Life is boring in general and Ecclesiastes

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[Emmy]

Dear DoubtingRachel, you had quite a few helpful replies, and I know what you are going through. When I was about 4o, I felt that every day seemed just like the day before, My children had left home and I started to search for something worthwhile. Although I grew up without Religion of any sort, I believed in God, but I was rather afraid of Him. I was lucky, Rachel, and Jesus found me, and taught me to love and be friendly and helpful to people around me. I went to church regularly, and in time joined the Salvation Army. Life is certainly not boring anymore, and my days are filled with Love, Joy and Peace. Every day I am faced with new challenges, meet interesting and kind people, and also have grown quite a few years older, in the mean time. I am never bored and never withou t my Helper and Saviour, Jesus, my Friend and Teacher. I say this humbly and lovingly, DoubtingRachel, and my advice, " what can you lose? and the rewards are deeply satisfying. Sincere greetings from Emmy, sister in Christ.

 

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I don't think it's intelligible to speak of life in generalities; the word "life" inherently carries with it the subject that utters it: your life. A pointless point. Anyways, it depends on where you look, and essentially it depends on your existential possibilities, for possibility is what opens the ground up for freedom, the engagement with freedom is where your happiness lies.

I deal with depression on occasion, and I find that the reason I am depressed is because I lack transcending possibilities -- things to do that are worth doing, in short; or that I'm supressing something that I should be doing, that I know is in my best interest, and the depression is the dissonance that stems from it.

There are a lot of good books out there, good ideas to write down, stories to create, people to meet, coffee to get addicted to, people to fall in love with (erotically and non-erotically), an infinite number of ways to save the world -- ya just gotta be obstinate in your looking. Sometimes breaking ourselves away from our usual routines can be hard to do, but we have to try anything that isn't against our conscience, for you never know where something interesting lies. Try reading Nietzsche, or finding someone to share poetry with, or -- who knows.