If life is meaningless, it's time to become a fool. Strange connection? Philosophical questions, including the topic of the meaning of life, are the problem of smart people. Sooner or later, a thinking person deepens into thoughts about purpose, the highest mission, the ultimate goal. Perhaps it is good that this dilemma remains unresolved, because, having reached its peak, what would a person do next? Is it better to be a joyful fool who doesn’t think about anything global? And how can you learn to be happy if the meaning of earthly joys does not want to be revealed?
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About the problem of an exemplary member of the consumer society:
“All the gum has been chewed, Snickers have been tried, beer has been drunk, all the fashionable gadgets have been bought, I already have an iPhone 17, I’ve been to Goa and the Maldives... what’s next?” Nothing. Possible for the second round. But it’s boring... “Stop! - the society shouts, - Stop! And you know that... you can’t even imagine! You know that... there is already an iPhone 18!!! And you ask what's next! Yes, there are still so many gadgets..."
Today there is a lot of talk about suicide. Even a few days ago, a long post about this to him popped up in the top. It says that there is already such a science - suicidology. They judge and scold everything: why, what is behind it, who overlooked it. These conversations became especially lively after the well-known series of teenage suicides: well-off girls, like them, jumped off the roof. And as often happens, “many letters” - and it’s all gone. That is, the correct reasons are indicated, but secondary, secondary ones. But there are also general, main ones.
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Andrey is a university graduate, self-confident and sees no obstacles. His main goal is to become a lawyer. Six months after graduation, he gets a job as an assistant in a law office. After another six months, he is given the first case for good performance of his duties. A dream came true - the guy became a lawyer. What's next? And then the rookie sets another goal - to win the first case. Soon this desire will come true.
Recognition, client gratitude, new business. The next challenge is to successfully close a more complex hearing. Right away or not, the young man copes with this too. What then?
But nothing, routine, melancholy, a gray day is replaced by a similar one. There is no plan, no guidelines, but the thought appears that everything around is meaningless, and there is no point in living. What to do in such cases?
Set the bar higher. A lawyer may wish to receive a state award, go abroad to work, or become the hero of an article in a newspaper. The more difficult it is to implement a plan, the more life with all its victories is valued.
↑ One hundred years ago
This has already happened.
A hundred or a little more years ago.
I have already written that our time is amazingly similar to the eve of World War I - in many respects. Even today’s attempts to copy that architectural style, which we call “modern”.
Humanity is lost, confused. It seems like it can do a lot, but there’s nothing to live for.
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We need some completely different life, but what kind? No one really understands, but the feeling of impossibility, unbearability of existing life is growing. A feeling of technical power - then it was aviation, today information technology - and helpless weakness, loss of reference points.
And an attempt to find these landmarks . It is no coincidence that the well-known philosophical collections of that ancient and so similar to the current era are called “Milestones”, “According to the Stars”. What is this if not a search for landmarks?
And then there was also an epidemic of suicides. It’s not clear “where to live.” For sensitive natures, this situation is unbearable.
Here is an excerpt from an article by Korney Chukovsky. We are talking about the time exactly 100 years ago - 1910. Then a real epidemic of unmotivated suicides spread. Here is what Chukovsky writes:
“A new story by Maxim Gorky: “Makar decided to shoot himself.” A new story by Ivan Bunin: “I got caught in the belt on the vent and screamed in fear, hanged myself...” A new story by Valery Bryusov: “She poisoned herself...” A new book by Z.N. Gippius: “Last spring, an acquaintance, a student, shot himself...”; “The husband and wife were poisoned...”; “Smirnova drank a glass of vinegar essence...”
This is not a newspaper chronicle, but the beginning of Chukovsky’s article “Suicides”: “In our modern books, now, as in life, an epidemic of suicides is raging.
The strangled and drowned are today's modern heroes. And here’s a new, unprecedented feature: these people are choking and poisoning, and why is unknown.” In 1910 , in the article “The Humor of the Doomed,” Chukovsky already tried to answer this question. And he answered like this: people have lost the beauty of life. The world has become “aesthetically unbearable” for them. “After this there is only death.” Even earlier, he spoke about the widespread loss of ideas, the desire to serve some cause and pursue some goal. And even earlier, he drew attention to the deadly boredom and melancholy diffused in everyday life (and literature), to the ubiquitous “gap” that hides behind newspaper lines, books of poetry and long stories.
