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Do you feel like you have a sense of purpose?

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ashaman

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Do you feel like you have something to live for, something to get excited about? Please don't transfer this to the dark side, im not depressed! But it just seems like i havn't found something i absolutely love doing...

Basically, i was reading the art thread, and i was thinking... im not creative at all. I can't draw to save my life, i can play the guitar, but its usually duplicates of a song.... i try and make my song up, but its usually based on some other artist's mindset... like i dont have my own mindset, and i find that, worrying to say the least.
 
Im such a geek...i get excited about physics, im not as good at it as i probably should be by now, but, its my sense of purpose:)

Music also has a strong effect on me, you dont need to be creative to be inspired by music. Shit, i cant draw or write music, but im creative in the sense that music can inspire me to dance or motivate me when im doing homework, on a bus it can make me smile through my headphones.

"You gotta understand something, here. This music is the glue of the world, Mark. It holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless."
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Are you in a position to try out many different things in life? This is one of the reasons that I love higher education as simply a way to discover what you'd like to do more, as far as you get to explore different areas vs. a job training situation. However, you definitely don't have to learn this through school. There are clubs, meetings, libraries full of books, tv shows and websites out there to expose you to a variety of things. Perhaps the more you put yourself out there to see these things, the more likely you'd be to find something that just clicks with you.

Personally, I love teaching others, and attempting to understand aspects of human behavior, and so it's what I'm planning on doing, even though the pay is a little less than is to be desired. Being content in your chosen passion goes a looooong way in life :D
 
my purpose is to do whatever i want.......

the fact that i have been given life means that I have endless opportunities infront of me...which for many is quite daunting... but i take it as a gift.............

whatever i do i will be happy... so long as it is what i want to do and conciously choose to do...
 
I used to be in the same boat. Basically I just got fed up of always thinking that way and I gained a careless attitude on what people thought of me. I didn't care wether I was following or leading just as long as it put a smile on my face.

I suck at bowling but I joined the bowling team back in highschool because I wanted to wear the shoes with the neon laces. I can't read musical notes but I bought myself a keyboard to make my own little melodies.

We forget that we should live for our own amusment and not that of others. Of course don't be a total dick and allow your careless attitude affect others in a negative way. Wake up one morning (whenever you don't have school or work) and say: "today I'm going to do what ever the fuck I want" and do it...keep doing that for a while and you'll build your confidence and realize what your true talents are. Your way of thinking is actually blinding you from seeing your capabilities. Good luck and God bless!
 
Feeling you have a purpose is a complex thing, just coz you are good at something doesnt mean it is the purpose of your life, even though practically everyone tends to rub off purpose to their jobs, to add some higher meaning to it. Dunno how you go about finding the actual purpose of your life though.
 
I seriosly think I have a sense of purpose to produce music. I really like house music and I feel that I would be able to produce some good music. Hopefully everything goes well for me.
 
I have personally always had a very strong sense of purpose, even during depressions. It is perhaps the one thing that kept me going. I'm not entirely sure what my purpose is, but I know (or hope?) that it involves improving the world. I know, sappy.
 
I feel that the only purpose in life is that which people fabricate or construct themselves. Besides procreation I don't think that life has any purpose per se. :\
 
Nah, i love playing soccer, basketball, guitar, and i do join a lot of clubs and try to do as many things at once, but i need to get *addicted* to something...

I guess thats why i love playing video games, reading a book or being in love... i can just totally give in (play video games 8 hours a day, read a book 8 hours a day, make love 8 hours a day ;) )

My life sort of feels dull now that i've left my girlfriend, and there's nothing i can get 'addicted' to. Its saddening.
 
Absolutely none whatsoever, except to live... I've never had goals, I've never had direction and purose, I've never known what I want to do. I got a real indecisiveness problem 8o

That being said I don't feel like my life is worthless, quite the oposite, just the act of living seems purpose enough.
 
