[rkuodys]

Building stuff to take care of others. While I agree with those stating that kids give you purpose, for me it gave a lot, ... but not purpose in life.

The more I reflect on what brings me fulfilment in life is: 1) projects that are physical in nature. Meaning something you can touch. Building a house, cleaning the environment, event building IKEA furniture. (Latter is not so much a purpose for life, but it's a piece of the Project House which is for my family) 2) Building business - it has multiple sides of it - you take care of your clients (B2B especially as you get familiar with clients and their problems) and you take care of your family (money / security wise) 3) Building community - to take care of environment for people living around you.

Ultimately - there is no purpose in life, we can only create it for ourselves. While some may think it's depressing, for me it's liberating - you don't need to search for something you haven't lost and instead build something of your own.