9 Reasons Why You Don’t Know What You Want — and How to Know What You Want
Feeling confused, and without direction in life? Here is why
Given that you are surely going to die, how could you give yourself the gift of a well-spent life?
That’s a big question. Add to it “who am I?”, “why am I here?” and “what is my purpose?”, and we got ourselves walking in vulcanic quicksand.
We, who were granted the freedom to choose for ourselves, are lost amidst infinite possibilities. All we want is simple, straight, concrete, practical answers to the questions above — yet, that is the one thing we don’t get. No wonder confusion seems to be the natural state of my millennial generation.
Freedom comes with the burden of having to choose for ourselves — how do we go around that? This is a crucial point in the philosophy of Nitzsche. At first exuberant about criticizing the power of religion in dictating our lives and our need to break free from it, already in the 19th century, the philosopher realized what that meant in practice: emptiness. The burden of opportunity.
If we do not have a clear moral code, an external compass, then there’s freedom, but what will we do with it? Are we even prepared for it? For many, this means to somehow negate freedom and keep themselves…
