Posted by raisinb on April 30, 2008, at 13:34:44
My therapist and I had an interesting disagreement yesterday. I was talking about feeling completely pointless, like everything I do has no meaning. She said, "why can't *you* be the point?"
I said that nobody just lives for themselves, that there's little meaning in that, that you have to be connected to something beyond yourself and make a difference, otherwise you don't have much of a purpose. Part of my depression is feeling like there is nothing like that in my life.
She said that once you feel *you* have a point, that you are worth something, then what you do has meaning.
This is a new--strange--idea to me. I started wondering, if I asked twenty people what they live for, I'd get a variety of answers, but would anyone say "I live for myself?" If they do, does that make them healthy? Or shallow?
I guess on the one hand I can see her point. On the other I can't imagine feeling like I alone am worth a life dedicated to me.
Thoughts?
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