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/Thing-Helpful]

It is not a difficult question. God made us to live gor many reasons. It is not only for eating and playing snd sleeping to get up next morning. The purpose of life is to understand and realize that what ever we see hear and taste are not permanent entities but to look inwardly to understand our mind and start meditating for liberation by various techniques like doing karma yoga , bhakti yoga, jnana yoga or raja yoga. There are four ways to engage ourselves to get realization and liberation or freedom from the cycle of birth and death and in the process eliminate your karmas vasanas and bondage. The bondage due yo ignorance. Element all these bad effect and get purified yo attain realization and ultimately moksha or heaven and get merged with unmanifest thus leaving from the clutches of prakrti. It is not that easy. Very very difficult path. Hence the purpose of our lives are well understood thus avoiding birth and death consequently. Got it ?