The article doesn't really go anywhere. The author dances with some problematic notions, beats around the bush and leaves the reader with a piece of unconvincin

The article doesn't really go anywhere. The author dances with some problematic notions, beats around the bush and leaves the reader with a piece of unconvincing, milquetoast advice. Ultimately, it cannot be emphasized enough how great an error modern philosophy's unjustified rejection of telos is. At the very least, it is problematic because it is incoherent and nihilistic. It is incoherent because we deny its reality, but grant it to the mind which is itself no less real. Worse still, efficient causality itself becomes incomprehensible in the absence of telos. (For Aristotle, telos, or finality, is not merely something that concerns conscious, intentional and willed acts -- that is but one kind -- but what end(s) something is ordered toward, hence the inexplicability of the regularity of the effects of efficient causes in its absence.) It is nihilistic because by denying telos at the metaphysical level, we deny in the deepest sense the very possibility of ends in any sense. From that follows the impossibility of a true morality because telos is the ground for any moral judgement. Reality, of course, supplies us with numerous counterexamples. In my experience, the stubborn denial of telos is rooted in misunderstanding or a learned prejudice bequeathed to us by the modernist tradition. (Curiously, this denial ultimately lies at the heart of various fundamentalisms. Without telos, you must appeal to something like divine commands or the caprice of a dictator or whatever because there simply is never a fact of the matter where ends are concerned.) So, sure, it's possible you've been chasing things for the wrong reasons, or chasing the wrong things, blindly, etc. Perhaps many people only begin to reflect a little on their lives, however imperfectly, during middle age. Ultimately, purpose and fulfillment only make sense in light of human nature, which is also to say its inherent end or ends. If we ignore human nature, dismiss it, perhaps as an infinitely malleable cultural fiction, then we should not be surprised at the results.