Svedge, beautifully said.

It is in this cyclical way of thinking that I am happy I that today, I was able to help to share something that could have a little or a big positive impact, depending on how you choose to use this information.

❤️ This makes me very happy. Thank-you!!

This is such a deep thought, thank you so much. Yeah the world isn't the best but it is what it is, so all we can do is do good hoping others will see the good and try to do it too. And to do that i have to try and do things, then if i truly listen to myself i know if I'm doing good or bad. I want to thank you again for your comment, i will keep it in my heart.

"All i have of myself isn't worth a piece of what you have of myself" said an Italian song, now i understand it. We are worth what we leave to others

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I was brought up with the notion that what others teach us or bring to us in one form or another has a great deal to do with the meaning of our existence.

In that way I have always looked at myself through that lense. What lessons do I teach others, how can I be a good role model..

What kind of impact do I want my journey to have had, can I have more than one career that impacts and affectively meets my desire to help others?

What do you desire to do? Is there something work wise that seems like it would be too good to be a job?

People tend to find meaning in interests/hobbies, helping, healing, growing, gardening, raising animals, family, community, religion/spirituality, groups (sports and political etc), education, career, social and sexuality.

It is quite the world we live in atm and it feels like it’s such a pause and fast forward kind of world. I really value your question because it really gave me a chance to consider what it means to me.

Sometimes we just need to start getting out into the world, start with something, then our ability to decipher what we really desire starts to become crystal clear.

Try volunteering aid to terminally ill people. Learn of the things they would have liked to do if life allowed them. Do those things in their stead.

I’m 27 and I travelled for the first time in my life this year. I couldn’t afford it- but I did it anyways and it changed my life. ☺️

Soylent Green is people!

Join a sports team or club. Read. Work out. Seek god. And whatever else people posted here. It helps

Decide what/who you want to be, and then be that.

Try helping others who are not as fortunate in some dimension (eg, bad health, war). Over time and as you face a thankful constituency, meaning will flourish.

My advice:

Get away from social media and pick up some hobbies away from the internet.

I only have Reddit because it’s anonymous. It really fucked me up having Facebook, Instagram, tik tok etc. I would see how happy everyone was and I would think ‘why am I not like that?’ Id post to be like these happy people but I wasn’t.

I started deleting my social media apps one by one, no one cared that I stopped posting either.I’ve been much happier since!

I hope this helps you.

You should think about being better than yourself trying to be someone more important you should go outside to walk, go to the gym or live a healthy life after that maybe you can find somebody that loves you form a family instead of just giving up that easily because o know that you are strong and you can do better than that.

21 and thinking about life like that. Be proud my man!

Same. There are some good ideas in here, though.

A number of people have suggested journaling, and I agree. Another suggestion is to recite a gratitude list in the morning regardless of your faith. If you are here, you have many things to be thankful for. For one, I am grateful for your post, that I had an opportunity to contribute!

"Keep moving forward" - Eren Yeager

My only question for this psychologist is: "How do you put the glass down?"

I would assume she went on to teach exactly that... Though I've been disappointed in the past...

I was thinking at some cheap bmw, we don't really have cheap mustangs here in Italy. At least for now i can have fun in my friend's e36

Bro I'd hug you if you were here. I'm 21 btw. Thanks for sharing your story, it will definitely inspire me

I don't live in the past,

I don't live in the future.

I live in the now,

nothing means nothing

so none of it matters.

This is ripped off from an actual video https://youtu.be/RGTfEfVcMqA

You seem like a wise person. I'm not sure how old you are, but your perspective on life resonates with me. I can only share my own story with you. Perhaps it will inspire you, or perhaps it won't.

But when I began living from my heart, my life took on new meaning. It's hard to put into words, but from then on I knew what I needed to do. Before that, I used to define myself by my profession (as a film director), but now I see myself in terms of my life's purpose.

The funny thing is, I couldn't have found this meaning by thinking about it. I tried, but it's something that needs to be felt. My big realisation was that the moment I think I could not really feel anymore.

I found my heart by embracing and feeling the pain in my life, the pain of love and life. I was able to do this because of a quote I heard: "You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens." Now, my heart is open and I feel both pain and passion, and it is the passion that guides me to my true purpose.

I wish you luck in finding your own meaning, it's a wonderful journey that not many people undertake. The world needs people who question the meaning of life so that they can bring meaning to it.

if you have money, buy a cheap mustang and weld the diff and drift the wheels off it at drift events. Drift events are usually cheap since it is in a parking lot or something. Ton of fun. or get into HPDE if you like cars and driving on race tracks

I recently read The Midnight Library, it did have a lot of cliche lines in it, but my friend said it really helped with that line of thinking. Can also recommend The Alchemist, it helped me through that time in my life.

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