What brings you a sense of purpose/meaning?
I've never felt a "purpose" and I don't believe that we have any high moral of philosophical reason for being either. I just live by the 3 principles:
Other than that, my love for the natural world gives me strength and my constant curiosity and desire to learn about the world around us
My answer is like yours, except for the part about not upsetting anyone along the way.
@birdingnut Well you can upset some people ... I can think of a few I'd like to upset ... just not too many
Volunteering for and donating to good causes.
My kids. I am a single parent. They are my world
My children and their children. I want an inhabitable safe world for the babies.
Art. Music. This site. Answering this question. I have learned in life that the simplest pleasures are the sweetest berries to be savored. Did I just write that? I think I puked in my mouth a little.
because of the berries? try a different kind
My purpose is to live each day the best I can and to help those I love. Beyond that, I have none.
For a lot of years it was raising my kids but their grown now so without any hesitation it's playing music. I play a LOT of music I'm in a morris dancing band and run a fortnightly session and play in other sessions. My kids laugh at me because I'm over 25 years clean but i spend a huge amount of time in pubs we also have 'kitchen sessions' where we go to each others homes and sit around playing tunes, drinking tea and talking 'bollocks'
? a session is when a group of musicians get together to play -usually folk music
? morris dancing is a very strange phenomena and probably best you-tubed
?a pub is a lot like a bar
? bollocks are actually male genitals but in this sense used to mean 'chatter chatter'
You can only give yourself purpose because the universe is nothingness.
I live day to day. I'm alive because I have to be.
not to mess with your head but why do you say you have to be? I don't think we have to be alive and somehow we create our own meaning
I don't like life rn. I also don't have the guts to kill myself either. I live with depression.
@Sarahroo29 I read in what you just said.... depression lives in you and is sucking you dry!!! Do something about it... that should be your purpose.
Hugs
@GipsyOfNewSpain Okay.
@Kelkat Thanks.
I'm pretty sure we are here to create. It doesn't matter if it's art, music, carpentry, inventions.... It seems to me that once the basics of getting by are covered, making new things is really the only thing we can do to add to our world as we know it.