What do you think is the purpose of life?
I’m a Data Engineer in a reputed firm, I'm pretty comfortable with how much I earn, and I’m pretty happy with my friend's circle, and above all, I recently got promoted! This is all I wanted for 2 years now, yet I feel unfulfilled.
When I spoke to a couple of my friends about this, they said they feel the same way after reaching the goals they set for themselves. The dissatisfaction before success is something everyone understands, but the dissatisfaction after success is an unexplored territory for most of us. We don’t talk about it often as we have “nothing to complain about”.
When I was contemplating about the same, I started questioning the whole purpose of my existence. For most of my life, like many before me, I was taught to chase desires, milestones, people and principles. I was taught happiness lies in these, but the more I chase, the more empty all of them feel.
I’m not writing this to answer the question I just asked, I'm writing to know your answer to it. What do you think is the purpose of life?
I'm not doing this to increase engagement, this is out of real curiosity. So please comment below about what you think is the purpose of life, I’ll read all the comments and maybe make my next post about it.
We might never really arrive at a conclusion, but something tells me asking this question over and over again will make our lives purposeful.
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