Friend - 3am conversation - purpose

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No yeah no I completely understand what you're saying and I agree I'm telling you that I agree and it's okay you know like I get that like absolutely yeah no that is good that is very good but on the other hand this is what I think okay I think there is a huge problem within us as humans and it's rooted in the fact that we all think we need to serve a higher purpose whether that be success whether it be religion whether it be just a purpose you know and I feel that we've been tricked we've been completely tricked and completely lied to our entire lives in thinking that we have a responsibility to have a higher purpose now let me elaborate let me elaborate okay I truly believe that there is honestly no other job or purpose in your life other than living like it's the bare minimum but what does that mean what does living mean I mean what I'm trying to say by this is that this weight on our shoulders that we have from our parents from our friends from society saying that you must accomplish something is the only way to get any sort of validation to your existence and I think that's cruel and I think that's wrong you know that's what I'm trying to say that's what I'm trying to explain I truly believe that it is cruel you must get a high-paying job you must graduate from University you must get promoted you must have the house you must have the car you must have money you must have a profession you must be successful whatever that may be if you're an artist you must be sold out you must be booking commissions you must be booking showing like everything is about success not success of the mind or the spirit mind you okay it's success by what society has painted by what it has decided is appropriate and is called success as we know it and that's what our parents were raised with and that's what they pass on to us in order to be successful you have to do these things in order to feel happy you must have these things and you must do these things and I truly believe that all of this is wrong and it is cruel because I think the only real job is to live you're living on borrowed time okay all these pressures they basically take away your will to live they do they do to me at least like all the time and I've had to learn to understand that my only purpose is to live and that every day is full of happiness it is full of the fact that I get to get out of bed go get coffee that I love I get to sit in my couch I get to look at my phone I had to turn on the TV I get to watch whatever I want these little things that on the surface they seem so silly they seem inadequate to being successful but I am I'm happy then if you tell this to somebody and you say well you're not a doctor what have you contributed to society what have you done and I say well I really haven't I've contributed to myself I haven't worried about what other people think which by the way that is the main problem isn't it we all worry about everybody else and care so much about things that don't actually matter except ourselves we numb ourselves with things in excess with television with games with a sport with fitness with whatever it is we get attached to something and we don't really understand that this is just what's out here isn't real what's real is what's inside what's here up here what's in your soul what's in your spirit what makes you you you know and now we're becoming a little bit I am becoming a little bit more philosophical now and I had I apologize for that because I've just been drinking a bit and it's just gone to that but the thing that I'm just trying to say is purpose the perverse way that it is portrayed and the fact that you need to achieve these things this success that people talk about when reality it's none of that you could be the poorest person on the planet and if your will and your understanding was correct and understood by yourself then you would you could be the happiest person that has ever lived by being poor it isn't about things it isn't about who you know it's it's about you it's about investing yourself and understanding these things that is the way that it is and yet we try to deny that because nobody teaches us that do they everybody's caught in the same cycle our parents our grandparents our children most people don't even know what's going on they don't realize that the purpose the only purpose is to live that is our only true purpose and like I mentioned before we are on borrowed time the fact that you're born is chance you could have just as easily not been but you were that just means you had an opportunity so now you either can worry about all these things that don't matter or take the journey for what it is life and live and that's it yeah I always get I talk too much don't I when I'm drinking and I don't know I just think you you need to hear this too I just wanted it just seemed like I had to say this because I've been going crazy understanding this and realizing that that's what I believe in why I truly understand and I just wanted to see if someone else agreed or understood me at least also I I truly find it comforting and I hoped that someone else might find it that way but thank you for listening and for being here for being my friend you're the best friend anyways what else you want to talk about I promise I won't interrupt you it can be about anything go ahead what do you want to say.