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Anyone else feel that their direction in life is more related to being what "they're supposed to do" rather than any conviction or desire to pursue it? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title mostly.

I'm doing fine right now, had an argument with my brother but overall I got my path forward ironed out, but I can't shake the feeling that all of what I do is just some pathological need to stumble forward into what I'm supposed to do but rather than actually being a meaningful calling or direction.

Maybe I'm just depressed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a conviction you feel you can't follow? Or do you generally feel like there isn't a conviction you feel called to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, I thought I did want to do teaching and that's what my degree was in but I found myself giving advice and direction that I didn't believe in and that kind of left me feeling a bit ill. (Just did student teaching)

I guess I do believe it intellectually but emotionally it feels like ash. I guess that could be depression or something? I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Honestly that sounds like alienation too, it's natural to feel a bit detached in that situation. We all gotta go through these things. meow-hug