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Finding Purpose in life

HonestAspy

Hi Everyone

Jumping in on the deep-end with this topic but does anyone else struggle with purpose? I often feel I am lacking purpose in life and this feels me with a great deal of anxiety and depression, but I don't know whether this is caused but unreasonable expectations of what I should be achieving. I have a good job (Admittedly I find it dull) but otherwise I don't feel like I've achieved much in life and I think my overthinking of things only exacerbates this feeling. I just wondered whether I was alone in experiencing this or not, and if anyone else has felt this do you have any advice on how to overcome or combat it?

Many thanks in advance Slight smile

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  • I used to think there was a plan, a thing, a purpose I had to fulfill (thanks to a unhealthy dose of religious evangelical brainwashing in early adulthood, a lot which was self-inflicted). Now I understand that it's living according to values. Figure out what they are, what's important and then live them in whatever and whichever way you can every day. 

     

    Everything else is just window dressing.

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  • I used to think there was a plan, a thing, a purpose I had to fulfill (thanks to a unhealthy dose of religious evangelical brainwashing in early adulthood, a lot which was self-inflicted). Now I understand that it's living according to values. Figure out what they are, what's important and then live them in whatever and whichever way you can every day. 

     

    Everything else is just window dressing.

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