Forum user: What motivates you guys to live? … I must be doing it wrong, not figuring out why everyone is so adamant about living. …
Forum user
Justin: This is a complicated issue. I’ll tell you what I think I’ve learned and you can try to extrapolate from there.
The short answer is that you need to cultivate curiosity in your life. The meaning of life is to explore your interests. Emphasis on exploring. There’s no way to fail at life, really, other than to neglect to explore, and you should take comfort in that.
I’m not a religious person but you should note that everything I just said should overlap with the idea that you were made in the image of God. I can’t leave it unsaid that there is something about mental health where we must adopt an attitude that the universe loves us and everything is going to be OK.
It is important to understand this feeling. This is a gateway for us to pass through (serotonin?) that makes us feel safe and that we are adequate, and beyond that are other doors we can unlock, but I believe this is the first and most important one.