I’m 23 and the monotony of life is really starting to get to me. I always pictured life as this inherently meaningful thing that you’ll realize as you get older. But I’m starting to realize that you kind of have to give it your own meaning. While it sounds cool in theory, it fills me with dread. It makes me question whether there really is any purpose to all this bullshit or if people can just delude themselves into thinking there is.

I tend to have really long depressive episodes that can last years and be pretty severe, so it’s just hard for me to see the good things in life. It just seems like everyone is scraping by and living just because they have to. It’s getting harder and harder to convince myself to keep going. Anything you all do that helps motivate you to keep getting better?