life help: There has to be more to life than this. - Help.com

You talk about college, so it sounds like you are not out of high school yet. I look back at high school and think of all the flailing idiots who were there - including me. Even those arrogant h.s. kids who thought they knew what they wanted out of life, many of them changed their majors halfway through college. College can be a time to get the training for a job you are suited for, like lawyers or doctors. But it’s often, for most of us, a time to safely try things, cuz no one knows about us and our history. We can reinvent ourselves a couple times if we want, switch departments at the school, and just claim we are changing majors! Lots of folks find passions that way. There are still lousy humans there, but as you explore and learn (really learn, not the crap they dish out in h.s.), you find some thoughtful worthwhile people and ideas. I can’t tell you what those will be for you, but just keep looking. Treat yourself well in the meantime, so you are there, ready when your passions find you. I sound like a greeting card, but it’s true for me and my friends.
People with faith are lucky to have that sense of reassurance, that they are not alone. The rest of us have to create that sense for ourselves, and when we’re discouraged, we can only rely on lousy humans to bolster our hopes, instead of the omniscient God. I know that I can never rely on any one moment to judge the entirety of my life. I am proud of many things I do; yet probably 80% of my life is pretty mundane. Some of it is for a good reason. I have a nice boyfreind, and that means I can’t always just go wherever I want whenever I want, and expect him to hang around - though he understands when I sometimes just need to go or do. Some of my girlfriends have more interesting lives, but they seem to lose their boyfriends more often. I’d rather have the love.
That worthwhile 20% also keeps me motivated not to let the mundane 80% take over even more. It is a conscious effort, and I don’t always have someone there to help me. I just need to keep finding things so that the 20% keeps me feeling like I can honestly smile, and not have to fake it.

death isent the end it’s just another form of life

I need help. I’m a self-pitying 22 year old who has absolutely no idea how get more from life. I beieve that there has to be more to life than this. I know that there is but it’s achieving it that stumps me. Society sucks. Also, whoever says that money can’t make you happy is a big fat liar. Todays sociey is about the hidious cycle of working and consuming. People work to get money and pile that money straight back into the system. People are so influenced and manipulated by the system it is scary. So many people are completely unaware of it. We are all born into this system and only a few people will ever have the sense to debate it. To look around and see what the human race “such an intelligent life form” has done to the world. Technology has been the destroyer of a great many things. Where is the revolution? Where is common sense? Where is happyness?

I guess I have many theorys on this topic, Firstly from an evolutionary non-religous stand point and to put a downer on myself I think, we are merely another species on this planet, like the animals, insects, bacteria, whatever, nothing more important just get born, make the best, re-produce and die, just like all the other species with the only difference being intelligence enough to realise how “pants” it all is. Our brains are not capable of dealing with the prospect of the senceless nature of existence so we all have to beleive there’s a hidden “point” to it all and we just have to find the “point” to achieve happiness, sucsess, whatever and if we can’t then find it we become miserable, unhappy, depressed and we shall bitterly become the pointless waste of space’s we beleive we are. Scientists and Philosiphers and the like, have for century’s tried to discover the meaning of life to satisfy the mental anguish, many think they find “the answer” but you know they don’t, and they never have and they never will because they look in all the wrong place’s and they do not have the intelligence they beleive they do.

See I beleive there is God, un-argueably. I won’t be the one to preach to you, I am simply telling you what I think. Scientists and they’re “big bang theory” is the biggest pile of claptrap I’ve ever heard and yes, I do understand science but to explain away existence in it’s entirety to a big cosmic explosion which started such a chain of events as to explain every single thing? Now to me that is far more unbeleivable than a theory which says there is God an amazing being who created every single thing in heaven and on earth.

For me the only truth is the bible and the only answers in God. I do not beleive I have ever found a religion I beleive to be true in it’s entirety just some truth in all. I could sit and pick apart probably every religion in exsistence if I had the time, to explain why not one is total in truth but I don’t have the luxury of time enough to do that, nor will I be the sort of person who tells anyone what they beleive is not true. All I know is, that I have faith, and love enough in God to know, we were created in his image, we, his children, whom he loves as children not the animals or the insects or the bacteria, we were made as special to him. There IS more than this, but we can try to work it out all we like until time indefinite if we like, but we will know, ONLY when HE is ready to let us know. The best mind on the planet will not be close in it’s guesses and so give up trying to find out. In the meantime, just make good choices, be good and kind, have love, do the best and be the best that YOU can, listen to what it is you feel and more than this find God in your heart and he will have you, in his.

i feel the same way who cares how smart you are or how much money you make in the end its pointless i have been reading a lot of books latley and they make me crave adventure for somthing new to happen and it never does some people wont get what i mean but i do

There does not seem to be a point, please someone tell me if there is. You know in those B grade movies whre the guy wakes up and he is the last man alive on earth, and he screams and crys. Those are my dreams and in my dreams are the only times i am happy.

These souless people who walk past me on the street i want to smash there faces in, burn them, We are all told to get a job , and for what? to earn money for **** we dont even need

I would like to think i’m not alone, that as i typre this millions of other people are having the same thoughts as I, or perhaps i’m just crazy.

It sounds like you have a pretty clear grasp on the condition. It is almost unfathomable, for me anyway. A gift as unique as consciousness miraculously coming into being only to end as though it were any other pattern in the sand to be washed away without so much as a passing condescension by any force of intelligence or compassion in this universe. Yet as miserable as it is to consider how all the greatest of our gifts and potential can simply never cycle through in time to accomplish much in this life save constant compromise, I find it even more incredible to think that at a time when technology offers realistic alternatives, human civilization still insists on sequestering the fountain of life for the highest bidders while the rest of us suffer, breed, work, and die, just like nothing in the world had changed.

What do you mean regenerative therapy and a simple monthly screening could keep me alive for centuries?

All I do now is what this mad world forces me to do by association, by proxy, by unspoken expectations and imagined necessities of our inherited sense of traditional responsibilities so far out of sync with the reality of our modern environment I view them as edicts of lemming cult fanatics obsessed with death and human slavery; all the insidious ways that greed is allowed to invade our lives because somehow our alleged great society never managed to write up proper legislation for a public housing, healthcare, and social welfare program that functions as a safety net for the people, so our lives aren’t allowed to be so completely compromised by the Agenda of the corporations that directly manipulate the context of all the stupid ******** we are made to navigate through just to afford to survive. A thinking person eventually must cease making excuses for the insanity of our collective behavior.

Someone once said “life isn’t fair, its just fairer than death.” In all honesty the only thing I live for is the faint hope of what might still be. Most of the greatest thinkers of our time agree we have an optimistic 50/50 chance of surviving the impending explosion of new molecular bio-technologies also now available to the not-so-highest bidder, but if we do manage to refrain from our own gluttonous vanity enough to hold out for a while, I suppose I’d have to say I’d live to gain access to the technology that would allow me to live long enough for the horrible failure of so much of human nature to finally be suppressed by responsible leadership, and for a day when the human beings on Earth are capable of recognizing themselves as being each of inherent value enough to deserve the right to be truly free in proportion to our collective abundance.

Not a communism, just a bar. A standard. Something better than the same old ******** excuse for why the billionaires shouldn’t have to buy the starving man a sandwich. **** you fat bastards, all of you, and may you roast in the imaginary bad place where all the non-existent souls who were naughty in this life that is all there is go after they finally cease to exist.

I’m definitely not holding my breath.