feeling pointless, confused, and frustrated

OK. Lately I've been feeling pretty... weird. It's hard to explain so bear with me. I feel, like, bored with life, and like everything I do is so pointless. I think these two feelings go hand-in-hand for me. Like, when I'm sitting around bored and I try to think of something to do, everything seems so stupid and pointless, like "why should I even do that? it seems like a total waste of time."

and then I start thinking about the world. like what is the world doing? what are we trying to achieve? it seems like we're merely existing for the sole purpose of existing, wallowing in the little world that we have made for ourselves, all for what?

some people have dreams of making it big, being famous. like that's the ultimate goal in those people's lives. so let's say someone is a great singer or something, they get famous and make billions of dollars. then what? have they acheived their goal? whoop-dee-doo, now they can sit and wallow in their money and then die. what was the point of all that?

and that's how I look at the world and all its efforts. "whoop-dee-doo." like, everything people do is so petty and there is something way greater that we should be working towards, but i have no idea what that is and it frustrates me.

wow, it seems the question i'm trying to answer is

what is the meaning of life?​

i used to lightly think about that question but just blow it off and continue with my pointless endevours. but now, for some reason, i'm questioning my whole life and the world around me. i'm afraid i'll drive myself insane by thinking about this too much and not knowing the answer. ​

I don't even know why I'm posting this. I don't know what I'm asking for. (damn, if I can't even figure out the meaning of this post, how do i ever plan on figuring out the meaning of life??) I guess I want to know if anyone else out there has felt this way/asked these questions, and what you have done to soothe the burning frustration and feeling of having no purpose.​

thanks for reading all that!
peace and love (i mean it)
-annie​

 

I can see where you are coming from. It's hard to come to grips with the question of existence, but you have to decide for yourself.

My belief tells me that life has no significant purpose, and we are just meant to be.
We are fragile creatures and everything can be taken away at any moments notice.
So I don't really care if we have a purpose or not. I just try to do what feels good.

Honestly I think the 'what is the meaning of life' question is the easiest of them all, and the simplest. But the answer is so simple that some refuse to swallow it. It's as though everyone wants a drawn out, epic answer.

I think the answer is to just BE.

and by your post, if you realize it or not, you have found your own purpose. A purpose to understand and to grasp a way of being that can put you at ease with your own existence.

i love you too, so go out there and spread it!

 

Wow, that was really amazing.

man. it's so simple. but it's so simple that it seems to upset my brain because I think it wanted something more complicated like you said, hehe. I need some time to chew on this. man I love deep thinking!! and it makes me so happy that there are other people who like to think, too, and that there are brains that are alive, because those are the ones that will change the world. anyway...

thank you so much for that. I dont even know what to say, hah. I had all the ideas but I just needed some help making the connections, and now that you've helped me make them I think I've had some kind of epiphany! i probably sound kinda silly but who cares! woo. now my goal in life is more clear and I can start trying to make it happen. and I only have like 70 years to do it

thanks so much again, and I'll make sure to spread the love, because if i don't, how will I be able to feel at ease with my own existence?

 

some people are so concerned with doing they forget about being. when i was in your shoes pondering the meaning of life i started to read a lot of books. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac inspired me to check out Buddhism and I think it's helped me a lot with my frustrations about not knowing 'the meaning'

 

This is my take mining of life easy to find but u have to look look at all living things meaning of life didn't just start with a one person one day a 1000 years ago the meaning of life stared withe the life its self it dose not mater if u are a human a frog a bug or a plant they all have it.

what every life form on earth does excluding things like eating breathing well to keep them self a live?

Its reproducing no one needs to do it but everyone does or at lees try there best meaning of live is to make a child to continue the life its self because if every life form dies then there really no meaning at all.

 

Life is, what you make of it.
For the matter on existence.
There are 2 things in this universe, there is energy then theres matter, read this quote from bill hicks.
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, that there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imaginations of ourselves."
You realize that the universe is pure and simple energy. The point im trying to make is that our spirit our soul is just energy when we die we will be consumed by the bigger energy which religions call god.

 

This thread asked my question and answered it at the same time.
You guys are talking about 'being'.
I feel like nothing but I want to be somebody. I'm just a drop in the ocean. No matter what I do I'll still be a single drop. I want to be 'more'. But I guess that's what all humans want, 'more'.

 

couldn't you argue that even "a drop in the ocean" is a significant part of the ocean. that one drop could be swallowed by someone, and in doing so, that drop would become part of that person and just continue on and on. i know, kind of a random example, but you get my point. by existing as a human (drop) in this universe (ocean) you are affecting it somehow, whether you are keeping things in blance or throwing the universe off. basically, everything seems to me to have some kind of eventual meaning/purpose by merely existing.

 

What is 'somebody'? You mean leave a mark on this world? Become part of history? Everyone wishes that. If you want to leave a mark, go and kill everyone you encounter, I'm sure you'll get famous that way.

'Being' is you living and breathing and thinking. If you want to be happy, say fuck it all. Leave behind everything you don't need. You only need one thing in this world, and that is knowledge.

'Why' is a question applicable to everything. If you can study and figure out 'why' then you can obtain knowledge with ease.

 

I agree with you that every little thing has it's meaning/purpose by existing.
I just don't know what mine is or if I even have one.

 

Your purpose is to be happy. What makes you happy? Why? What can you do to achieve it? What things do you need to get rid of to achieve it?

 

For me, happy is having great friends and family. Where I can talk to them about anything and do anything. Where we can laugh about things together and cry together. I don't know what I need to get rid of to achieve happiness but I know what I need to gain.
Honestly my family are like strangers to me and I don't ever consider my 'friends' as being actual friends, more like acquaintances. I'm sick of being alone, no one understands me. I need to feel like I belong somewhere, with people. That's what's really making me unhappy.

 

You have a boyfriend or girlfriend? If not, you need to start searching. Most people i ran into, that feel the way you do, feel empty and they feel like there is no purpose in anything. What they did was just find someone to love and they became happy. They got more confident, I think thats what you need, confidence.

 

I definitely need a girlfriend. That would boost my confidence and moral so much.
I have been searching but no luck, obviously....

 

move to a new area, there are plenty of ladies out there, just keep searching.

 

I can't just "move to a new area". But I won't stop searching, I need this more than anything.

 

Maybe your influenced in some extent by a sociopath, someone probably manipulating you into thinking your nothing more than a useless human. I thought the way you did for a little while, and i recognized that my own mother was a sociopath, she paints negative pictures in peoples heads to try to get things her way. She lost all control of me, and now im studying her and she is still trying to manipulate me and the only way to do that is through my brother. My brother ends up making me feel guilty for not doing something for my mom, so i end up doing it anyways. My problem is compassion, i forgive to easy and let things slide way to fast. My brother is learning from my mother too, but he likes the idea of outsmarting people and dominating for his satisfaction to make him look better. Bad chemistry leads to insane feelings.