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War  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, how do you find meaning in your life?

Struggled with that for a while...probably still do. What I found most important is, "to who do things matter to?" I found that there were so many things that I was doing that didn't matter to me, but they mattered to others. There were other people I cared about, and I mattered in some form to them. That was really enough for me. To see that it was possible to matter to others. Most lines of thinking like to tell us that nothing matters, but we do matter in some way or another. We matter to each other, and to ourselves.

Another issue I came across was I found myself placing my existence in comparison to the rest of the universe, and that isn't fair to me really. The universe may not give a shit about what's going on in my life or my goals/aspirations, but my family/friends/colleagues might. Hell, I might care about about what I want to do, and that isn't a bad thing. There is something spectacular in the small moments we live through everyday. Those are something worth focusing on, worth spending time on.