All modern literature, notes Chukovsky, is a continuous triumph of abomination and fear, Leonid-Andreev’s “buffoonery and pandemonium of cripples,” Remizov’s “universal nausea.” The universal ugliness of Sasha Cherny:
O madhouse, huge and dirty! A man has fallen to the window eye sockets: He sees the formless, ugly darkness - And in fear that this is forever!
In 1909 Chukovsky wrote:
“Everything in the world is sickening, the whole world seems to be full of “vomit,” our books now repeat, “and who among us dares to disagree with them.” (Based on the book by I. Lukyanova “Korney Chukovsky”. ZhZL. M.: Young Guard. 2006).
“Every day brings us news of suicides that happened here and there, inexplicable, unsolved, threatening to turn into some ordinary, familiar phenomenon of our social life... It’s scary to think: are we really already accustomed to this phenomenon? When has anything like this ever happened to us, when the human soul was valued so cheaply and when there was such public indifference to the fate of the living soul, created in the image of God, redeemed by the blood of Christ? Rich and poor, learned and illiterate, a decrepit old man, and a young man who is barely beginning to live, and a child who can barely stand on his feet - all take their own lives with incomprehensible, insane ease: one simply, the other draping himself and his suicide in the last hour "
Isn't that a very modern quote? Only some outdatedness of the syllable suggests that this was not written yesterday. True, not yesterday. The author is both authoritative and odious - Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Chief Prosecutor of the Synod, the personal embodiment of the so-called “reaction” that followed the assassination of Alexander II. (Article “Diseases of our time.” Moscow collection, 1897).
Life seems meaningless
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A natural subconscious need arises to satisfy this energy hunger, but instead of delving into the reason for its occurrence, in the need to be filled, we perform some empty actions that only aggravate the situation.
We linger in routine chores or just some senseless viewing of TV shows until late at night, so that in the morning again, feeling a strong protest, by an effort of will we bring ourselves into an upright state, shake ourselves into clothes and lead us with kicks and beaters to work.
And so on day after day.
↑ The world according to Ptolemy and Copernicus
Then the philosophy of egocentrism became widespread. It was not a bookish, learned philosophy (however, that was it; Nietzsche, terribly popular, made his contribution, although it should not be exaggerated). It was a practical, everyday philosophy. A certain dominant belief for everyday everyday use (I think this is ideology - a certain mixture of philosophy and religion, intended for everyday use by the broad masses).
So this new everyday philosophy taught: I am the navel of the earth. My whole life revolves around me.
I have the right to everything, the previous prohibitions are prejudices. There is no more sin, no more debauchery, no more authority. Even ordinary people, whose fathers prayed only to God and respected their superiors, became characterized, according to Klyuchevsky, “a pretentious consciousness of their “rights.” In those days, of course, this philosophy covered a narrow urban stratum, but the trouble was the beginning.
Where did this come from? In general, it’s clear. Technological progress brought with it new material opportunities, coupled with superficial enlightenment and mass culture that appeared at that time
(various newspapers, novels for maids).
All this prompted the little man to swell with his newfound importance.
All this led to an inflation of one’s “I”. And since I am the only significant reality, the last authority in the universe, it turns out that there is nothing to rely on in life except yourself.
Pobedonostsev understood this well:
“...an unhappy person, not knowing any other support in life besides his “I”, not having any moral principle outside his “I” to fight life, runs away from the struggle and destroys himself.
Others perish because they are unable to reconcile their perhaps lofty ideal of life and activity with the lies of their environment, with the lies of people and institutions; Having lost faith in what they deceptively believed in, and having no other true faith in themselves, they lose their balance and cowardly flee from life... And how many of them were destroyed by a sudden and uneven rise, destroyed by the power to which they frivolously aspired, which they took on yourself - is it too much for you? Our time is a time of imaginary, fictitious, artificial quantities and values with which people mutually seduce each other; it has reached the point where it sometimes becomes difficult for real dignity to manifest itself and justify itself, because in the market of human vanity only an inflated, shiny coin has currency.”
He compares modern egocentric philosophy with Ptolemy's geocentric astronomical model. For him, celestial bodies revolve around the Earth, which led to the need to come up with various complex (and false) designs in order to justify the “wrong” behavior of celestial bodies.
“Centuries passed like this until Copernicus appeared and removed the false center from this system. Everything became clear as soon as it was discovered that the universe does not revolve around the Earth, that the Earth has no dominant significance at all, that it is nothing more than one of many planets and depends on forces infinitely exceeding its power and significance.”
