Some days small things like visiting a friend or a change in weather, can be reason enough to keep me going, other days the sole reason of my existence is to stay alive. (It’s a kind of habit, i have done it in 52 years so it’s easier just to continue).
I Googled “Life+ habit” and there are thousands of lists how to enrich your life (eat healthy, exercise, etc)
Here is my own Master Yoda list, sadly I only have five lines:
Don’t search for the meaning of life, like I have just done (there is probably none)
Don’t be ashamed to waste your life
Accept the sadness
Stay in the hamster wheel
Ignore people who make lists about how to live your life.
I guess I live to survive. I am not depressed. I have a friend who calls me everyday after his work, we play video games together online. But I nearly never go out of my house. A few times a year.
I wonder what that purpose of life would even look like should it exist. What’s interesting, of course, is that by “purpose in life” we almost invariably mean the purpose of human life. This is already something of a giveaway.
Not yet, I am waiting on Vraylar to be available here. It should be similar to Abilify without its side effects hopefully. It has no warnings by Health Canada and the FDA unlike Abilify and Rexulti.
Whilst pondering how to make my life more fulfilling I have to underline that I am always grateful not to be in work 9 to 5. I was a Secretary for fifteen years and it was so boring and getting up early was a nightmare. I am now a Mum but my daughter is in nursery by day and so I am left to my own self during the week. I think keep focused and try and enjoy the small things in life!
People might argue that being able to successfully set goals is to have found them. And I suspect the success of that goal-setting will depend on the nature and strength of our ontological commitments, an individual purpose that partakes of a more transcendental purpose outside us, or, at least the very least, not identical to us. There is something perplexing about the idea of our life having purpose if we happen to believe nothing else does. Of course, you could always go all heroic and nietzschean about it but such an argument is designed to arouse rather than to persuade.
What’s your personal take on the problem of purpose?
It’s true that some would say to have found purpose, whereas goals are set. If I understand you correctly we disagree about which is more fundamental, which is a subset of which: the goals that are set by us, or the purpose we are inclined to think we have found outside of us, if this is what your take on the notion of transcendentality is. But purpose is only found as long as we have made it our own. There is no such thing as having found your purpose while disagreeing with it, I would think. Whereas there very much is such a thing like setting a goal without having found it. That shows me which is more fundamental.
The point I tried to stress was the interdependence of the two. I’d imagine that goals are not set for their own sake (except perhaps as a desperado heroic move, or as a stoic-style consolatio) but that they are dependant on certain assumptions about our moral universe and our place in it. At the very least, it strikes me as psychologically implausible that we’d be able to successfully set goals withour appealing to some form of transcendant sanction (however weak and postmetaphysical).
I agree, but there are some interesting possibilities worth considering.If your name happens to be Edipus, and you believe in fate and are indeed told what your fate entails, and naturally you come to reject it, (this was before incest porn obviously), could you embrace your fate -and in a sense, truly fulfil it- precisely by fighting against it? Obviously there are much mundane everyday examples of this predicament. I think we’d need to spend time defining and refining terms to even know whether we disagree or not. I say let’s agree to agree!
For me it’s as simple as trying to do and think positive things and avoid the negative. I’m not always sucsessful, but I’m working on bettering myself.