[swman]

What if I told you there is no purpose?

Maybe this is crazy but what helped me is to just accept everything is not real except what I perceive right now. Don’t take this the wrong way but you for example are just a construct that happened to ask this question and I pondered upon it. Similarly I might be the same for you.

I find that liberating because then it means whether or not it’s real it just is my present situation. I just need to get through this “existence” because who knows what comes next or before. It’s all unknown and that’s kind of cool.

Like the best video game ever with endless mini games built in. And this might be a mini game too.

[jimt1234]

I embraced this mindset a number of years ago, and I've also found it to be liberating. I always felt like I spent so much energy trying to find "meaning" or "purpose" or whatever, but eventually came to the conclusion that releasing myself from those concepts, recognizing that "meaning" and "purpose" are human inventions - well, I've had a sense of inner-peace ever since then. I sleep like a baby now, and I'm generally happier in life. I just feel like someday we're all gonna be forced to get off the rollercoaster, so until then, enjoy the ride. The universe doesn't care if your life has meaning or whatever. The universe just keeps on universe-ing.

[nativespecies]

I guess I should have been more explicit. I am not looking for the purpose OF LIFE. I am looking for the purpose of MY LIFE. If that makes sense...