Inherently life has no fixed meaning to it. It is on us to define what is meaningful and what is not. Because we cannot live by thinking life is meaningless. Why would you even bother getting out of bed if you do not have a purpose?
It is better to have a purpose, which can be anything and live for it. But even if you do not achieve it after trying your best, find something else. Do not be disheartened by feeling my life is worthless, as there isn’t a fixed measurement for calculating the worthiness of life. This realization can also help you stop cribbling on your past mistakes and help you realize that if you change the definitions of things according to you, there is hope that you can make your life worthy of living for yourself!
Wasting time regretting things from the past, will add it to the list of regrets.
Rather make peace with the past, carry the lessons and lead the present and future better.
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” ~ Soren Kierkegaard.
For anyone having suicidal thoughts, answer this one question:
We will die one day, maybe the next moment or later, so why not enjoy the limited time we possess?
And if you want to understand how death feels, then observe what happens in between when you go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning. But there is a change in case you have died that there is no (morning)coming back. That is how it feels to lose consciousness, to lose yourself permanently!
Even if you make mistakes, go through tough times that you feel are unbearable at the current moment, have mental problems, or feel empty, remember they all are temporary. Life will give you a second chance. So why not give life a chance?
Having no meaning does not mean you have to end your life. Will ending your life give it meaning? Instead, there will be no life in the first place to bestow meaning.
Experiencing life in itself is a meaning, which is far better than dying and losing the ability to experience anything at all!
So live this limited life for yourself, experience things to your heart’s content and never give up on life.
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
— Dale Carnegie
