I may have asked something like this before, but I am looking for more input.....?

Question

What do you do when you get to the point where you really feel that you have no purpose in life anymore?

Answer 1

Ask yourself: What am I looking for? What do I want to do? What will make me happy? What has made me happy in the past? What do I enjoy? I don't believe we are here for any particular purpose, other then to live and help others and to enjoy life, fill your lungs with fresh clean air and get out into the sunlight, and see, I mean really see, the (good) things life has to offer you! Look at a tree, see what it has to offer the world, watch ripples move on a pond, see the love ducks have for each other as they group together in the water, look at the sky, see the beautiful colors of the sunset, fall face down in the grass and see, smell and feel the grass, look at an ant colony, feel the different texture of colored leaves, taste a raindrop! This is what life has to offer, pretend you only have 3 days left to live and try to savor all there is to savor, this is your world dammit, and you don't want to leave it!!!!!!

Answer 2

You choose again, you choose a context bigger than you to live into, so you live a contextually filled life rather than a content filled life. Something that will go on to survive you after you die. Who was it who said "if i had 80 lifetimes i could never learn all there was to learn" or " I thought i was poor when i had no shoes, until i saw a man with no feet" life doesnt look a particular way because we are "experiential" beings,we think if it looks that way, our way, a particular way it will work out and it doesnt, why? because at school they teach us when we "HAVE" it then we can "BE" it then we can "DO" it, this is a fundemental lie from cultural myth! and also the reason 85% of the population dies financially and spiritually broke. So this is how it works I'ts BE-DO - HAVE not HAVE - BE - DO >>> BE thirsty DO what 's appropriate (get a drink) then you can HAVE. it because you cant "have" it before you "be" it or "do" it. so give up the attachment to having a purpose,you choose your purpose, and it will come from all the object lessons you've had in life up till now, so now look for where you can apply all those qualities that you do want that are important to you and learn to specialise. so who are you BEING?and who do you want to BE in the future? the having comes anyway as a validation of your contribution and doersnt look a particular way, unless of course your motivated from that fear of survival attachment to form i.e MONEY rather than being contextual. So your context creates the experience that motivates you, the experience creates the FORM (which doesn't look a particular way) and the form is a validation of your contribution, be it money, satisfaction,contentment and the last two and to evolve and pass our knowledge and wisdom onto others to serve them to grow is the most we can ever really achieve anyway and all the rest is BS.

Answer 3

I would take a drive through the inner city and look at all the homeless and down and out. Then come home and look at all the cool stuff that I have and thank the good lord that I have what I have. If you live too far from the inner city then take a trip to your local hospital and walk some of the wards where people are dying or have lost body parts and then go home and look at yourself in the mirror and then thank god that you are healthy. I have more examples but you get the idea.

Answer 4

Maybe your purpose is introspection for now. Many people live life never knowing themselves. Maybe that's what's bugging you, you don't know you.

What 'purpose' did you have before?

Something has changed within you. Are you sure something has not gone your way and you are feeling sorry for yourself? Think on it. Unless you like feeling this way.

How about this. What would you say to your best friend/mother, etc, if they came to you with this question?

Answer 5

Everyone has a purpose in life. You might just think that you don't but you do. There are a lot of people who care about you and would be hurt if you weren't around. Don't give up hope it get's better.

Answer 6

basically you have 2 options... talk to someone and try and get through the low point or end your life... I wouldn't recommend the latter because i am sure there are people that would miss you... find those people and talk to them... you will feel better.

Also try something like volunteer at a hospital or something where there are people less fortunate than you... it helps to know you are not so bad.

Answer 7

Most of the time, when someone concludes that there is no purpose in life anymore, the conclusion is based on circular reasoning (a big trap for anyone!). It's a matter of basing one's "usefulness" upon one's perceptions of what other people think. It goes something like this:

"Fred and Sandra, whom I admire as people, do not seem to find me interesting or worthwhile. Because Fred and Sandra are people I trust and admire, I believe their assessment--I am neither interesting nor worthwhile."

The fallacy, of course, is that I am not inside Fred's and Sandra's heads. I cannot know what they really believe. Further--if I am basing my sense of self-worth on someone else's opinion, I am not allowing myself to have a "self" at all.

The only way to break out of a sense of purposelessness is, ironically, to focus your attention entirely outside yourself. This means that, no matter how much I respect or admire another person, I cannot allow myself to assume anything about their assessment of me. All I can do is to interact with other people, conversing with them and taking their comments at face-value. If I find myself surrounded by people who are not interested in spending time with me, it is time to find some new people with whom to surround myself.

Try some new activities, new places to go, new things to do. That's a pretty tall order, because we all have to deal with some basic fears when we enter unfamiliar territory. When we venture out, though, we can realize just how much we have been limiting our own lives!

I once felt adrift and purposeless while I was a student in a major city. I began looking for new places to go and new things to do, and I happened upon a community "safe home" program which was looking for volunteers. We met children after school and walked them through a tough neighborhood to a community activity center. There, the kids could interact and recreate, do their homework, etc. in a safe place, until their parents came to pick them up. It was actually quite dangerous--we were often directing children away from violent gang members and drug dealers, many of whom would go out of their way to try to make us feel threatened. I was never more alive in my life! It was a little scary, but very rewarding. After a few weeks, I felt I had a purpose. Later on, I was much more adventurous about doing new things and meeting new people.

I know it sounds like a lot, but the longest journey does begin with a single step. Find something new to do: there is more than one purpose for your life out there, and it probably won't perch on your doorstep and wait for you to grab it. Don't despair! You wouldn't be asking this question in the first place, did you not feel that "purposelessness" isn't a natural state of being.

Answer 8

First, realize that you ain't alone: lots of people have this kind of thought.

For myself, it helps me to think of my son.
Sometimes, it helps to just make myself get the heck outside, just throw on whatever and go out the door - even a few steps can change my mood.
For the longer term, there are a couple of things that help me, maybe they will help you:
1. take a course, OR
2. volunteer to help people (through a church or charity like Goodwill or Salvation Army)

The worst thing is to be alone with your painfull thoughts.
So do some thing, any thing - go to the store for milk, even.
HTH

Answer 9

Your God has put you here for a reason. We all have missions in life to fill. Pray and ask Your God to show you your purpose. He's (whoever He is) is the only one who can answer your question. Maybe He is trying to show you and that's why it's on your mind?

Answer 10

You go out and find a purpose for your life. Volunteer, Go back to school, go out and make new friends.