It’s better to assume there is no after life and make decisions on that. It’s also better to assume that suicide ends in hell, and make decisions based on that. My goal is to make the best choices in this life and I think the above helps.
Better to be pleasantly surprised than make irrational decisions
Not sure about this but it intrigues me too.
no one is certain what is beyond this life but I make all my decisions in a fear of a higher power. Whatever that may be, whether I may or may not be reborn, I wanna have good karma and a good place with people around me (loved ones) and if there is an afterlife like promised in religions, I have no fear of it for now at this age. I have a clear conscience, other than some stupid decisions 
I think I told you once @everhopeful all these experience, psychosis, the religious delusions can not just be a coincidence, and one of my unusual beliefs is that it is intertwined to some weird universal soul or karma, or some other bizarre realities.
I mean the way the human body, animals, the nature is, it is just impossible for me not to believe that it is only a coincidental creation. It is amazing? I mean the sky, the galaxies… It seems like too bizarre/beautiful/ not to have any meaning at all .
Everything is a coincidence: parents, siblings, friends, your talents, relationships, everything. We only have the illusion of control, including an illusion of consciousness. We extrapolate that because we think one way that there must be a reason. Not necessarily so.
are you trying to make me suicidal ? =(
@MissMermaid No not at all and I’m very sorry if you took my comments that way. I just think that there is a lot of “wonder” in the world and it’s a beautiful place. There are things we can control, and that’s where our focus should be. I wish you all the love I can
Thank you but those thoughts of coincidences and meaninglessness just makes me feel lost with no purpose.
I mean then there is no point in life at all. It is already something I struggle with, finding any purpose so this keeps me grounded the least.
You can find purpose in what you value, whether it’s improving your condition mentally, physically, financially, helping others, doing art or music. We give our own meaning to our lives. You just have to ask what is meaningful to you?
I value loved ones and the happy moments with them. That is about it. I love my job and I value it.
Not sure if there is anything else at all 
what about you?
I value my wife and trying to make her happy, my cat, my videogame for now, playing tennis, learning Portuguese, vacations, living comfortably, and this msg board.
Those are the main things that motivate me and give me purpose.
Have you experienced anhedonia?
Yes when I was suicidally depressed. Not fun
You?
Does it make you feel like you have something to look forward to?
No it did not 1515
I was asking @everhopeful was trying to figure out why ?? 
But I do feel it is somewhat part of depression…
yeah it is unfortunate =( I feel the same bc I went through major depression just a couple months ago and now doing somewhat better. I totally understand @everhopeful as I do not look forward to the future but still want to have fun in this life and make more memories. @anon80629714 @Moonwalker I have a horrible anhedonia and it started after the 3rd year of psychosis. It stuck with me. The funny thing is I am doing so SO much better than my friends my age. Maybe they are only blissfuly ignorant which is what we lack ? psychosis makes me analyze everything and think of consequences.
@everhopeful is there any way you can turn your life around. You are still young from what I remember, isn’t there anything you still dream of achieving in this life? Maybe you are depressed? =(
Energy beings…if we can keep our ‘essence of life’ in energy form that lasts forever in the cosmos.
Mismermaid, your wellbeing should not be decided on the transient opinions and attitudes of people. Purpose is something you have to make for yourself it is not the responsibilty of anyone else at this stage. Life is bad for some, good for others, sh!t happens.
The afterlife is simply another life. You keep coming back and if you do a good job you move higher up the food chain. God designed the Universe but he didn’t want to deal with all the problems of it so he delegated out to beings to decide where souls go for their next life. I call them Oversouls.
I stopped believing in God for a year, but kept praying the Lord’s prayer almost every night while I was an atheist as a sort of back up in case I was wrong, not realizing that it doesn’t really work like that. I then had a dream when I was approximately 16 years old in which I’m pretty sure that God talked to me. It brought me back to Christianity.
I used to believe in nothing but I’ve been really thinking I believe in reincarnation recently. Though the thought that you keep your memories is pretty far fetched. But whatever “life” and the “soul” is, can’t just disappear. Something along the lines of the law of conservation of mass and energy must apply here.