Fulfillment and meaning in life

[TC]

[Everyone's life is meaningful on moral, political, and social dimensions - we all matter - thats not what this thread is about though...]

Do you feel like your life is full of personally meaningful experiences, experiences and relationships and feelings that make you feel fulfilled, enriched, complete, content?

If not...do you feel an absence?

...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?

Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?



If so, how did you make it happen?

How have you gotten to that point in your life?

What did you need>

How long has it been good this way?


Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?

[Magón]

... That other people feel an absence in their lives, unlike me to a degree.

I personally like to travel to different places, and so I work my ass off all year to get enough money that I can just load up a couple luggage bags, buy a ticket to wherever, and take a plane ride to my destination of choice. It's what I like to do, and it's probably something I'll be getting into as a profession... somehow, someway. So yeah, I've met good people, had interesting and fun experiences in my life of traveling.

[Os Cangaceiros]

There's a howling void where any meaning should be in my life.

[Tablo]

I'm just empty and I try to fill the emptiness with mind altering substances. Made a resolution this year to try and replace the mind altering substances with exercise and sports, but I don't see that happening.

[TC]

http://209.197.11.116/g9z6c6z5/cds/p/2/4/d/24d6bf0303b8082a/Susan_Wolf_on_Meaning_In_Life.mp3?sid=da7511171c9d 2809736274b6c3a1f0a5&l_sid=18828&l_eid=&l_mid=1869581&dopvhost=hw.libsyn.com&doppl=136598855e4ddb395e1ddb398fd8d0b1&dopsig=8482b11df53c28b52f476f69545cb457

[Quail]

I do have meaningful, fulfilling experiences, but I definitely wouldn't say that my life is full of them. I'm generally not a very happy person, and I think that when my life gets to a point where I can get through the vast majority of days without feeling the need to block out my feelings somehow, it will be full of meaningful experiences. I don't really have a plan on how to acheive that though.

[Fawkes]

yes and no.

Playing a show has to be the single most fulfilling and satisfying thing I could ever do, and I don't see myself ever being able to not do that. To exemplify this, after a show I have absolutely no sexual urges or desires and no desire to drink or get fucked up at all because all of my pleasure centers have been maxed out, and I don't want to mess with the natural high I get. I have found nothing more gratifying than the feeling of the energy and intensity of just dropping the microphone and crawling through a crowd screaming and shrieking covered in sweat and blood. I've never felt more alive. And knowing that my presence was felt and experienced by even just one other person is the most fulfilling thing I can imagine.

[Dimentio]

[Everyone's life is meaningful on moral, political, and social dimensions - we all matter - thats not what this thread is about though...]

Do you feel like your life is full of personally meaningful experiences, experiences and relationships and feelings that make you feel fulfilled, enriched, complete, content?

If not...do you feel an absence?

...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?

Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?



If so, how did you make it happen?

How have you gotten to that point in your life?

What did you need>

How long has it been good this way?


Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?

Both I must say.

The social convention amongst people is that you need to travel, party, meet people and collect experiences to have a fulfilling life. I'm getting fulfillment from drawing and writing, or simply laying down and watching the clouds - but sometimes I wonder if I'm missing something which others are experiencing, something amazing.

The most fulfilling thing I remember from my early childhood was to drag a blanket around myself, sit in the darkness for hours and imagine that everything that the Universe was, was inside that blanket. Could also lie outside, just hear the water fall down the stream and sit and admire the texture of a fallen leaf, scrutinising every detail.

A little bit later, I used to use soil, small stones and sticks to build cities behind the house, with small walls, city plans, temples, pyramids, houses and palaces.

80% of my childhood was one big daydream. Dinosaurs, clouds, lost civilisations, "what could be behind the mountains". I designed my own evolutionary trees, created and destroyed planets and civilisations when I was around 10-11 years.

As for the meaning these questions are having to me. I don't know, are people supposed to be fulfilled by certain things?

[black magick hustla]

nihilist as fuck since 1989

drink, write, do math, and die

[black magick hustla]

3.3 Only the proposition has sense; only in the context of a proposition does a name have meaning.

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6.521 The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.
(Is not this the reason why those who have found after a long period of doubt that the sense of life became clear to them have been unable to say what constituted that sense?)

[black magick hustla]

there is no answer to that question and that has made millions of people riot and get angry

[bricolage]

lifes a ***** an then you die, thats why we get high cos you never know when you're gonna go.

[synthesis]

[Everyone's life is meaningful on moral, political, and social dimensions - we all matter - thats not what this thread is about though...]

Do you feel like your life is full of personally meaningful experiences, experiences and relationships and feelings that make you feel fulfilled, enriched, complete, content?

If not...do you feel an absence?

...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?

Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?



If so, how did you make it happen?

How have you gotten to that point in your life?

What did you need>

How long has it been good this way?


Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?

Narcissism FTW

[TC]

Narcissism FTW


Its sad if you think that self-reflection, self-examination, and self-critique are "narcissism." Its also sad that you feel a need to try to demean a thread that other people are engaging actively in with an obnoxious and rude comment.

[Dimentio]

I am almost ashamed that I wrote here, due to the fact that I have my fair deal of crazies after my scalp.

[synthesis]

Its sad if you think that self-reflection, self-examination, and self-critique are "narcissism." Its also sad that you feel a need to try to demean a thread that other people are engaging actively in with an obnoxious and rude comment.

