[samorozco]

I will say a few things. When things like giving up alchohol happen your brain will do a lot of things to trick back into the drug. Like, for example, making the things you previously enjoyed seem not fun or fulfilling like they used to, all a ploy to get you back on the drink. I'm not an expert.

Speaking from experience the number one thing that gave me purpose in life is kids. There is nothing more purposeful that having something that you love more than yourself. I tell everyone this and I understand that you may not agree. Having kids is the greatest thing you will ever do. When you're 60 sitting at home you're going to wish you would have had them.

Non-kid suggestions would be start a project, that you can feel ownership over. You own it and make something of it. You are responsible for its success or failure. Again, I'm no expert.

[sarks_nz]

"Having kids is the greatest thing you will ever do" is a binary "True" in a probabilistic world, so almost guaranteed to be wrong for a large number of cases.

Having kids is not for everyone, and even for those people who have them, as probabilities dictate, might be the worst thing you will ever do and everything in between.

[fullstick]

My dad is over 60 and he is rarely home because he travels a lot for work. Just like he always has. I'm not going to ask him because I don't want to know the answer, but part of me is doubtful that he would claim me or my brothers as the greatest thing he's done in life.

[silverquiet]

I once dated a woman who was on her own journey to find meaning I think. I told her I had never really had an interest in children, but she seemed skeptical, and assumed I would eventually, but said that she never would. I would eventually learn that she was married with children.