A big part of me is missing....i feel i cant move forward without it?

Question

All the time i am thinking
what is the purpose?
why i am i here?
is there a god?
these question just wont leave me alone
can anyone help me with some advice? tips? a book or a magainze or websites that help?

Answer 1

It's not uncommon to feel like that, it can be a sign of depression or just a sign that you are one of those people who thinks more deeply into life and needs to feel that you have a purpose or a meaning. And just as often it's the feeling that you lack meaning that is the root of depression, but what's wrong with wanting a meaning and a purpose - a way of finding benefits in the good stuff and understanding the bad stuff rather than just passing each day and not knowing why you bother with any of it.

There isn't any one answer, or any book or magazine that can tell you these things, and life is a long search for your own meaning, which nobody can give you. Explore some belief systems, and some different ways of thinking. Try reading into some religions, maybe into Buddhism, Taoism and spiritualism as well as the major ones. Perhaps try and read some things about ecology, evolution, history, world cultures, pyschology or philosophy, too, and get some perspectives on what this world, and people are like and where we might have come from. And try and understand yourself, perhaps through meditation or yoga, through therapy or through art if that's your thing - and get a sense of who you are and what you stand for, what makes you 'you' and what you mean to other people and the world around you. Let yourself be pulled a little towards things that catch your eye and imagination and grab the opportunity for as many experiences as you can in your life, and see what things you feel and know afterwards that you didn't before.

The search for meaning is a really lifelong job - you find answers in the short term, answers in the longer term, and get rid of many answers that you thought you had as new things and experiences happen to you and your perspective shifts. Probably we will never have an answer (unless you're big on the idea of getting religious...) but we all find a way of dealing with the world and our existence that means something to us and gets us through most of our days and questions. And once you relax, and enjoy the search, and know when to appreciate the little things you can't yet explain anyway, there really is nothing more exciting, challenging and fulfilling than the search for meaning and truth. Good luck!

(You should be able to find books and websites on anything that's interesting you by searching or in your local library - just go read, something, or anything!)

Answer 2

these questions came from what is always refered too as the inner-voice, so i must assume your always alone to hear it so clearly and constantly.
spending time alone made your mind clear and got you thinking about the "more intersting" questions.
the first question should be is there a God well ill tell you this:
when you look at any thing or any one you will notice this , every thing that happens needs some one to make it happen, i mean if you look at a wooden table you would know that some one chopped a tree then made this table so every act must have some one to act on it and that some one is stronger and if you look at earth its a rock in space that was a piece of a larger rock so it came some where, and any thing you see around you has this act-effect thing to it.
the act-effect can not be a circle becouse then the weakest link would not be able to move the strongest next to it at the end of the circle so things would have gone stall, so it must be like a chain where things go up from the weak to the strong this chian must end to some one or some thing that so strong it will not need to effect of any one or any thing that whom you may refer too as God him self.
and thats my way of explianing the theory of arostotile in witch he concluded that there is a creator a god.
the only religion that i found this perfect vision of a God is the religion of my choice islam.
purpose of life is to be tested before rewarding you.
religion is directly relyted to psychology the eases when it knows what its doing and whats its done for.
i once heard a man say " its like we are designed to findout that there is a God"
one more thing id like to add:
these questions may have not come from depression but depression may have came when they were not answered.
hope my answer helped.

Answer 3

You say a big part of you is missing but you don't know what that is therefore, how do you know it's missing? Is it the validation of being in a relationship you want? You say you don't know the purpose of life, not many folk do and I would say that there is no one purpose to life. You need to give your own life some purpose. Have you ever heard of existentialism? Look it up and have a read, you might take some motivation from it.

Answer 4

These are things that we all must come to grips with - more than once in our lifetimes. Don't let yourself get too bogged down in them. Your answers to them today will not be the same in a year, or ten years. Just relax.

Answer 5

Everyone feels like that from time to time. If it's something that is constantly on your mind though it could be that you are depressed. Is there ways in which you could get out more and find something to do?

Answer 6

I was the same. I kept walking round in circles. Then I realised a big part of me was missing. It was my left leg. Got an artificial one and hey! I can move forwards!

Answer 7

you probably need to discover yourself. The Holy Bible is a good companion in this circumstance.

Answer 8

God, I'm depressed now.