— writes Pobedonostsev.
But in everyday philosophy the movement was the opposite: a person who once “knew his place” in the universe moved to
- exclaims Pobedonostsev.
Argue with yourself.
This is one of the psychological techniques. The psychotherapist turns the situation around in such a way that the patient begins to contradict himself and seek a refutation of his own thoughts. However, this technique can be carried out independently, without the help of a specialist. How to do it? A few steps:
- form an initial phrase, a starting point from which the dialogue will continue. In this case, these are the words “Life is meaningless”;
- add an argument in favor of the main statement, for example: “My life has no meaning because I do not contribute to this world”;
- mentally create yourself as an opponent who believes in the opposite point of view;
- find a counterargument to the initial phrase, for example: “I am useful because I help people / make someone happy / contribute my part to the development of the country (+ description of a specific example)”;
- continue to build a dialogue according to the “argument-counterargument” scheme, alternately taking the side of both personal opinions.
The beauty of this method is that all the answers are in yourself, your own subconscious. At the same time, special skills and complex spiritual quests are not needed here. The main thing is to start, and the thought will flow like a river. Similar practices are also carried out with friends, when someone close to them defends the opinion of meaninglessness, and the person herself tries to convince a friend of the opposite. You can record the dialogue in a notebook or on a tape recorder, but oral practices without memorization are no less effective.
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↑ I am the navel of the earth!
How does that time, a hundred years ago, differ from ours?
It differs purely quantitatively – not qualitatively. A hundred years ago, the overwhelming majority waged a difficult struggle for existence, for a piece of bread.
For the vast majority, basic satiety was already a decent achievement in life. Therefore, they simply did not have the strength to think of themselves as the navel of the earth. Today the philosophy of egocentrism
is the prevailing philosophy. I repeat: we are not talking about bookish, but about practical, everyday philosophy, which determines behavior. Maybe it’s better to call it not philosophy, but the dominant feeling of life.
Everyone today is the navel of the earth.
He is a “snob”, “selfish”, he “loves himself”, “he deserves it”. What exactly? That's all. He is a VIP, he is exclusive, he is a creative class. He is realizing himself. Myself! Beloved yourself!
He does something as long as it motivates him, as long as there is drive, and leaves when the drive disappears somewhere. When making any decision, he listens intensely to himself: “Does this make me happy? Not happy?
“I live with him as long as it’s convenient for me,” - who hasn’t heard such speeches from modern young and advanced girls who are passionate about fitness and wellness. Today's Dunyasha considers this wisdom terribly progressive.
Responsibilities? Duty?
All this is totalitarianism, a scoop, almost a concentration camp. I don’t owe anyone anything (and I do – I forgive everyone). Well, unless THEY are obliged. Who are they? Well, officials, the state, the traffic police... Otherwise, if I take it, I’ll get out of Raska if it no longer suits me.
This life position makes a person extremely unstable and fragile under the blows of life. His only support is himself; he does not have and cannot have any other support.
What gives a person stability is not rights, but responsibilities.
As strange as this may sound at first glance. They keep him afloat.
Hence the ease of parting with a life that did not live up to expectations, that does not make you happy. Nothing tragic seems to be happening, but there is no drive. In such a situation, any minor trouble can make life radically hateful.
and worthy of jumping off a roof.
Along with fast suicide, slow suicide is expanding - drugs
. This is not a hackneyed image at all - it is a fact. The painful unbearability of life leads to drugs. It is curious that drugs came into relatively wide use exactly a hundred years ago; there is a good story about this by Bulgakov, “Morphine.” And the massive distribution of drugs happened precisely when mass security was achieved, coupled with humanism-egocentrism.
Survival has become easy, you don’t have to fight for a piece of bread, it is practically guaranteed (in the countries of the “golden billion”). There are no responsibilities. If I want, I work, if I don’t want, I don’t work. I can look for a calling until I turn gray, or I can not look, and no one can tell me. Now I have heard more than once from elderly aunts from the most democratic environment: “Mar-Ivanna has such a good son. Work is gone...” That is, a completely “regular” way of life emerged – without working.
Be a team player
The very basic foundation of his moral code was based on sport, sportsmanship and team spirit.
At a young age, he was a goalkeeper for the Racing Universitaire d'Alger (RUA), Algeria's former multi-national team.
