When I am alone/not distracted by the obligations and activities of the outside world, I often fall into a nihilistic downward spiral of thought. For me, especially since I'm not religious and do not believe in afterlife/reincarnation it seems like everything I do will be useless and my actions have no real consequences since everything will be forgotten in the end. This empty outlook on life haunts me in lonely times and makes me sad and makes it hard for me to be motivated about anything.
Does anyone have any practical advice on how I can look for a meaning/purpose in my own life, and cling to it. It does not seems like I have something like that at the moment and it would help me hugely if I found my own raison d'être.
P.s. I have heard about optimistic nihilism, but the liberty it praises does not do it for me. I personally seek for something intrinsically valuable in life that my actions can work towards.
Submitted July 29, 2018 at 05:07AM by sk1nnyp3n1s https://ift.tt/2mPDR9m