"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."The other day I was talking to James and he had a conversation with a mutual friend and he asked him, "Are you happy?" Which is one of those super generic questions but it took the friend by surprise because people so rarely asked him that. Like his life is full of friends, activities, and general happiness but beneath it lies a lot of unrest and skepticism about the direction everything is going. What was lacking was a purpose. For example, I don't want kids, I'm essentially devoid of a career, and I'm not tied into the idea of finding marriage or a life partner, so at the end of the day, what do you live for? I guess the short answer is that you have one life to live so it's always worth doing something versus nothing but without anything tying you down, it can be a very transitory existence. You make do and try to accomplish what you can and search out joy wherever you can but that's almost pointless right? Like the same as just idling and hoping time passes?
-Thoreau-
It's about finding purpose, I guess.
