What to do when life is devoid of meaning and purpose?

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I feel like my entire existence is devoid of worth.

I wake up, I go to the job, I do data entry for several hours, I go home, I eat junk food and play my Xbox, then I go to bed. That is exactly how most of my days go.

I am not useful to anybody else, it seems. I feel that nobody needs me to stick around, like I am non-essential, like I am perpetually useless.

Today, I called in sick. I am in bed, sobbing nonstop. I just want to stop feeling the all-consuming emptiness. It is devouring me alive.

Accept your loneliness; accept the void.

You might be fighting for something you'll never have, so stop fighting. It's the continual fighting against self that creates most problems.

If you accept the void then one day the void might accept you, and you can find a semblance of peace.

HUG

Hope you're feeling better now, KagamineLen,

Can you volunteer for something?
How about getting involved in art, or music, or
walking along a nature trail, something you're passionate about?
It really can help.

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I don't know. It does not help to know that I am essentially a survived miscarriage, and that my mother is clearly disappointed that I turned out to have a form of autism on top of that. I work, I work, I work, and I will never be able to amount to anything more than that. I should have never been born alive to begin with.

What about what I would call "emotional stimulation"; "intellectual stimulation" is greatly suggested to the intellectually gifted, but "emotional stimulation" is as important and greatly forgotten. I know you consume a lot of cultural products; are they emotional works? Personally I found that "emotional works" is of a great help against depression.

Listen to some good emotionally charged music, that's essentially the only real reason I'm able to carry on these days.

Thanks to all of you for kindly putting up with my self-pity party yesterday.

I do have to accept that the spiritual void will always be there, because it exists within all humans. It is everybody's primary motivational force. It has driven me to insanity because I had no way of knowing where to direct that energy. Instead of using it to build myself up, I tried throwing liquor and sex at it, and we all know where that got me.

doofy, you are absolutely correct. I could fight it, or I could run with it.

The feeling of emptiness can only be satiated when you rise up to a higher calling.

Chase your dreams and passion.

Become a part of something bigger than yourself.

And if you don't know what that is, make it your personal quest to discover what that is.

Wake up every day longing to find it.

What I can do is challenge you to "wake up" and become more conscious.

As you awaken, this problem should inherently dissolve away.

So you stop being so "self focused" and cultivate a wider "circle of concerns"

Life has only the meaning and purpose you give it, and the universe is so much greater than you.

We forget we are simply ego-encapsulated bodies. We feel like "one that is different from the rest" , but to go beyond that, is to see that we are "one with everything that is".

This is at least what I've absorbed from a couple of phenomemal class of minds (Owen Cook and Ken Wilber)

@sly279

I guess we can see ourselves as "not born to live"

But here is what I see. I see that the universe is a cosmic landscape of space that 99.999999% will kill organic life.

And what has happened here , on Earth, in life - is that organisms have come out of nowhere to defy being non-existent.

We have evolved from microbacteria (or w/e) , passed down through countless generations through our DNA codes, and YOUR existence, is a sign that somehow, YOU WERE MEANT TO LIVE AND BE HERE.

The odds of you existing here are INCREDIBLY small, but somehow, its almost as if fate has brought you here.

Just how I see it.

@Kagamine

LOL I sound like a therapist. I'll take that as a compliment since I wish I was.

Its a struggle everyday for everybody. Just remember, there is always a bigger picture.

Meaning and purpose will come when you find your place in it.

Wish you the best, with lots of love <3

Life is only devoid of meaning of purpose if you make it that way..

I'm in the same predicament as you. I wake up, I drink caffeine, I go to work, I go home, I get intoxicated, I play video games. It's more about finding things to make life worth living, something you love doing and look forward to. It doesn't even have to be another human being, f**k, it can just be a pet or something, or a hobby you thoroughly enjoy. X-box isn't going to fill that void.