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Good approach, but it's time-bound. How do you find meaning after your kids leave the nest?
by whyage 3y ago
Good approach, but it's time-bound. How do you find meaning after your kids leave the nest?
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- irrational 3y agoI don't have any experience in this area, but maybe grandchildren?
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- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoAs long as you find meaning from conditional existence, it will disappear. That’s why religions appeared, to have timeless meaning, and values. But we threw them out as superstitious, not understanding their purpose
- ssnri 3y agoPerfect solution: have 10 kids and go to church every day. Or get a hobby. Up to you
- anonzzzies 3y agoBut they way you say it sounds like they were invented with a purpose, which means you can replace them with another purpose; apparently short term thinking is worth writing articles about. So kids is one for a bit of your life; you can, like some guys (unfair but guys can) I know, just go to a new 20something girl every 15 years to make a new nest. Or you can find a purpose for your life, be it writing software, books, music, studying math, physics etc which your life ends up too short for and which will engulf you for however long it maybe with always having too little time while needing almost no money or other external stimuli. Wouldn’t that be better. Indeed it is.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoI said appeared not invented. If you want to put a carrot in front of yourself that can work a bit, but those pursuits are wonderful but not without it's troubles. Kids get sick, friends & family die, we get sick, we fail and much more. And in the end, we know when we are tricking ourselves. You can experience meaning quite easily & daily without depending on tricks like that; but yeah the way of chasing external stimuli till our death is indeed the Western rational way.
- vundercind 3y agoFill the 5x increase in your free time with all the books, movies, and video games you missed in the prior 20ish years?