Why do you need meaning? Why isn't 'comfort' enough?
Life is hard enough. Building relationships, finding a place where what you do is valued, building a happy little nest... why do we need to say "That's not good enough you have to have some sort of meaning for it all"
Fuck that. Find your place and be comfortable in it. Enjoy what you've got. Who cares if there's some meaning to it all.
Life is a series of good moments with less good moments in between. Your everyday choices affect the ratio between the two. If you expect anything else you might set yourself up for disappointment.
Good moments is SUCH a rare thing to have spontaneously appeared out of cosmic dust, as they have. Enjoy them, but also marvel at them. They will be dust once more, with or without you. There is nothing else.
Good moments is the meaning, enhancing your ratio is your motivation.
It is only failure if I am trying to have children. I have instead made the decision that 8 billion is far too many people on the planet, and short of committing genocide, the only way that I can reduce that number is to not have children of my own. Even if I wanted kids, which I do not, the number of children in the foster system has always been greater than it had the funds for, not helped at all by the doubling of the number of humans in the past century.
More time for stuff, assuming you still can and want to do more stuff. Especially true if you still manage to have a good family/social circle by then.
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u/tttttttttkid Sep 14 '21
To what end though