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I’m depressed because I don’t know what my meaning in life is.
I’ve been searching for AGES.
I mean, I think my purpose could be having a gift to give to people, like time, effort, empathy, etc. but I don’t know.
I can’t talk to my therapist anytime soon, but I’m in desperate need of someone who is very wise to give me advice on finding my gift.
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It sounds like you yourself are pretty wise. You just said what your gift is. I wish I could say that it's as easy as, "go out and do it." Obviously it isn't.
Start by spreading positivity to everyone you see. People you see that otherwise look sad, or lonely themselves. It comes back to you, I swear.
While you're at it, take a minute to download Stories Blog by Memoirs blog, and keep your eye out for MY blog Anxiety 101.
While you're at it, start blogging yourself. Make the title whatever you want, but use it. When you're depressed, anxious, whatever, start writing.
The best place you're going to be able to write is in a hiking outside landscape. Like a hiking park, or whatever. Your most depressing music on the entire time. And you write. Everything that's upsetting you, or anything negative. Don't write the positive stuff down.
Once you don't think you can write any longer, close the blog, or the notepad, and look around outside. Change your music...
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Volunteer work is a good way to find out some things you like. While most people are working any old job that will give them paychecks so they have something to live on, what they do is rarely something they enjoy. Some of the best jobs are finding what makes you happy. Lets say you are happier in nature. So jobs like working in a ranger station,working outdoors with a landscaping company, helping to clean the environment, repair and build new hiking trails, etc. These may not be glamorous but you will be happiest when you find you can contribute in society and even get paid for doing it. There are people, who saw a need and started a non profit company that helps many other people. I want you to look it up because it is positive stuff and can show you that there are plenty of ways to be of help and give your time to others in a meaningful way. TV celeb Mike Rowe has a facebook show called returning the favor. He has done this for a couple years. The basis is basically ordinary people without any special talent seeing a great need and many accidentally fall into helping out. Women who like to cook were creating meals to take out to first responders for fires and other disasters so that they had a hot cooked meal while working many hours. So someone who liked cooking has other volunteers who also like the same and a team led by Mike go out and see what ways they can help the volunteer organization with any real needs they have and they get them what is needed plus money for the organization. Viewers nominate someone in their area and the show goes to check out and film that company in action. So look up Returning the Favor. Seeing so many people helping people is really uplifting to watch. It could give you idea's of what to look for in your area to do volunteer work in.
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We all have some gift to give though it takes time and maturity to find that gift. As much as we would like to know what that gift may be it cannot be forced. Usually your gift will make itself known in your last years of High School or in your first years of college. Maybe your gift is to be a doctor who may find a cure for some disease. You won’t know this until you start planning for medical school.
For many years my son and I volunteered together at a volunteer rescue squad. One day he asked why we do this. It is a question asked of all of us and one we ask of ourselves. The simple answer is because we can. The truth of the matter is the reason or the why is different for all of us and it becomes apparent on a specific call. One Sunday afternoon I am at home with my wife listening to the scanner when a call goes out. I won’t go in to details other than to say my son’s action in part saved a man’s life. I knew this call would have special meaning to him so I went to the station to wait for his return from the hospital. He walked in looked at me and said “I know.”
That call showed him what his gift is. Today he is a career Paramedic/Fire Fighter with over 20 lives saved. Your gift may become apparent in a similar manner or it will be something you gravitate to. Just don’t rush it for rushing it will surely lead you in the wrong direction.
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