Life is absurd. Take drugs, make mistakes, explore, learn, love, create. Make peace with the absurd. Sit in it for a while and see what happens. The dude abides…
You're supposed to find a passion or hobby that you can excel at in your spare time. Meanwhile, capitalism in the US has decided to make every effort to extract all possible time from you at bare minimum compensation so that you are too tired and too poor to ever figure out a hobby or passion you can effectively pursue.
Surprisingly, I've found the most fulfillment from raising and caring for my three-year-old daughter. I always feel immense pride when I'm tidying up the house and come abroad a pile of drawings or an arrangement not only of her toys, but whatever things she's found of mine (ie; the Peewee Herman action figure I keep beside my PC). But as fulfilling as it is, children are also inadvertently vampires and drain you of nearly everything you have. So I have to take pleasure in other things as well, like reading fiction, playing games with my wife, and spending time in nature. What I really need is a good mushroom trip through the forest, but it's been several years since I've been comfortable enough to step away from responsibility and parenthood to do something like that, even though it's a wonderful tool to bring one's self back to earth and get your brain firing again.
Highly recommend trying that if you're in the same mental cycle as OP. Definitely don't opt for children if your goal is fulfillment, though. You may gain something huge, but you're also signing off on the other side of your life. It's certainly not a good fit for everyone. You'd think this obvious advice, but a lot of people do just that and wind up miserable and resentful, and their kids in turn grow up with less love and respect than they could otherwise have.
There is no point. At least, there's no overarching design or plan behind your existence. Instinctively we are driven to survive, so the question is: what else?
While we exist, we have senses which can provide pleasure or pain, so the most selfish answer would be to seek pleasures and enjoy them while you can. The correlary being to minimize pain or suffering, which serves as a check on unrestrained pleasure.
I like to take this a step further and work not only to optimize my own pleasure, but the pleasure of others around me. Then guilt is no longer an issue because your pleasure is complementary to theirs. They benefit when you reduce their pain and vice versa.
I believe the original problem stems from artifically self-imposed limitations and expectations on what should be, rather than engaging with what is and imagining what could be.
Work all week, too tired to do something fun. Corporate profits unreasonably high and now I can't afford to engage in activities. Individualistic, nuclear family, isolation because communes reduce profits. Breathing poisoned air, drinking contaminated water, eating trash, refined food. Lost in a maze of suburbs, battling long transit times, alone in a sea of cars. Everyone's left for jobs, or busy working jobs, no time to meet new people.
What is, like, the point?
Do we sit in his emotional wasteland, producing for an other, alone and without the energy to do anything but work until we get sick and can't afford healthcare / are told by doctors the elderly are not their priority as they're no longer productive?
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM.
My thought process during covid. I bought a motorcycle and basically can't stay in one place anymore.
You can sometimes make coffee or a podcast. The rest is haram.
.... Yeah. I feel so bored of my life rn. But like I deserve to be, its boring, I need to change things.
Sometimes there are stories.
They're clearly listening to the wrong podcasts
As other mentioned, you can have a hobbies, just do things and discover. It can be dancing, playing tennis, drawing, listening and collecting cd and vinyl and so on. Some hobbies require money some others not, it's up you and what you want to do.
Be boring and get bored. Find a fuckin hobby or something
Boring people get bored. There are so many exciting experiences available and interesting places to visit and so much freely available distilled knowledge on every subject that takes a lifetime to master even a sliver of, there's not enough time in the day! A person who gets bored when they have free time is a person without curiosity or imagination.
If you're bored then you're boring
Damn... what in the younger-millenial hell is this take?
Maybe drop the entitlement and stop passively waiting for someone else to provide some meaning and purpose to your life. Read a book, take a walk in a park, adopt a pet, learn to cook, play a board game with a friend, smoke a joint and watch the sun set.
I get that it's probably supposed to be some generic "capitalism is ruining the world" sentiment, but this person just sounds insufferable.
