who here on WP has a sense of purpose in life?

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I have to wholeheartedly agree. As someone who experienced terror for a prolonged period of time and now live a peaceful life, i have to agree.

glad to hear another aspie has found peace

Best time of my life atm. <cross tentacles>

I feel pointless and useless, yet there is this one thing: sometimes I say something that I don't expect to say and it's brilliant and helps somebody in need. People who hear wait until I'm finished then come around with praise and even food treats in hospital. As I speak, I don't know what I'm about to say, so I'm listening to me just like the others. After years of this (every couple of months or so) I offered to the Holy Spirit to use me if that's what's happening. Since then I let it happen, not surprised but very grounded. I stay grounded for about an hour then I'm useless and pointless again.

I have no “purpose” in life.

I live day to day, try my best (to a certain extent) and follow what I believe are good moral precepts.

I live because I would rather not die. I don’t rely on other people.

I wish to live deliberately, to live deep and suck all the marrow out of life, to see if I can learn what it has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not lived.

Based on Henry David Thoreau

To help cats, and people, too

Do you scavenge carrion to feed them? A cat has about the same ecological footprint as a vegan human, and there is not enough to go around. I have seen the human population triple, and many species are being wiped out completely.

Sense of purpose.... I used to... In a way I do but I can't get there. I am drifting... Very patiently waiting...

I know it will happen... I know... Been waiting and waiting and waiting...

may i make a suggestion? i never thought i'd say this, but it is my considered opinion that you stop waiting and start DOING. "action is the antidote to despair." (joan baez)
mebbe take a sheet of paper, write down stuff at random, activities or subjects that you have even a remote interest in. make the writing large enough to cover enough paper real estate, so most of the paper is written on. then close your eyes and let your finger drop at random to a random point on the paper. open your eyes and note what word of hobby or activity or subject your finger landed on. investigate that. no law says you have to stick with it beyond a decent interval [a few hours?] if it turns you off - in that case, repeat closing your eyes and randomly fingering a word, try again, until you find some thing you find worth sticking with. just a thought.

What gives me a sense of purpose is finding ways to make the world a better place for myself and at least some other people. Sometimes this has meant political activism. Sometimes this has meant providing some service (e.g. creating a website or leading meetings of some in-person group) pertaining to whatever oddball subculture I happened to be involved in at the time.

Lately I've been reading up on both the autistic community and the larger autism community (autistics plus the mostly-NT parents/families/partners/etc. groups plus professionals) and thinking a lot about what sorts of things I could possibly do to help build the autistic community. More about this later, in some other thread.

^^^^my inept attempts at "building up the autistic community" was like trying to herd cats. i trust that you are more talented at this than i am.

Since further discussion about building up the autistic community would probably be off-topic for this thread, I've replied in a separate new thread Building the autistic community?

I have been able to herd cats quite effectively. One of my cats, Samantha, actually waited for me to come upstairs with her. She was a very rare and special cat.

I second that advice on getting a hobby. My workshop is between my kitchen/bath area, and my bed/study area, and for years, I only had a path through a store room. I had been planning to continue work on some big projects, but got too depressed. Finally, I cleared a little space for art metalwork, the craft I enjoy most. It took years, but I'm building things of possible significance again.

since my last puter died a few months back, i really need to get hopping on reinstalling my audio restoration software and configuring it to work properly again, so i can get back to fixing records.