@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN
Do we have to change things?
Do we have to make an impact?
Maybe it's different for other people, but I don't have much interest in making an impact or much of a contribution to society.
I want to contribute because it would probably benefit me, but other than that, I don't feel like it matters much to me.
I think it's enough to just have lived. Perhaps that sounds kinda cliché or lame, but it's not like we exist for some greater purpose, or at least that's what I think. The sole purpose of your existence isn't to contribute to society. The chances of
you existing are practically 0- something like 1 in 10^2,685,000. That's a pretty remarkable coincidence, right? Think of all the things that had to happen in the past to result in the person that you are now. Not just in your life, but before you were alive, to your ancestors and to the world before that. It's pretty hard to imagine. You're a pretty cool existence, y'know, even if there is a lot of other people.
There's a lotta things I don't like about myself, and things aren't always easy, but in the end, I'm glad that I'm alive and experiencing life. Even if I'm wasting my life away, or having a breakdown, I'm still living. If I am living, then I have a capacity for change. I can get better. I'm glad that I am me. I'm just glad that I'm able to live in this world to see, smell, and hear things.
I'm fine with being forgotten, I'm fine with no one remembering me. We're all forgotten somewhere down the line anyway. It doesn't matter if to others in the future I never existed, I existed to myself. I was alive, and I lived my own life. You can decide your own worth, your own life purpose, and what you want to do with yourself. If you want to contribute to society, you can try to do that. If you want to please others and make someone proud, that's okay too. Do what you want (hopefully within moral reason). If you don't have much of an idea (I don't really), what's wrong with just living? Do we have to have a profound purpose to enjoy life? It's okay if your current worth isn't what you want it to be, it's fine if you're not wholly confident in yourself, it's fine if you're never achieve the happiness and goals that you dream of, and it's fine if you're never completely what you want to be. No one will be able to achieve everything within a lifetime.
I can't remember where I heard this analogy, but let's say that life is a video game. If you could just go straight to the end of the game, meet the boss, and defeat it straight away, although it might feel pretty great for a little bit, but it wouldn't be as fun as the whole journey of the game, right? It wouldn't feel as meaningful or rewarding as if you had actually experienced the story and worked to level up. The end goal isn't what the game is about. It's about the journey.
But even if you toll and play through a game in its entirety, after you've finished it, what do you do? Once you reach a goal, you make new ones. You play new games, or you go do something else. You will never be satisfied with your life after you achieve the goal you have in mind. You'll always want something more. You won't be fulfilled forever after you achieve something. So, if that's the case, why not enjoy the journey?
Having existed being sometimes happy, and sometimes sad, is better than not ever having existing at all.
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