Their soccer team competed for the North African Cup, a small territorial soccer competition bordering a few select European and African countries.
Team sports shaped his personal life in many ways and he personally placed great emphasis on the importance of socialization through sport.
“I owe everything I know about morality and the responsibilities of men to football.”
He was very grateful for the camaraderie in achieving a common goal. Not to mention the sense of determination and community courage that was encountered in overcoming the enemy and the challenges.
↑ Self-reliance?
Previously, a girl's responsibility was family. There was significant social pressure: to get married and have a child. It’s a lie that all the girls really wanted to get married. Not everyone wanted it.
Many elderly matrons told me that at one time they did not want to get married at all, and there was no special love, but it’s just that it’s accepted, it’s supposed to be indecent to be unmarried. It was a social norm, so uncontested that it was not even noticed: how could it be different?
As one mother explained to her daughter (my classmate): “You were given birth, and you must give birth.”
One old German journalist told me how thirty years ago in Germany a girl who did not marry was considered a despicable and worthless creature. Today it seems like mossy nonsense. Yes, it suppressed the personality and prevented its creative self-expression, but it also gave meaning to life. This gave a person stability: there is a certain imperative, there is some authority that is higher than you. And you should not reason, but carry out.
The Motherland was an imperative support for many.
“Think about your Motherland first, and then about yourself.” This is not fiction, not poetic exaggeration, these are the real feelings of many. There are still generations alive in which this was the dominant feeling. Such people performed miracles.
Imagine: a destroyed country after the Great Patriotic War was restored in just a couple of years. My mother-in-law told how industrial Zaporozhye was being restored, which she witnessed, and her parents were participants. Today this is hard to believe.
Nowadays, with today's technology, this process would be delayed for decades. And don’t talk about fear and prisoners. If today’s leaders are given a million prisoners or even a million cyborgs who don’t even need to be fed, they still won’t build anything.
Because no one thinks about the Motherland, and there is nothing to rely on within oneself
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But those of that time had something to rely on. They relied on this highest authority. Compared to her, they felt small, small, a grain of sand, insignificant. They were only material for the great - the Motherland.
In the 90s (and even a little earlier), they laboriously trampled on the idea of the primacy of the public over the personal
. Sacrifice yourself for the sake of the Motherland? Only the confused scoops can do this, but the advanced ones think about themselves and their convenience, or, well, about their self-expression. A person with his rights is more important than the people, society, and the state, the nightingales of Perestroika sang to us.
How clever and wonderful it seemed! The state is for the person, not the person for the state. It exists for his convenience, to provide him with “social services”. Yes, that the state is everything, everything in the world for him - a person, for his unique and valuable personality. He's the boss here.
Well, so that the main personalities do not cut each other off, it was invented that the only limitation on your freedom is the freedom of other equally unique navels of the earth.
But for some reason modern people are becoming thinner, weaker and more banal in their thoughts and actions
. Well, maybe pour excrement on someone, as the group “War” did, which gave the world famous blasphemers.
Actually, of course, this is a logical absurdity: how can a part be more important than the whole? But then no one paid attention to this, so beautiful and attractive was the brave new world, devoid of Soviet restrictions and oppressions, which completely surrounded the individual with all sorts of tedious responsibilities and painful debts.
But then something unpleasant turned out to be true. In order to do something significant, and simply to resist the troubles of life, and perhaps in order to simply live - for all this, a person needs to have internal support in the form of something Great, greater than himself
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Great is not necessarily the Motherland. Greatness can take on different forms. This could be God, true faith.
Why did the first Christians gladly go to execution? Because they were led and supported by faith. They had great support. Mikhail Weller said it right: if there is nothing worth dying for, then there is no point in living.
Today, most people have, in general, no reason to live. They live somehow like this, by inertia, encouraging themselves with social and chemical doping, but if some difficulty happens... well, well, this life. This is the picture that emerges: a modern person cannot die for his Motherland, for his beliefs, but to die just like that is easy.
Why was it that once upon a time people could die for their beliefs, but today it’s somehow awkward to even talk about it: crazy fanatics, of course, have not known the benefits of tolerance and human rights.
Today's man cannot die for his convictions, not only because, as a rule, he does not have them. He also cannot because to do this he must recognize beliefs ABOVE HIMSELF. And what could be higher than a person himself? Can't do anything. It is said: everything is in the name of man, everything is for the good of man.
