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What is the point of life?

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For much of my life I was always working towards something. As a kid it was doing well in school so I could go to uni. At uni it was doing well so I could get a good job. At work it was working hard to get promotions and pay rises and career progression.

But then at some point you have to ask yourself what the ultimate goal is, because no matter how hard we work, life is finite. It will end. Money, possessions and titles are no use when you’re dead.

Maybe we should stop telling kids to strive to progress and instead tell them to enjoy their moment.

What makes your life meaningful?

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  • During and even before Covid, before my diagnosis in 2021, I really and seriously asked myself this question, both as an older gay man and as a traditional Catholic, after I’d been made redundant from my last supermarket employer after 17 years in 2019 and after the heartbreaking events of Covid, especially during the heartbreaking events of Christmas 2020 when our world had changed in all of the worst ways forever, due to the influence of great evil in our world, which I eventually came to realise was very tangible and very real, I’m no closer to answering this question as fully and definitively as I perhaps should - some of the insights that I’ve gained is that our children young people are in a far weaker position and face a far bleaker future in the post Covid era of 2020 compared to when I was a child in the 1970’s and a teenager in the 1980’s - during Covid, I clung to my Catholic faith more tightly and deeply than ever, as I witnessed the advance of great evil in our world and as I witnessed the wilful disobedience, irresponsibility and ungovernability of mankind and the indifference of mankind to God’s Commandments, as mankind fell for the deceptions of evil - I’ve certainly found that my faith has kept me grounded and has carried me through many truly heartbreaking situations 

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  • During and even before Covid, before my diagnosis in 2021, I really and seriously asked myself this question, both as an older gay man and as a traditional Catholic, after I’d been made redundant from my last supermarket employer after 17 years in 2019 and after the heartbreaking events of Covid, especially during the heartbreaking events of Christmas 2020 when our world had changed in all of the worst ways forever, due to the influence of great evil in our world, which I eventually came to realise was very tangible and very real, I’m no closer to answering this question as fully and definitively as I perhaps should - some of the insights that I’ve gained is that our children young people are in a far weaker position and face a far bleaker future in the post Covid era of 2020 compared to when I was a child in the 1970’s and a teenager in the 1980’s - during Covid, I clung to my Catholic faith more tightly and deeply than ever, as I witnessed the advance of great evil in our world and as I witnessed the wilful disobedience, irresponsibility and ungovernability of mankind and the indifference of mankind to God’s Commandments, as mankind fell for the deceptions of evil - I’ve certainly found that my faith has kept me grounded and has carried me through many truly heartbreaking situations 

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