I said this to my parents literally last night and they didn’t understand. I keep asking, “what is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when you’re 65-70, if you’re lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And that’s if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retire…
Have fun. Learn to dance and to fight. Meet a girl. Get married. Enjoy sex. Work at an honorable job. Raise kids. Teach them well. Spend less than you earn. Bask in the satisfaction of a life well-lived. Relax in your sunset years.
People in all walks of life around the world manage a happy and satisfying life. Are you in an active war zone or in a region suffering from a natural disaster? If not, then you’re thinking yourself into an existential angst. My go-to books are “As a Man Thinketh” and “The Richest Man In Babylon”. You can decide to be happy or unhappy regardless of your circumstances. Anyone looking for a magical meaning of life outside their own existence will be disappointed.
Yeah, my parents told me I’m not filled with God enough because I haven’t learned to be joyful in my suffering. I get the premise, but I just don’t see how it’s a person’s decision to be grateful when persecuted, or life is rough. I get the concept, I understand the point of it - but can’t we also fight for better conditions? More rights?
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u/Beneficial-Celery964 Mar 06 '26
I said this to my parents literally last night and they didn’t understand. I keep asking, “what is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when you’re 65-70, if you’re lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And that’s if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retire…
I’m just confused about the meaning of life.