Not only the Motherland or God can be the highest, transpersonal value. For some, this highest authority and at the same time the support was Art and Science. The main thing is that your attitude towards THIS should be SERVICE. You, little one, serve this great one. THIS was for a person incomparably higher than him - small, temporary, transient.
These were the heroes of Daniil Granin, the heroes of the cult Soviet film “Nine Days of One Year”.
↑ Culture without cult
It was with this formulation of the question that a small man became a big man, he performed miracles and demonstrated the highest achievements. Vita brevis est, ars lunga - Life is short, art is long.
An artist only creates truly artistic works when his small, short, butterfly life is subordinated to the highest and eternal - art.
If not, if he’s just doing it “for fun,” if he’s working to “raise money” or to promote himself, then art doesn’t work. In this case, he is a craftsman, a cold shoemaker.
These are, for the most part, modern “creators”. And they produce not works of art, but art objects. Anyone can observe how this looks in practice by comparing modern painting with the painting of past centuries. Likewise other types of art.
“Culture” is etymologically related to the word “cult”. If an artist does not serve beauty as some kind of absolute idea, he will not create anything, even if he is endowed with talent and, in principle, could. He simply does not learn his art, because it is difficult for a long time, it requires self-discipline and a certain self-sacrifice, but why did he give up?
That is why we observe a vertical decline in technology in all arts without exception. According to modern social convention, everyone pretends that this is how it should be, that this is such a newfangled style and trend, but in reality it is simple ineptitude. Inability to sing, dance, draw, make films... Well, I painted something - and okay, people eat it anyway.
And fame—fame depends on promotion.
That is why art disappeared with the triumph of egocentrism. That is, the activity called art has been preserved and increased quantitatively, but beauty has gone away. She was offended, no less: she is a jealous lady, accustomed to being first.
A writer cannot write for the sake of truth - he fusses and promotes himself, he has no time. When you see on TV some good old writer, whose voice, broken from the bustle, is hurriedly muttering something, afraid of not being able to make it in time, you become sad.
Where man is at the center of the universe, he is shallow.
Where he is hierarchically subordinate to the Supreme, he has a chance to become great.
Higher education can be, I repeat, different. Stanislavsky’s famous phrase that one must love not oneself in art, but art in oneself, is essentially about this. Submit yourself to Art, live in such a way that you are for art, and not art for you - in this case you have a chance to create great things.
Today, such a position in life feels absurdly provincial. It’s not like saying that, it’s indecent to think like that. "Laughing out loud!" - reprimands anyone who inadvertently thinks so, his internal censor and controller, who monitors the compliance of his owner’s behavior with modern trends and fashionable rules.
Take an “inventory” of the past.
Does it seem like all the years you've lived have been in vain? However, it does not happen that a century is lived without leaving a trace. Behind every person there is a chain of his steps, some of them are kind, good. To remember them means to doubt the theory about the meaninglessness of one’s existence. How to do it:
- create a calm, comfortable environment - dim the lights, turn on quiet, pleasant music, light incense sticks. Make sure that there are no distractions;
- take a comfortable position. It is better to lie down and relax your muscles, but you can also rest while half-sitting;
- get rid of unnecessary thoughts from your head - daily worries, problems, feelings of guilt, jealousy, etc.;
- start remembering your good deeds, saying them out loud, thanking yourself for doing them;
- continue in the same spirit, call whatever comes to mind first, even the most ridiculous at first glance.
You can thank yourself for helping others, taking big, generous steps. And you can be grateful to yourself even for the fact that in childhood you ate good porridge without causing trouble to your parents. Every little thing matters. The first 5-10 actions will be easy to remember, the next ten will be much more difficult. But then the thoughts themselves will begin to pour out, surprising their owner. If so much has been done, then life was not in vain. And with such thoughts, you can continue to bring benefit to the world.
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↑ What and why?
How does a modern man live, free from responsibilities, knowing no debt?
Where does he find support?
What does it draw strength from?
Well, first of all, he must continuously enjoy, please and pamper himself
. They talk about this so much that this very pleasure is gradually turning into some kind of painful duty of a modern person. Of course, this is in the interests of global business, which needs to sell Mont Blancs of all sorts of delightful unnecessary things.
Everything in the life of a modern person should be tireless and fun.
Work and self-realization in work seems something outdated and boring. Today it is customary to take pride in relaxation.
People rest thoughtfully and intensely, intricately and tirelessly.
