Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now?

"The Danger Of Seeking a Life Purpose" from Sorelle Amore is an interesting video that lightly touches on this subject. Whilst I do not agree with everything mentioned, I do have one word of advice: Find hobbies, find many hobbies, switch constantly, and you might just find one niche you love... and once you find something you love, you'll dig into it like the hacker you are, and then you'll dig deeper, and you'll dream, and you'll envision, and you'll write, and you'll create, and you'll go leaps and bounds beyond what you thought you'd be capable of... and you'll fail, but you'll rebound... and you'll enjoy every single moment of it.

"Pouring your soul into something that can provide meaning to your life" doesn't just happen, your life has no meaning, just like mine doesn't... but you can pour something into your life regardless, and this will be much more satisfactory, knowing we all die, accepting we all die, and still having fun in this short moment of time we are here... and creating for fun, and... living!

In my case, I've started delving into creating a new language, creating a typography for this language, writing a universe where people talk in this language, writing a story that happens in this universe, and further down the line I plan to write poems and music that happens in this universe... and all along I know this is not my life's purpose. This is just a creation... We don't need a purpose per-se, we need something we love, like the love of exploring, the love of creating, or the love of pursuing new dreams.

The last thing you say is that you'd like to pour your soul into something that can provide meaning without rushing into the next side project... I'd argue against that, pursue ALL the problems, ALL the side projects... and then you'll find one thing that really clicks, and at that moment you'll know where to invest your energy.

And maybe, purpose. But purpose is a side-effect.

Alongside effective altruism, if you don't want to work to donate to things learn about ecosystem restoration, and cultural patterns that may leave your kid with problems later on. Instead of mere travel, consider real participation with people that need help.

Volunteer in your community.

Get more ambitious and try to change the world for the better. Look at any person you may admire, may it be Elon, Gates, Bach. Try to achieve what they could.

Or just take the one thing from your interests you think you're best at, and make a website for others to enjoy.

Or take the regular route and study philosophy - it was created to find the meaning of life.

Is your life really what you want?

I'm asking, because what you said sounds like copied from somewhere, without any own toughts.

You also sound a bit narrow minded. Life is more than just getting rich, marry, make, kids and travel. You can make art, draw, musik, sing, dance, sport, research.

Also, you seem rather goal oriented. That isn't bad, but it can lead to problems. While chasing a goal, you don't have it and long for it and when you finally reach it, it's done again.

The way should be the goal. Love what you do and the goals become some nice extras.