I lost my purpose in life
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learn new things. like play sports. Basketball
when u got a goal in mind, u will work hard towards it. aim for str As then!!! -
hey man...Originally posted by ifish:No mood to do anything.
Not even to go out or go school.
I rather stay in bed whole day.
I know this is not good but I just lost motivation in doing just anything.
I feel as if my purpose of life is gone
THERE'S NO PURPOSE TO LIFE IN THE FIRST PLACE!
We get born, and we die. That's it! Life's a joke, lol
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maybe sometimes its good not to be bother to think whether there is any purpose in life.....just live it as it is.....its a journey....move along...sometimes u arrive at a beautiful patch of grassland....at times u fell into the monsoon drain...well welll....
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Emptiness, once experienced, can become a way of avoiding work, effort and responsibility.
It becomes an excuse or a justification for noncreative living.
If all is vanity, if there is no new thing under the sun,
if there is no joy to be found anyway,
Why bother? why try?
If life is a treadmill, if we work 8 hours a day so that we can afford a house to sleep in, so that we can sleep 8 hours to be rested for another day's work, why get excited about it?
ALL these intellectual "reasons" vanish, however, and we experience joy and satisfaction, when once we get off the treadmill , stop going around in circles and select a goal worth striving for.
Life is worthwhile only when u have firmly fixed in your sights worthwhile goals.
Emptiness is a symptom that u r not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.
The person who has no purpose of his own pessimistically concludes, " LIFE has no purpose." The person who has no goal worth striving for concludes, "Life is not worthwhile." The person with no important job to do complains, " there is nothing to do."
Even the most elderly can operate as goal-striving, sanguine people.
Set your goals and go for it!
Take care -
Start a hobby!! like playing sports / assembling models / photography / sampling all the great makan places in SG
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so what caused the change?
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Originally posted by royale9:
thats not the buddhist emptiness
Emptiness, once experienced, can become a way of avoiding work, effort and responsibility.
It becomes an excuse or a justification for noncreative living.
If all is vanity, if there is no new thing under the sun,
if there is no joy to be found anyway,
Why bother? why try?
If life is a treadmill, if we work 8 hours a day so that we can afford a house to sleep in, so that we can sleep 8 hours to be rested for another day's work, why get excited about it?
ALL these intellectual "reasons" vanish, however, and we experience joy and satisfaction, when once we get off the treadmill , stop going around in circles and select a goal worth striving for.
[b]Life is worthwhile only when u have firmly fixed in your sights worthwhile goals.
Emptiness is a symptom that u r not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.
The person who has no purpose of his own pessimistically concludes, " LIFE has no purpose." The person who has no goal worth striving for concludes, "Life is not worthwhile." The person with no important job to do complains, " there is nothing to do."
Even the most elderly can operate as goal-striving, sanguine people.
Set your goals and go for it!
Take care[/b] -
LOL!Originally posted by Omniknight:thats not the buddhist emptiness
Nothing to with religion. More on psychology.
OK. what i'm trying to say is this:
Human beings ALWAYS act and feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.
You cannot escape or outperform that picture.
You can dissect it, analyze it, uncover what is in it that is not true about yourself, and alter it. You can modify it without archaeological examination of the past.
BUT You cannot escape it.
You will always act and perform - and experience appropriate results - in accordance with what you imagine to be true about yourself and your environment. This is a basic and fundamental law of mind. It is the way we are built
TS feeling of emptinesss stems from his mindset.
Change your thoughts, change your outlook of life.
Hope u get the picture. -
All I can say is, when life presents you an oppurtunity, sieze it, strive for it, do your very best.
If you are still studying, do your best academically. This is your purpose for now, for when it comes to pass, you may not have this chance again. -
Originally posted by royale9:
ya.. i think this is how i feel now..
Emptiness, once experienced, can become a way of avoiding work, effort and responsibility.
It becomes an excuse or a justification for noncreative living.
If all is vanity, if there is no new thing under the sun,
if there is no joy to be found anyway,
Why bother? why try?
If life is a treadmill, if we work 8 hours a day so that we can afford a house to sleep in, so that we can sleep 8 hours to be rested for another day's work, why get excited about it?
ALL these intellectual "reasons" vanish, however, and we experience joy and satisfaction, when once we get off the treadmill , stop going around in circles and select a goal worth striving for.
[b]Life is worthwhile only when u have firmly fixed in your sights worthwhile goals.
Emptiness is a symptom that u r not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.
The person who has no purpose of his own pessimistically concludes, " LIFE has no purpose." The person who has no goal worth striving for concludes, "Life is not worthwhile." The person with no important job to do complains, " there is nothing to do."
Even the most elderly can operate as goal-striving, sanguine people.
Set your goals and go for it!
Take care[/b] -
totally agree working or study make no diff pressure is the same onli diff is one got pay one dun
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Things to look forward to for you:
Getting a new girlfriend perhaps
Having sex for the first time
Getting drunk for the first time
Getting stoned for the first time
Finally finishing school and majoring in a course you're interested in for uni
Getting thru uni and starting life on your own
If that doesn't help then look at it this way -- live in the moment, if there's nothing to look forward to so be it, enjoy every second of the present. Having that mentality always helps when I feel the way you do and believe me, you're not the only one. I feel that way sometimes too but don't let it get to you coz the only thing you can do is to keep on living and the only thing you can do to make your life easier is to enjoy it. -
Very good advice...Originally posted by royale9:
LOL!