My husband’s classmate now lives in Canada, where he left about twenty years ago. He works successfully, but from his point of view this is a trifle. Once I had the chance to talk to him on Skype: in enormous, tedious detail, he outlined to me his varied vacation experiences, enchanting travels, fishing here, hunting there...
And that is to say, more and more tart impressions are required. Where can I get them from? Well, go somewhere, well, eat something exotic. But here’s the problem: it gets boring. What could be more intricate? Well sex. Just sex is boring, give me some kind of perversion. And don’t you dare say anything against your word. One can only speak out against homophobes - how dare they question the sacred right and honorable duty of a modern person to enjoy in all available ways without disturbing others?
The more widely the philosophy of egocentrism spreads, the more meaningless the lives of most people become.
Meaningless not from the point of view of some external critic-moralist, but from their own, the people, feeling. Sometimes life becomes so radically meaningless that there is no other way but to jump off the roof.
Meaninglessness and emptiness
Where do such strange feelings of the futility of life come from? It would be one thing if such a condition would not affect anything, but no, it greatly burdens daily life. Getting up in the morning in a painfully tense state gets boring, although it becomes a habit. Suffering becomes a part of you.
And I would be glad to throw off their burden, but brightening up and filling life with joy is becoming more difficult every day. I want to fall asleep, fall into a deep sleep - into a small death of the soul - and wake up reborn, in a different, brighter, improved state.
I re-read a lot of books, the answer seemed to be close, but it was not the same. A million thoughts have been changed, a billion more are to come - my head is buzzing with such madness.
Nowadays, we are increasingly asking similar questions: why does the search for the meaning of life bring suffering? Why does suffering arise from living life itself, despite the fact that outwardly everything is fine? Who knows the complete answer to the question - what is the meaning of life?
↑ Dreams come true and don't come true
The usual objection: well, you can set your own personal goal, achieve it, then life will be filled with meaning. At first glance, yes. But in reality, it won’t be filled. Let's talk a little about this.
Modern philosophy teaches: you can set any goal for yourself and achieve it. You can do anything: become a millionaire, a star, anything you want. There are even seminars and entire courses on how to correctly set and achieve any personal goal; and it really helps a lot of people.
This doesn't seem to be a bad thing.
Many people develop remarkable activity on the way to their intended goal, and then their life seems to be full of meaning.
But the goal has been achieved - so what? Install a new one? What for? Who needs all this? And what is the goal? After all, modern philosophy teaches: any goal is equally respected, choose according to your taste.
Usually a modern person sets a simple goal - to earn money. (Career also comes down to something simple – money). Well, it worked. What next? This is why many businessmen quit their business after raising money.
This is in a favorable case - if the goal is achieved, the dream, so to speak, has come true.
And if not?
If you didn’t set any special goal, but just lived and lived the life of a little person? Then it's even worse.
The very presence of a modern creed about unprecedented possibilities, about the ability of everyone to achieve everything, all these “star factories” in the broadest sense of the word - all this internally sucks out the little person. Confused and wretched, devoid of any internal support, except perhaps following modern trends and brands, he feels his small, simple and ordinary life as lost, worthless
. She is rubbish, an empty trifle. And that’s to say, you’re not even on TV.
The common man cannot express this; for the most part, he considers the cause of his unhappiness to be lack of money. He even calls himself a “beggar,” and then it turns out that he has a wow car and goes to Turkey on vacation—wow, he’s a beggar!
But he just can't express what he's missing. What he lacks is meaning. There is not enough service.
Modern man has fallen into such a trap. If you have achieved your goal, your life is meaningless. If you haven’t achieved it, the same.
Become an eyewitness to beauty.
It is unlikely to be possible to live for the sake of beauty and goodness without seeing real manifestations of these qualities. Before falling into depression and giving up on your existence, it’s better to see it all live. What is meant by beautiful:
- someone's sincere joy;
- manifestations of kindness, reaction to it;
- expression of the parental instinct - both in humans and animals;
- bud opening, flowering, especially in spring;
- natural landscapes untouched by man;
- completion of a masterpiece by a master;
- changes in a person’s appearance and inner world for the better;
- recovery or receiving something long-awaited, etc.
Perhaps the meaning of life is not a point, but a process. And someone will find it precisely in the creation or creation of beauty and goodness. To become part of something good, beautiful, to actively support it, to develop it - what is not a meaningful life?
