“We work jobs, we pay bills, and we’re left asking, is this what life is about? What exactly is life? What exactly am I doing here?”
Introduction
In my recent articles, I’ve often focused on the plight of millennials, particularly in the context of the job market in 2023 and 2024. However, it’s important to clarify that it’s not just millennials who are experiencing these challenges — it’s Americans in general.
As a millennial, I write from the millennial perspective. My work, such as “The Millennial Genocide,” “Why Millennials Hate Adulting,” and “How We’ve Been Set Up to Fail,” provides evidence of this. These pieces explore how education plays a role in our current predicament. But again, it’s not just millennials. It’s a lot of Americans in general.
From the perspective of millennials and Gen Z, we’re left wondering: what is life about? We’ve just weathered a pandemic that has rocked our entire world. We’re at a stage where we feel powerless, faced with two candidates that no one really wants but are forced upon us. We work jobs, we pay bills, and we’re left asking, is this what life is about? What exactly is life? What exactly am I doing here?
These questions have prompted this article and the series that follows.
A Life Worth Living
One phrase that has resonated throughout my life and found its way into many of my previous mottos, slogans, and logos is “a life worth living.” The idea that this phrase resonates is about living a life worth living. I would argue that we all have this goal, but what exactly does a life worth living look like? Is it simply doing as we were told so that when we die, we can say, “I’m ready to die?”
This rhetorical question is a very in-depth inquiry. It could be as simple as “This guy just worked and died.” Or, “This guy left his mark on everything around him. That’s a life worth living.”
Again, we’re still left wondering: what does a life worth living look like?
Ironically, or perhaps synchronistically, I found myself researching the topic of synchronicity the other day. If you subscribe to my substack, you’ll know that I often explore the connection between spirituality and reality. I’ve come to realize that others, most notably Carl Jung, have shared similar ideas. Not only did Jung speak about synchronicity, he also touches on a life worth living in his concept of individuation.
In my quest to understand synchronicity from a scientific and mathematical perspective, I sought a formula for synchronicity. However, at this time, I was unable to find a formula that could definitively prove synchronistic events. For background, I am looking to challenge the idea that causation doesn’t equal correlation, arguing that it fails to account for synchronicity. But that’s a tangent for another day.
During my research, I stumbled upon a site that discussed synchronicity, albeit not to the extent I was hoping for. However, it ended with a concept that struck me as profound: the seven domains of life, or as I like to call them, the seven pillars of life.
In my previous articles, I’ve emphasized that life is about living to the best of our abilities and learning. From a metaphysical perspective, that’s our purpose. I would even argue that we’ve done this before. I accept that history is cyclical, that we reincarnate, and that our consciousness returns to learn time and again. While this may seem anti-Christian, if you look around the world, you might find that this concept resonates with you.
So, the question becomes, what am I supposed to do in this go-around of life? Here is where the seven pillars come into play.
Series Overview
In part one, I will provide an overview of these seven pillars and how focusing on them can lead everyone to live a life worth living, as that’s what life is really about.
In part two, we will explore how various factors take us away from these seven pillars of life, and we need to recognize this because anything that does not support these pillars should be seen as a distraction and discarded.
In part three, we will recognize that anything that takes us away from these pillars of life is a threat to our livelihood. Such threats should be met with righteous anger and justice, but unfortunately, we often fail to do so. We need to address why that is.
And lastly, in part four, we will discuss how we can start each day living a life worth living by consistently focusing on the seven pillars of life.
I hope you all enjoy this series. It’s been a while since I’ve written a series, so I’m looking forward to it. I know I’ve been absent for a while, focusing on other pillars of life, but I’m back and eager to delve into this topic.
So, without further ado, let’s embark on this journey.
Ashe!
Other Series on Unorthodoxy!
If you’re new to Unorthodoxy, you may have missed out on previous series of topics that I’ve written before. If you’re looking for a one stop shop, here are all of the series that I’ve written on:
The Brave New World of 1984: A theoretical discussion on how both authors, Huxley and Orwell, and both books created our world today.
The Spirituality of Flat Earth: An analysis on this topic and why humanity is better suited for the mystical reality that a flat earth promotes.
The Polarizing Complexity of the Kyrie Irving Topic: A discussion into the concept of “jews” and how the term has been weaponized.
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I have researched reincarnation quite extensively and I find a lot of evidence for it, so much that I don't "believe" we reincarnate, I know we reincarnate...or at least some people have reincarnated. Whether or not I have or will, I don't "know", but I believe I have and will again. I think I still have a lot to learn, although I feel like I am further ahead spiritually than some of my friends. My belief is based on my easy understanding and acceptance of new concepts that go against my previous beliefs when evidence is presented; that we live on a plane, not a spherical planet (that is an evidence-based fact, not a belief), that we are all eternal aspects of the Creator, which I now strongly believe, but don't know, and that our purpose here is to learn and grow, not to attain some eternal life in Heaven. As for Christianity and reincarnation, I think there are allusions to reincarnation in the bible, but it's a lot more profitable to tell people that they have to be good, tithe, believe in a specific version of God and Jesus to get to heaven vs. burning in hell for eternity, than to tell them that if they mess this up they can always try again in the next life.
Looking forward to this new series.