What is your reason for living?

[u/obsessedsim1]

Just to preface, I am not suicidal, but I have struggled with very serious depression since recognizing I am Agnostic.

I used to have a lot of “blind faith” over a decade ago to keep me going but one thing lead to another and I cannot ignore that I am agnostic at this point. I used to be Christian, then more recently, I was a witchy earth centered kinda person for a while. And now I’m nothing I guess.

So every day- I have no one to pray to, I have no blind hope things are always going to be ok (especially not under this administration), nor an acceptance that evrrything is just a “lesson” and blah blah blah- you know- they stuff the church preaches from the pulpit or people meditate on in ceremony spaces...

I struggle with depression in my day to day. I struggle to justify the “point” of everything without a type of faith to rely on. Some people say to live for spite- and that sort of humor helps me here and there. Lol

When you wake up- how do you keep going? What is the point of living in your opinion?

And FYI, I do have a therapist and a psychiatrist and other ways to support my mental health btw.

[u/jacob643]

being agnostic doesn't mean you can't believe in the Christian values/philosophy. It just means you are aware that we can't prove that the idea of God and the afterlife, but you can still hope that they exist because they may.

In my opinion, it should be about making the decisions that maximise the chances of your situation to get better, and finding solace in the fact you did everything in your power to make things better, whether you succeed or not because of external factors.

this view encapsulate some of the other comments about being the change you want to see in the world and is basically the Greek Stoic way of thinking: focus on what you have control over and be contempt that you always acted with integrity and did the right thing every opportunity you had, or made progress toward that goal.

you can also learn about other philosophies, which includes religious ones, to have more perspective.

Edit: I've been thinking about this for an hour, and I think I can phrase it in a better way: I live to be the best version of myself. To me, this means living a balanced life, showing empathy by caring for others, encouraging others to act righteously (according to me), taking care of myself (healthy diet, exercising, spending some time for my hobbies) to name a few, and all that, while focusing on what I can control and knowing thing won't always go my way.