what's there to live for?

Question

look , i'm a christian , okay ? let's get that out of the way . i believe in god. i believe in jesus . yada yada .

but i cannot think of any reason to make me want to stay alive .

no , i'm not incredibly suicidal or depressed .

i just think life is worn out .

i'm not scared to die because i know that when i get to , it's going to be better than down here .

right?

someone give me something so i don't feel like i'm betraying god or whatever by not seeing a point in this bland and repetetive life .

yes , and for all the wonderful people claiming my self - centeredness,

my father is in prison, my mother dumped me for her boyfriend, and my siblings are too busy screwing all mankind to worry .

i thought they were the ones being self centered. -excuse me-

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Answer 1

"what's there to live for?" - Your future, and what you want it to be. The challenges you set for yourself.
you've heard all the stuff before, but you know what university degrees actually do help. You meet people and talk. There are plans for the future. Daily and long term goals are made and reached.
I do not know a religious reason, I know you must have humans that respect you being there for them, and visa versa. So enlarge this group.
Have you gone to Burning Man, yet? Climbed any mountains, swam any bodies of water? Cut down an animal? Helped vets or medical people?
Do you know yourself yet, to have set goals?
Are you educated?
Shake up your comfort zone and add the excitement - don't repeat a day - make it different - it is your life after all.
Actually I am depressed technically as my son lives with his mother and has grown up without me, he's a stranger, so it hurts. Millions of people have stories, so either listen or talk to people, find what gifts you were given to you by GOD, and hone them and use them. As a Christian actions are important.
Can you make friends, move in friends - where you can almost make a family with people? then make a family for yourself. Move past, through the pain of your family, and into solo adulthood, but have support of trusted friends.

1. Friends - for support.
2. Education - for future
3. Goals - something to conquer, makes future possible.
4. Reestablish listening and talking to GOD, for spiritual support.
5. Pick career that makes you comfortable and challenges you.
6. Find someone to love - who loves you in return. Very important.
7. Someday in the future - take care of (have) children. They will recharge your soul.
8. Be a grandparent, spoil your grandkids, so your kids say “Mom, enough!”

Answer 2

Find something you care about - a cause or a charity - and start donating some time and energy to that. There are people and animals in this world who need your help. Start asking what you can do for others, and then you'll begin to find purpose.

Edit to add: Before you get angry at responses, read your post as if you were reading a stranger's post. You sound bored. You don't sound like you've had trauma and hardship. If you want accurate answers, you must give accurate details.

I'm sorry you're going through this.

Answer 3

They are the ones being self centered. You are right. My mother also chose her boyfriend/now husband over me and my younger brother. I had just turned 14. I still hurt about that, but it does not rule my life. I'm 26 now, with a son of my own. I am on my last semester of college, and will be graduating in December. I chose 12 years ago to prove her wrong for leaving me. I started to live life for myself. I guess I told myself that I wanted to make her sorry for leaving us. I wanted things out of life. Things that they couldn't provide for me, and I chose to go out and get it. I want to try and make the world a better place. My degree is in Mechanical Engineering. I hope to be able to help some how with that.

Life is what you make it. Choose to make it a good one. Set some life goals for yourself. You'll have to do some soul searching, and maybe research on line what you want to know more about in this world.

As for life feeling worn out....everyone gets that way. I felt that way in middle school and the last two years of high school. Those were times when I wasn't keeping myself busy. I was bored. I didn't recognize that when I was living through those times, but that is just the way it is. Hindsight is 20/20.

I know it's rough now, but it will get better. You can make it better. If you need to talk, I'll listen. Good luck!

Answer 4

I'm sorry dear. I can see that things are not going your way at all, I understand your feelings.

Please know that this life is very short compared to all of eternity. Life can be exceedingly heartbreaking, as you are finding out. That is why we have a blessed hope; in God's love for us, and that the present sufferings of this world are truly not worth being compared to the glory to come.

Please try reading your bible, especially psalms, there is so much comfort there. Learn of Jesus Christ, learn of the promises of God. Allow God to teach you how to take an eternal view of things. Go to Him with your cares and your frustrations and trust Him for the outcome. In the meantime, I pray that today He will be the lifter of your head and show you that He has good plans for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future.

Answer 5

To believe is not enough. Factually, no one has to do anything more than render devotional service to the Lord. However, in the lower stages of life one cannot immediately adopt the activities of devotional service, nor can one completely stop fruitive work. A conditioned soul is accustomed to working for sense gratification—for his own selfish interest, immediate or extended. An ordinary man works for his own sense enjoyment, and when this principle of sense enjoyment is extended to include his society, nation or humanity in general, it assumes various attractive names such as altruism, socialism, communism, nationalism and humanitarianism. These "isms" are certainly very attractive forms of karma-bandhana (karmic bondage), but the Vedic instruction of Sri Isopanisad is that if one actually wants to live for any of the above "isms," he should make them God-centered. There is no harm in becoming a family man, or an altruist, a socialist, a communist, a nationalist or a humanitarian, provided that one executes his activities in relation with God-centered conception.
Our eternal occupation is render service to God, eternally. We came to this material world forgetting that service, therefore we are bewilder.

Answer 6

Do you have family and friends and yes, pets?
I include pets in there as they are part of my family.

I am sorry for what you said about your family. My
Mom and Dad have passed and my brother lives
in another state. I am married and have a couple
friends here and pets. It may sound strange but
my pets make me happy and are good company.
I had some pretty low points in life and I almost did
turn away from God but I didn't. I kept trusting him
and things got better.

Answer 7

But everything about this life is absolutely amazing! I can't believe you don't find the simple act of being able to walk down the street on a beautiful day enough of a reason to live.

Perhaps you need to travel and see the physical wonders of life. Personally, listening to music and viewing paintings and sitting outside on a breezy summer day are all I need to make life meaningful.

Answer 8

Originally God created us with the intention of living everlastingly under His rulership. We know how that turned out to be. However, God has not changed His mind. We will, one day, inherit this Earth everlastingly, in peace, under His rulership. The world that He promises is like trying to describe colors to a blind man. The only thing I know, deep in my heart, is that the new world will be good, and in order for us to enjoy this new world, we must persevere this world.
If you have a few minutes to spare, watch these 2 videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRi4VwcrYmA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyheJ480LYA

Answer 9

What an incredibly self-centered attitude! Don't you have family who love and cherish you? Don't you have a job with co-workers who need you? Don't you have a Christian fellowship/church with people who care about you?

If you can say no to all that, then perhaps you haven't taken your head out of your own boredom and looked around at the loving souls around you.

WAKE UP!

Answer 10

Don't you want to travel? Eat new foods? Learn new things? Meet new people? Make love again to someone?
Sounds like you need to do something drastic to shake your life up...can you take a week off of work and just drive? See where it takes you and what you experience?