My problematic of questioning the meaning of life
As the world is experiencing an era of modernization, people are modernizing in strange ways. Modernized lives also offer people new pursuits. Some are looking for ways to get into space, others to get rich in a short time. Some of us are searching for the meaning of life as if it were a new "trend". As such, there is a new breed of people who consider getting promoted at work as "success", falling in love as "the secret to eternal happiness", and driving a good car as "their dream".
Is the splendor of the world the key to happiness? We all go through life in search. We look for happiness, success, love, luck... At the same time, we constantly complain that we cannot find these things. We think we have found them and regret being wrong. In fact, it is precisely because of this "not finding" that human beings are going through one of the greatest crises in history. The world, despite all its technological and scientific advances and the level of modernity it has reached today, cannot make people happy. Why is this? Because no matter how insatiably attached to objects man is, he is essentially a being driven by instinct. Since no earthly means can bring eternal happiness, we see business people with insane wealth or celebrities loved by everyone ending their lives by suicide.
The first question that comes to mind in this situation is what our motivation is when we are preparing to do something. Because while people look for meaning in all their actions, they also look for the power to do them. But do the things that he finds this power in really give him the meaning he's looking for? I don't think so, because no human being can find real meaning in someone else's interest.
For example, if you dream of buying a car, you will be happy enough to have it. So why do people think that their car is not making them happy enough and they want to upgrade it? Because what is meaningful to them is not the fact that they can get into a car, but how many people say "Wow, that's cool!". And that makes you attach meaning to an object. So, at the end of the day, being the CEO of something or being a beloved celebrity is "not enough" and you commit suicide.
The important thing is not to be happy, but to look happy! Undoubtedly the biggest problem of the people of our age is that every step they take is for others. Beyond the anxiety of "What will others say?", the desire to be admired, to receive attention, to be appreciated are feelings that completely distract people from their main purpose. Because people in the modern world always have to be result-oriented. Having the best of everything is more important than being the best.
At first, achieving your assigned work and experiencing the joys of success may be your "meaningful purpose", but in the end, what you attach meaning to is the bonus you will receive at the end of the year. This completely distracts you from the joy of success and does not make you happy. One day, you may resign from your very successful job saying, "Enough, let them not call me a manager!" That is the day you realize that you are living for others. Because being able to feel the meaning of success should be more valuable than being applauded for your success.
As human beings, we are so hungry for attention that we listen wherever we can get attention. This hunger completely distracts you from your purpose and meaning and focuses you only on the false fulfillment you can achieve. This leads you to a sense of happiness that you will eventually find inadequate. Being a person who is loved by everyone is no longer meaningful because what you have given meaning to has never been love itself... So those who want something for the attention and thought of others in the first place will never be able to see the beauty of that thing.
For someone who only dreams of receiving applause, progress becomes unbearable over time and one day they will surely give up. For someone who finds what they do meaningful, not only the end of the road is beautiful, but the road itself is beautiful.