From the desk of Harsh Strongman Subj: How to find your purpose in life (Discover your purpose and live a meaning ful life)
I remember watching this movie called Fight Club many years ago, and I came across this:
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
And if you think about it – it makes sense.
Everything about living in the modern world is easy.
I have access to the best food, the best entertainment, the best of the best of everything that my ancestors a few generations ago couldn’t even dream of.
There was a time when if you didn’t work hard at whatever you did – you’d starve.
You could actually die of starvation.
Modern day, that’s as good as impossible.
If you’re reading this article, it shows that 1) You can understand English (i.e., you are somewhat educated) and 2) You have access to the internet.
This means that no matter how bad your life can get – it’s virtually impossible that it’d get so bad that you’d face a real threat of death by starvation.
Originally, the purpose of life was survival.
Survival and Procreation.
You’d work to feed yourself and your family, have children, and then work some more to feed your children.
People would have upwards of 10 children and spend most of their non-work life raising them.
A fraction of the children would survive long enough to become adults, and the rest would succumb to disease or malnutrition.
Life was hard. People found spiritual solace in gods and religion.