What Drives a Teenager to Question the Purpose of Life?

[verty]

"By distancing yourself, or detaching yourself from situations helps to clear the mind and view things as they are."

Don't get blindsided by this mumbo-jumbo. I don't like phrases like 'clear your mind' and 'detaching yourself'. It just doesn't sound like something you would want to do. You want to live life, not be a monk.

Just think about things, ask questions, and observe. And finally, don't jump to conclusions.

 

[cassiopeiae]

What distancing yourself does do is allow you to see the situation for what it is. That's it. It clears your head so that you can do this without having pressures from yourself or your peers. This doesn't mean don't go to parties or don't hang out with your friends, it just means pay attention to how you are responding to these situations and how others respond in these situations...this way you can figure it all out for yourself without your feelings or your peers opinions getting in the way. Detaching yourself only means to think objectively about something in this case...not closing yourself off. And as someone else said...it has nothing to do with being a Buddhist, I only commented that it is similar thought and philosophy...

 

[BlackJack]

... got any links on that subject which are a bit further explained ?

I do agree with vertigo, it is a bit "monky" ^^

 

[TENYEARS]

It is american indian, african, christian, asian, or any ic or ism you would like to make it. It came to me in a vision one night, it saved my life that morning and maybe the lives of a few people I did not even know. I sometimes exagerate on the size of the fish, here I can do it no justice. That is all I will say.

If you do not turn, then you will suffer the repurcussions of your actions when you are not aware of them. Blackjack, do you want to be cool? Do you know what real cool is? It is the very aspect of what I speak. You want girls, you manifest yourself in this way they will come to you. You want self respect, you will have your own and with that you will have the respect of others. You want the meaning of life, you will live it.

 

[Stockman]

The real purpose of life is to create more life, but if that would be my only purpose I would running around looking for chicks all the time therefore we are creating interests in something like music or movies.