Are we all living in denial? We face a problem, take anti-depressants, then we come back to it again and again? -

Aren t we living in denial? It seems pointless that when one is overwhelmed by something, they resort to anti-depressants or sometimes go search the web about it. Take for example, Joanne, a thirteen year old girl who s suffering from an existential crisis. Life has no purpose to her. She sees it like this - you re born, you go to school, get a degree, get a job, go to work and earn money, retire with sufficient funds and die.Then, she resorts to anti-depressants and calls a hot line and explains her condition. The person on the line agrees with her but tells her that she shouldn t do anything silly and convinces her that life has a purpose - by finding a goal in life. As you can see, the person talking to her is manipulating her mind - trying to tell her that life=horrible is life=good . Mind manipulation... This woman thinks it through and gives it a shot, she focuses on getting a goal and achieving it, yet forgetting what life is actually. She comes to a point where she s down, and starts to think - what is the purpose of life, we live then we die, and we reproduce to carry on this same cycle over and over again. So my point is, aren t we living in denial, when we come to topics like this. My school counselor asked me to look at the bright side of life, and change my perspective, of course, we only look at one side and we get relieved, but, we forget the other. So aren t humans just living life in denial?|::::|Hi, i used to share your point of view, maybe i still do but i biried so i dont think about it. But, heres what i can tell you, having been through all the horror that life has put in my path, i have found to be true what we have all heard before. We live for the moments, the times of joy, the times of sadness, to feel emotions, to grow as a person. As for the rest, well, there aint nothing you can do about it, it is what it is. So, since you somehow got on this boat we call life, you might as well take a few snapshots of the things that you find pleasing along the way. Because as you so correctly stated, at the end we die.|::::|QUITE POSSIBLY. But while I am here I plan to give it a good shot. I don t know for sure when I can from and I certainly don t have a good grasp on where I am going next. Assuming there is a next. But why not enjoy what I have for the moment. Having said all that, I do know where I came from because I have memories of past lives and I am excited to what adventure will collide with me in my next level. I do have a believe that how I live on this material plane will have an impact on my next level. So I am trying to do all I can to gather as much good karma as I can....while I can.|::::|not all, it sounds like you are... what you are denying is that there IS a purpose, what you are denying is that there IS a great deal of good in life. Yes, we all know the downside, the media shoves it in our faces on an hourly basis. But those of us that have looked beyond the misery and beyond our own selfish and base thinking have found a great deal to love about life. No one denies that there is sadness and strife in this life, but far too many people focus only on that, they focus on quot;goalsquot; instead of the journey itself. And the journey is exciting, and as joyous as you want to make it.|::::|yeah, we are all living in denial of our true purpose. We become so focused on ourselves that we forget our greater purpose. People have learned to love so that they can receive love. Even that is a selfish motive, no? We give so that we will receive. We find submission or service to be a degrading or dirty words. Drugs will help us forget, but they don t change our hearts or attitudes. I ve found that the only time I find peace and purpose in my life is when I am giving peace and purpose to other people. In other words, I receive so that I can give again. We are to be conduits through which life and blessings flow to others. We are not to be bucket that merely collect life and blessings (or worse, we are not to be vacuums that suck the life and blessings from others). The sufferings of others can give us perspective on our own blessings. And since we all have different strengths and weaknesses, seeing another person s suffering allows us the opportunity to meet their need from our own abundance. Likewise, when we experience our own funk, the love of others can help us to meet our own needs. That s the way it s supposed to work, but that relies on us getting the focus off our our own self and putting it on the needs and desires of other people. We can wait for that to happen, or we can be the agent of change to make it happen for others. The two commandments of Jesus boil it all down and will give us all the purpose that we could ever need or want. 1) Love God more than anything, and 2) Love others like we love ourselves. Then you won t have to live in denial anymore.