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Most of the adult search for meaning cases i’ve met (including myself) comes down to disguising one of these underlying issues: 1. Depression and similar type
by aristofun 4y ago
Most of the adult search for meaning cases i’ve met (including myself) comes down to disguising one of these underlying issues:
1. Depression and similar type of disorders. You seek for some “purpose” as a magic pill that will suddenly make your troubles go away.
2. Fear of taking responsibility for your own life and decisions. Sort of a passive infantile position when you subconsciously hope that Santa Claus will finally give you some ultimate gift that will make all major decisions for you and will give you some magical motivation, guidance and answers to major questions out of nothing.
3. Form of addiction when all the usual stimulations like social media, porn, eating, smoking, alcohol etc. are not enough anymore to give you high, but your wise mind blocks you from switching to heavy drugs and masks this as a socially acceptable and even encouraged noble “search for meaning”.
All this doesn’t mean there is no purpose or it cant be found.
But my personal observations suggest, that once you’re out of the games you play with yourself and healthy enough physically — you don’t need a dedicated process for that, it comes more or less naturally.
And usually in a very unique way that can hardly be extrapolated to other people. Despite the opposite view of all those fancy bestsellers that not worth the paper they printed on.
This is the reason you haven’t found yet and ’ll never do any certain final answer, but just tons and tons of materials circling around and never hitting the target.
The best you can count on is to find someone who’s life, values, circumstances, personality are close enough to yours so you get some spark pushing you to your own answers.
- exoterictruth 4y ago