Don’t worry about it, I’ve made my peace with the fact that I need to also do some stuff that I’m not crazy about in life. I wish you the best too! What a lovely and respectful chat on the internet haha

Why do I have to love something and make it my purpose for forever? It’s fine to find purpose in something for a while, and then changing it up. People do it all the time. One day your purpose is to be successful at work, then maybe you become a parent and all of a sudden your purpose might change.

Idk, probably you’re right and it’s hard for people, it just feels like the easiest thing in the world to me. There is so much great and interesting stuff out there to occupy yourself with, a job always seems like the saddest option to me.

I am always switching between being jealous of people who have a job they love enough to let it define them, and feeling sorry for them that they don’t have anything better to give them purpose. My job gives me no purpose so I’d happily quit. Id probably go back to uni or do something charitable, or both… If you have enough money that you never need to work again and you still don’t manage to find new purpose that’s just tragic.

I had an uncle like that. Inherited about 100 million (would be about 30 million € today) when he was a teenager and never bothered to find a purpose besides spending money. He was depressed, beat my aunt, was an alcoholic and died in his 50s of an easily preventable medical issue. No one besides close family, one friend and the gardener showed up to his funeral. He also spent almost all the money on bad investments and cars, so my cousins didn’t inherit much.