Everything happens for a reason.
Maybe the trick is not to care too much.
Like the Stoics.
Don't let every single line in the sketch distract you from seeing the sketch as a whole.
What do you love?
What is your purpose?
Why do you exist?
Now these are the true questions.
Do you live struggling to achieve temporary successes and victories--that compliment that you long to hear from your parents, that six digits salary, that house, that car, that position, that game, that friend, that girl, that boy, that dress...
Or do you rather struggle and know that you have lived a fulfilling life and have attained eternal happiness in your life after death?
Why spend your energy and invest our emotions on temporary joys.
I've had enough worries.
Worries that I might not succeed in my temporary goals,
that I might fail...
things might not work out...
The truth is,
Nothing that works out on this planet will last.
People that succeeds in this life--
even philosophers and saints..
They have to leave this place someday.
So why,
Why
Why
do we so desperately seek for the kind of happiness that dies in life.
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Dear Ev,
I think your writing is rather pessimistic. You are constantly writing about all the bad things going through your head. It almost seem that you worry too much that you fail to spend time planing in attaining a positive result. I do not mean to attack or be rude. I just get the feeling that you are in some sort of depression, which you are self feeding by just looking at the negative side of life. If life was only as you portrayed it in your posts then we all might as well give up on life and die.
In answering the questions:
What do you love?
I think that is very circumstantial. Love comes and goes. You choose what to love every day you wake up. Some other times loves just reach to you, and you decide whether or not to respond to it.
What is your purpose?
Why do you exist?
I think those two questions find their roots in the same answer. Existentialist thinkers most fundamental argument is that you choose what to do with your radical freedom. That is you choose your purpose in life without deterministic excuses, "existence precedes essence." The second big idea of existentialism is that we can never be truly our selves, because we are a temporal being "WE ARE ALWAYS YET TO BE."
One of my personal contributions to the existentialist school of thought is that if one is aware that life at a given point is abounded by systematic circumstances, whatever actions taken today will rule the future specific circumstances still abounded by the system.
I also relate to your stress because what comes with being a senior in a country other than your own. My advice is take care of what needs to be taken care off and the rest will happen inertially.
Cheers!
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