Nothing to with religion. More on psychology.
OK. what i'm trying to say is this:
Human beings ALWAYS act and feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.
You cannot escape or outperform that picture.
You can dissect it, analyze it, uncover what is in it that is not true about yourself, and alter it. You can modify it without archaeological examination of the past.
BUT You cannot escape it. You will always act and perform - and experience appropriate results - in accordance with what you imagine to be true about yourself and your environment. This is a basic and fundamental law of mind. It is the way we are built
TS feeling of emptinesss stems from his mindset.
Change your thoughts, change your outview of life.
Hope u get the picture.
Change the way you look at things, and the very nature of things change.
The way you see the problem is the problem.
TS, do something instrinsically meaningful.. How about volunteer work? -
Originally posted by jondizzle foshizzle:
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[b]Things to look forward to for you:
Getting a new girlfriend perhaps
the ones that i fancy doesnt seems to like me back
Having sex for the first time
refer to above
Getting drunk for the first time
sorry.. i dont drink
Getting stoned for the first time
stone as in?
Finally finishing school and majoring in a course you're interested in for uni
the course that i fancy doesnt seems to fancy me. just realise how stupid of me not to study hard for o's
Getting thru uni and starting life on your own
refer to above
I get wad u mean. hope i can find something i can look forward too soon -
been doing volunteer work since last year. know i dont help much but i do hope i make a differenceOriginally posted by ordinaryguy32:Very good advice...
Change the way you look at things, and the very nature of things change.
The way you see the problem is the problem.
TS, do something instrinsically meaningful.. How about volunteer work? -
wad sort of volunteer work are u involve? Those volunteer place did they let u see pple who are dying? I recommend u go do those volunteer work at this place, hospice for the terminally ill etc. From there u will see how fragile life is and i bet my life on it.. U need not find wad u wan in life. u will automatically wake up from ur dream and will go all out for wad u wan as u already know wad u wan juz lazy assuming 'the nite is still young stuff'..Originally posted by ifish:been doing volunteer work since last year. know i dont help much but i do hope i make a difference
Good luck bro. Life is short let's not waste time on this and live life to the fullest -
Don't try to do too much and try to achieve too much. Focus on a few things and get enough sleep and enough food. Many times, life seems so impossible simply because people try to do too much and do not eat and sleep properly.Originally posted by ifish:been doing volunteer work since last year. know i dont help much but i do hope i make a difference -
working with unpriviledge young kids.. and ironically being a mentor for some pri sch kidsOriginally posted by oldbandit:wad sort of volunteer work are u involve? Those volunteer place did they let u see pple who are dying? I recommend u go do those volunteer work at this place, hospice for the terminally ill etc. From there u will see how fragile life is and i bet my life on it.. U need not find wad u wan in life. u will automatically wake up from ur dream and will go all out for wad u wan as u already know wad u wan juz lazy assuming 'the nite is still young stuff'..
Good luck bro. Life is short let's not waste time on this and live life to the fullest
I do see a couple of death lately.. people will only start crying when one is gone. -
you are probably depressed. Yup, one forumer said something correctly.
We live as ego entity, we age , then we die, along with our senses and mind, never to exist and sense anything forever.
So while u are alive, just find something, something like girlfriend and those usual hobbies, or maybe be a global leader which help some poor people, and then get ready to die one day, or any day. -
Hi....
I think......is it possible u r too affected by ur volunteer work?
Perhaps u should take a break from ur volunteer work, coz it seems u are affected by the poor kids, become depressed urself and become unmotivated in life.
U should do something more cheerful....become beach volleyball coach..for example...so u would be outside...at the beach..and see girls u like....
U know what I mean right...?
Change ur activities...try to do something different and more cheerful...
Meat Pao. -
i doubt it's that. it's only a once a week thing on every alternate sat..Originally posted by Meat Pao:Hi....
I think......is it possible u r too affected by ur volunteer work?
Perhaps u should take a break from ur volunteer work, coz it seems u are affected by the poor kids, become depressed urself and become unmotivated in life.
U should do something more cheerful....become beach volleyball coach..for example...so u would be outside...at the beach..and see girls u like....
U know what I mean right...?
Change ur activities...try to do something different and more cheerful...
Meat Pao.
but the real pitiful one are the mentally challenge kids. should have look at the condition of their school at jurong garden. it's 2 different world comparing with an elite sch nanyang pri opposite -
if u are totally lost now.
ask yourself what have you yet to do or completed?
your previous dreams goals, aspirations and perhaps your interest as well?
re-look at your diray/blog if you have the habbit of writing or look back at the past photographs and see if you can re-find your purpose again. -
Find something to do, get yourself a new hobby.
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x3Originally posted by de_middle:X 2
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i was on that too....Originally posted by ifish:i use to have smth to look forward to everyday..
smth to look forward in sch,
smth to look forward in life..
but i seem to lost it..
i feel so less motivated nowadays
but now i have my motivation...
that is the person i like the most...