpose. Living like animals is too little for most, which is a good thing.
I say this is a troll post. OP hasn't been back in three pages.
I'm even more cynical than OP -- ask anyone on the Las Vegas forum and they'll agree. But I get up every day and not just get through it but kick posterior. Every day. Wake up, kick butt, lather, rinse, repeat.
Why? I fervently believe that my generation is either the last, or the second-to-last generation that gets to do basically whatever we want. We get to eat what we want, drink what we want, and do what we want for a living. Upward mobility is still real (although disappearing fast).
Subsequent generations will live in "survival mode." Just wait until Bangladesh and the good parts of Florida slip under the sea, along with the lion's share of the high-dollar real estate around the world. We are looking at a mass diaspora of humanity never seen before. And those people won't get to eat what they want, drink what they want, do what they want -- and there will be no such thing as upward mobility. Just survival.
I try to live a superior life because that isn't going to be an option in a few decades. Not the way things are going at least. But I do hold out hope that we will pull a "deus ex machina" solution out of our posteriors.
You really should see a shrink. What a sad way to go through life.
Seriously what is the point of being alive? What motivates you/keeps you going?
Originally for me it was my career, my career = ME but i've come to find out that my career does not even come close to defining who I am as a person or my psyche. Now I am kind of at a loss as to how to find out what keeps me going/motivated.
I just don't know any more, is it having my own family one day, people that care about me or friends?
I'm more interested in how you came to think that. Its incomprehensible to me that the point of one's life can be a career. How did you come to think that way initially?
Makes about as much sense as a reason some children are born disabled or struggling to overcome a terrible disease like cancer. Or even stillbirth's.
People seem to demand that there be a reason. There isn't any reason. There is no "meaning of life." I'm just thankful that I live in this time and place -- because I have almost zero confidence in the future. Roughly 40% of the world's population lives only a few feet above sea level. As the seas rise, people will have to move. That places more strain on an already badly-broken system.
As I said upthread, I hope that we can pull a carbon-devouring rabbit out of our technological hat. Barring that, there is little hope.
My attitude is "never give up, ever". Maybe I'm just mean, my therapist said that I have a rage in me from my childhood. When I was going through some tough times and I could not see it getting better, some how I would hang on and it got better. This happen several times in my life. It was a valuable lesson that still drives me now.
I just went through several years of medical issues that had me feeling bad. This last 2 months I have been feeling pretty good. See it got better. When the darkest of the dark happens never give up, EVER!
I'm more interested in how you came to think that. Its incomprehensible to me that the point of one's life can be a career. How did you come to think that way initially?
A career is not the same thing as a job. The way I think of "real" careers is as follows:
First, one has a substantial leaning curve in order to qualify. There is knowledge, skill, competency, and mastery to attain. So just arriving at the starting point brings a certain amount of pride and satisfaction. Then the career is not just putting in one's time for eight hours a day; the hours are probably longer than that, so we spend more time in our career than we spend doing any other single thing. There is continued growth, both intellectually and in other ways. There is immense gratification in meeting the challenges and in being of service to others. Our career is truly what we "do" in life. Doctors come to mind. So do police detectives. And research scientists. And classical musicians - it is hard for me to conceive of the deep, deep satisfaction they must derive from creating transcendent beauty.
We often begin to dream of, and prepare for, our careers as children.
I am aware that many people hate their jobs. Yet I was quite taken aback when you wrote that it's incomprehensible to you that the point of one's life can be a career, so I set myself the task of making it less incomprehensible. Careers can be deeply meaningful and profoundly gratifying. Not everyone hates his or her job. Were you able to relate to anything I wrote above?
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