Some days I sense a purpose or meaning in my life. When I write, I feel a whole lot better, and I often get to that point where my fingers cannot keep up with my thoughts and I get something I can best describe as a psychological orgasm (that may sound ooky, but that's the best way I can explain it). I used to feel even more passionate about my artwork, but I've been pretty dry in that area for the last few years or so. There are some deeper things that give my life a sense of purpose and meaning, too, but the fact is that some days it just doesn't feel as if anything's enough. It doesn't feel as if anything I do can make me feel as if there really is a point or reason, drive or purpose or meaning to anything. And I'm not trying to be pessimistic or nihilistic; only honest. I'm also plagued with this weird feeling, constantly feeling like I should be doing something I'm not doing without knowing what that thing I should be doing is, in even the vaguest sense. Sounds dumb, but still, I'm being honest...

One day, I'd like to feel that living is it's own reward. I know that state of mind is possible.
 
I'm also plagued with this weird feeling, constantly feeling like I should be doing something I'm not doing without knowing what that thing I should be doing is, in even the vaguest sense. Sounds dumb, but still, I'm being honest...
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I know what you mean... In my case I'm pretty sure it's receiving 18th dimensional language lessons from towering pillars of light, at least that's what the mushrooms seem to insinuate and they're forever trying to make me focus whatever that gnawing thing in my mind is, so i'm prone to listening to them. It sounds flipped out but buddhism also teaches that that feeling is very important and the thing you are supposed to be doing is simply to pay attention, stop being distracted, focus and be aware.
 
Neural_Shock said:
Yes. My purpose is to find out if I have a purpose. I'm absolutely serious, BTW.
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Interesting statement that might be unnecessarily confusing. Since you have stated your purpose, doesn't this answer the question of whether or not you have a purpose? And if you are using the two words in different contexts, why make it complicated?
 
jihan said:
Interesting statement that might be unnecessarily confusing. Since you have stated your purpose, doesn't this answer the question of whether or not you have a purpose? And if you are using the two words in different contexts, why make it complicated?
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It's my purpose and it make sense to me. I wouldn't even try to spell it out.:p
 
I feel my purpose in life is to make everyone happy...Something to laugh at...Like me.....It's depressing at times...Maybe it's not even right....But it makes me happy knowing that I've made others happy...And when I find that girl....
 
im gonna be greater than great.im going to be so great u cant even call me great all u can do is put my face on the bible and and ban all others.i will be so great than u cant even get out of bed without saying a prayer to the greatest,the most all powerfull being in the universe.thatl be me.:D

actually i dont really kno since by the time i grow up and im about 30 the world will onLY have about another 50 years untill its completely over populated and there will be way to many people and way to little food.

maybe il come up with a way to start living under the oceans since there only 75% of our land mass and then figure out how to have some clean oxygen and grow vegetation with artificial sunlight.and il also have to keep all the stupid fucks out that fucked this fucked world up in the first fucking place.GOD I HATE POLITITIANS
 
Well my passion is Psychology and Neurology........I obsessively anaylyze myself and others......I am also very perceptive of emotions. I believe sometimes i can really feel someone's emotions. Its like someone will be telling me a story or describing a feeling and although i have never exerienced it, ill feel like i was there.

I have felt psychology is my purpose since my early teens. Although i have changed and grown a lot as a person my passion has always stayed the same....... but I love science in general.

I guess im kinda lucky to know what i wanna do but i also have many intrest that make me second guess myself......There's actually quite a bit i want to learn and experience. I often feel a lifetime is too short to delve into all my intrest.

My ultimate goal is to be the Michael Jordan of something.....I wanna be an innovator. I wanna contribute something to humanity as a whole. I wanna do something that will bring the world into a whole new light. ( pretty high goals huh?)

Im just in awe of human history's genuises......People like Einstein, Newton, Jung, Da Vinci, Hawkings, ect.

Anyways......I guess just start learning about diff things that sound intresting ......Eventually u will stumble upon something.......

But i also think that the feeling of purpose may very well just be an illusion or something to make me feel significant or important.

I dunno, my best advice would be to just go w/ the flow. Dont feel like u have to have a purpose in life. The best things that have happened in my life time have come totally unexpected. So u never know what thoughts may yield when the apple hits u on ur head.;)
 
Recently I've begun to feel that my purpose is to make people feel good about themselves and to one day have enough money to support not only myself but my family and close friends as well. Idealistic? Me??

Who knows if I'm clinging on to some fantasy to make me feel better about myself or if I really do have some sort of purpose. My experiences this far support my beliefs...
 
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