Anyone else struggling to find meaning in life and wondering what it's all about?

[Mumonceremoved]

Middle aged and generally just wondering what the point of it all is.

Why are we here?
What's the meaning of life?
What even is happiness?

Anyone else just feeling meh about the day to day drudgery and futility of it all?

Or if you did feel this way, how did you manage to snap out of it?

Is it normal?

Yup.

I was very religious. I truly believed. I believed that god guided me and loved me.

Then my life turned to shit. I’ve had some horrendous things happen, over the last three years especially.

”god gives us our struggles to overcome”

FUCK THAT.

Delude yourself all you like, just like I was deluded for 40 odd years. There is nothing.

@Chunkycookie ❤️

I'm not saying ALL science is deception but how can anyone disprove our creator ?

I've had horrible life too. I'm a parent carer special needs child and I won't mention all thr rest . It made me grow closer to God because Satan is just waiting for us to fail and lose our faith.

Science doesn’t have to disprove something for which there has never been the tiniest vestige of evidence.

Fine if religion makes your life feel meaningful, but accept it’s a man-made belief system aimed at explaining the world before the development of science, and to fend off the fear of death.

Well, maybe satan will treat me better than god ever did.

Don’t believe in satan either anymore. I am no longer willing to be controlled by a church.

To the people who wonder whether "this is all there is"... what would you need to happen, what would there need to "be", for you to find joy in it?

I love being alive, it is such a rarity in a mostly dead and empty universe. I am fascinated by the tiny details in the wing of an insect, a strange flower, a shiny rock. I love spending time in nature. I have studied two different careers in professions that I find fascinating and also help make other people's life better. I enjoy interacting with my dog immensely. I love playing music. I love reading. I am getting ready to go volunteering to places where people, especially women, have not been as fortunate as I have been.

I find life endlessly fascinating, precisely because it is so rare and so brief.

This is an interesting thread. Thank you. 🌷

Also put simply, I choose faith over sitting looking around at all the obvious evil in this world getting worse and feeling powerless like nothing can be done. It's all a game of life and its coming to an end one day with our God dealing with all the evil ones.

There is no meaning, we all just evolved

Ah.. yes I don't go to church either. I am a whole Bible believer. I don't fit in with the church people as much anymore. I never did. I choose to be a follower of the way not some Sunday church person only. I have not felt comfortable in church and that is another failing of humans.

Why not do something about the ‘evil’ yourself? I volunteer as a Samaritan and teach literacy to prisoners as an atheist. There’s a strong correlation between poor literacy and crime. You don’t need to sit about waiting to an invisible but omnipotent entity to step in.

Also I am sure somewhere there are great churches but I haven't been able to settle in one where I am.

That I agree with. I was the same.

But after what I have been through, the things I have seen, I can no longer believe in god. No god would put me through what I have been through.

I was told god was sitting with me as I was told I was going slowly blind and I won’t see my children’s beautiful faces as they grow up.

I was told he was sitting with me as I watched my dad die of horribly and painfully of thirst for three days.

I was told he was with me as I lost my 16 week baby on the bathroom floor.

The final straw was watching my dad die. He was lucid in his last seconds and terrified. He died frightened and upset.

I just cannot believe anymore. I saw though it. The scales fell from my eyes in a split second and I knew there was nothing. It all left me in an instant.

The evil I'm talking about isn't petty crime its actual evil. But anyway. You know where I am coming from.

I'm so sorry to hear this all happened.

I never suggested it was. I offered my two volunteering roles as examples of something that anyone could do to try to make things slightly better, without waiting for a deity to do it. He seems to be doing a remarkably poor job with his creation.

OK. Why did the apes / monkeys stop evolving into humans ? I do not believe in evolution.

Look I totally get what you are saying but I'm talking about evils in the world and we all see it. However humans are not robots, God created us as free thinking humans. He wants us to choose him not be forced into a relationship with him. Relationships work both ways...

Who says we've stopped evolving? Evolution takes thousands of years. We're alive for a tiny fraction of that.

We are here to reproduce…and after that just enjoy life ..enjoy the simple things

This makes no sense to me but you will believe what you want I suppose.

I think a lot about this off and on and have read around it over the years. The phrase I often come back to as being the most useful for me is to "do something of value every day". It could just be something very small, for yourself or someone else, but it's one of the things that gives life meaning and purpose and stops a person sliding into the spiral of hopelessness.

Spiral of hopelessness is a very good description of how I feel. A downward spiral of apathy.

@Veggielove84 primates stopped evolving because evolution occurs when there are harsh environmental / survival challenges , if they are not exposed to these challenges enough to stimulate a change then they are doing fine as they are, they are and are at optimum for their lifestyle and environment so they don't need to adapt or spend energy on unnecessary adaption. There is no script or end game , no animal has a blue print mapped out to eventually reach a particular morphine it's all to do with adapting to challenges.