Some philosophy

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If you haven’t yet found a sense of meaning at all, how do you go about searching for it without searching too much? The answer is to take a sprawling philosophical question and make it manageable. You can do so most effectively—and without too much obsessing—by assessing your life along three dimensions, which the psychologists Frank Martela and Michael F. Steger defined in The Journal of Positive Psychology in 2016:

  • Coherence: how events fit together. This is an understanding that things happen in your life for a reason. That doesn’t necessarily mean you can fit new developments into your narrative the moment they happen, but you usually are able to do so afterward, so you have faith that you eventually will.
  • Purpose: the existence of goals and aims. This is the belief that you are alive in order to do something. Think of purpose as your personal mission statement, such as “the purpose of my life is to share the secrets to happiness” or “I am here to spread love abundantly.”
  • Significance: life’s inherent value. This is the sense that your life matters. If you have high levels of significance, you’re confident that the world would be a tiny bit—or perhaps a lot—poorer if you didn’t exist.

(Text from an article)

I think the last one is good.
The other are a bit vague.

What do you think?

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My meaning today is to clean 7 more restrooms by 4:00 pm. I’m right on schedule to finish.

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How many rooms you clean a day?

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That’s some good food for thought. To give life context and meaning

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I think significance is the most important at this point. Just knowing i can make my parents day a little better keeps me going.

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Usually 8 a day but today it was 16.

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I am basically happy all the time till i meet the certain someone thinking i am suspicious. I find meaning in being a loner as much as i can. I don’t like drawing too much attention to myself as i learned it leads me into trouble. I have enough troubles dealing with sz. I think happiness is to discover what you like, don’t like, your needs and wants. It different to every individual with their skills and abilities.

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I have no idea what my purpose in life is, i just want a job where i can provide for myself and not get ill.

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I found long term goals to be good. They show you are serious. My dreams are not world wide fame, just to entertain a small party or maybe just one person. I’ve been practicing guitar now nearly every day for three years and have not had the opportunity to play for or with another. I spent over a decade with not enough to do and the time was wasted. The past three years seem to me a very long time. Time well spent. I am 52, that means I don’t really have a whole helluva lot of time left.

I have no idea what it’s like to play with another person.

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