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The Value and Meaning in Life.

 I have been thinking about goals, and what motivates me to accomplish things in my life. I can say that there are times when I can feel like I have no purpose, no direction and no motivation. 💡The reason why I might feel that I have no goals is because sometimes with depression nothing interests me. Finding direction can lead me to set specific goals for my life, and the desire to achieve those goals can create motivation to accomplish them. It doesn’t matter how old you are, you can always find something that gives your life meaning and purpose. When you find yourself motivated to set out and do something, the meaning that comes from accomplishing those goals will create motivation to create new goals and carry you forwards to accomplish new things.


Sometimes our fear prevents us from setting out to accomplish our goals because we can fear failure, and what other people think of us, or we may no longer care about reaching our goals because we have had so many setbacks and obstacles that made us feel we weren’t important or worth it. We can also look at other people’s lives and feel that they have it relatively easy compared to us because they have better mental health, a  job, a better home or everything seems to work out for them.


So we tell ourselves it’s not that important for us to succeed in life, and that God will understand because so long as I try, that’s all that matters. This is partly true, but if we give up in seeking our goals, life can become empty and whatever suffering we are dealing with can overwhelm us and feel overburdensome. 


So it’s important to set goals especially if you are not feeling well or if you spend a lot of time alone. When we are alone most of the time, we don’t have someone to be accountable to, so we can isolate more, and accomplish very little in our lives. When we feel helpless it’s important to remember to try and do something, until we achieve even a little success. It can be hard to stay motivated when we don’t have anyone to be accountable to. Some people give up trying to achieve their goals, because they reason that if nobody else cares about them, then why should they care.


All this does is create a lack of motivation, and a paralyzed state of being because then we begin to fear success in anything. If the evil in this world can convince us that we are not worth being happy, it might feel that all the powers in this world are against us! But God brings light into our lives, and it’s what we do with that light, that determines if we will stay stuck, or break out of feeling bad, and follow those things that give our lives meaning and purpose.


If you feel your life has no meaning, you won’t be motivated to do anything because anything you attempt to do will feel meaningless. It’s only when you are genuinely convinced that life has a purpose, that you will set out to achieve something of value because you will actually be convinced that whatever you are doing has purpose. If the goal of your life is to empty yourself, you will ultimately end up trying to empty your life and the things in your life of their intrinsic value and meaning. It will kill your motivation because you will be convinced that emptiness is the solution to avoid suffering. Even suffering has value and purpose to God, so you should avoid calculating a zero purpose to even the insignificant or trivial things in your life. Somethings do have a greater purpose, and it’s not our job to find the meaning or purpose for everything, but instead to attribute value to life, instead of nothingness. When things appear to have no value, be aware that you may be buying into an atheistic or Darwinian mindset that places less value on the unimportant and promotes the strong over the weak. Don’t let this way of thinking influence or shape your own beliefs because this type of thinking also promotes the emptying of yourself and the nothingness or emptiness as the solution to the problem. Be careful not to buy into this deception. It can paralyze you and kill motivation. God gives things their intrinsic meaning. Where God is lost or not remembered in our society, things seem to lose their purpose. This is Mike.


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