How is it not narcissistic?

[TC]

I am almost ashamed that I wrote here, due to the fact that I have my fair deal of crazies after my scalp.


Don't be, I think what you wrote was really wonderful and thoughtful - and that thinking about this stuff and sharing it is valuable. Thanks for contributing in such a genuine way - it was great.

[Dimentio]

You have started to scare me TC.

Seriously.

Yes yes, people change, and I cannot claim that I am the same person as for example 3 years ago. But I remember you as more impatient and aggressive. I do appreciate this new approach more, and I'm happy if these threads are sincere. Just one question. Are they for a school assignment? I did a similar project on another online community.

[TC]

You have started to scare me TC.

Seriously.

Yes yes, people change, and I cannot claim that I am the same person as for example 3 years ago. But I remember you as more impatient and aggressive. I do appreciate this new approach more, and I'm happy if these threads are sincere. Just one question. Are they for a school assignment? I did a similar project on another online community.

No, its not a school assignment...but you know, I've been around revleft for a *very long time.* As in, seven years I think. Few people are the same in their teens and early 20s as they are in their mid 20s.

I have actually changed as a personality considerably I think - I'm not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing or growth or just different...But I've also changed ideologically and intellectually. I held the same theoretical commitments for a long time - and I still hold some of the same, but I do think I've grown a lot theoretically - I believe I look beyond a lot of my old politics so I still keep them in mind but now consider them only an aspect of a wider politics of liberation and equality.

[Dimentio]

Oh yes, the same here. Welcome back btw!

[KC]

No, its not a school assignment...but you know, I've been around revleft for a *very long time.* As in, seven years I think. Few people are the same in their teens and early 20s as they are in their mid 20s.

I have actually changed as a personality considerably I think - I'm not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing or growth or just different...But I've also changed ideologically and intellectually. I held the same theoretical commitments for a long time - and I still hold some of the same, but I do think I've grown a lot theoretically - I believe I look beyond a lot of my old politics so I still keep them in mind but now consider them only an aspect of a wider politics of liberation and equality.

Yeah you used to be a huge douche but now you're actually nice I thought someone hax0red your account. ;)

[Raúl Duke]

[Everyone's life is meaningful on moral, political, and social dimensions - we all matter - thats not what this thread is about though...]


Do you feel like your life is full of personally meaningful experiences, experiences and relationships and feelings that make you feel fulfilled, enriched, complete, content? Umm, yes but in recent times many of them have been negative experiences and relationships while a few have been good. Nevertheless, negative and positive, I see a lot of meaningful events in my life especially since I was 15-16 to now but in some cases I only notice in retrospect.

If not...do you feel an absence?Even though I have had "experiences," I do feel an absence.


...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?I don't have a plan, but I have a will to do so. Although sometimes I feel self-doubt.


Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?Not exactly, but I guess I do have a few "goals/etc" in mind. I also have some plans but no "big picture plan" although one could say the summation of those plans plus other things I'm unable to plan is the big picture of what point I want to be at.



Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?ehm...IDK, they're life questions, no?

Lastly, one of my plants is to finally learn the guitar and this time I'm going to put some genuine effort


Its sad if you think that self-reflection, self-examination, and self-critique are "narcissism." Its also sad that you feel a need to try to demean a thread that other people are engaging actively in with an obnoxious and rude comment.

+rep


I have actually changed as a personality considerably I think - I'm not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing or growth or just different...But I've also changed ideologically and intellectually.

I've changed too sometime between 2009-2010

[Amphictyonis]

[Everyone's life is meaningful on moral, political, and social dimensions - we all matter - thats not what this thread is about though...]

Do you feel like your life is full of personally meaningful experiences, experiences and relationships and feelings that make you feel fulfilled, enriched, complete, content?

If not...do you feel an absence?

...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?

Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?



If so, how did you make it happen?

How have you gotten to that point in your life?

What did you need>

How long has it been good this way?


Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?

There is no difference between sitting in a dark room drunk and alone or leading the people to glory as long as you choose which one you want to do.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

[Everyone's life is meaningful on moral, political, and social dimensions - we all matter - thats not what this thread is about though...]

Do you feel like your life is full of personally meaningful experiences, experiences and relationships and feelings that make you feel fulfilled, enriched, complete, content?

If not...do you feel an absence?

...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?

Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?



If so, how did you make it happen?

How have you gotten to that point in your life?

What did you need>

How long has it been good this way?


Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?
My life seems to have more meaning than ever

[Ele'ill]

There's a howling void where any meaning should be in my life.

This here.



...do you have a plan to change your life so you can enjoy it to the fullest?

There is no fix for it.





Do you know what you'd need to get to the point you want to be at?

Yes.


Finally: What do these sets of questions mean to you?

Ideological algorithm.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Seem to be having something of a post teenage crisis, inablity to achive dreams, fragilitly of life etc etc. We'll see what happens.

[Sentinel]

It's indeed interesting how much many of us have changed as persons through the years. I see a change in almost all us, actually, and always towards the better. Increased age and maturity is one explanation, but it should be noted that not all of us who have been board members for years were teenagers when we joined.

The maturing process is almost as notable and powerful even after those initial stormy years. This is why it's such a shame that we have to die so soon. Think about it, how wonderful would this world not be if we instead of under 100 had for example 500 or 1000 years on us? :(