death, including the awareness of its inevitability and what happens afterward.It’s pretty common to question your existence and place in the world after experiencing trauma, loss, religious trauma, crisis of faith, or another life-altering event.Įxistential questioning generally centers on four main topics: Sound familiar? You may be grappling with existential depression. Without answers, without any sure sense of meaning or control over your eventual fate, you might begin to feel hopeless, unmotivated, and unable to stop cycling through the same largely unanswerable questions.
Yet existential angst can also leave you with a sense of despair for the world and your future. In time, you might come to terms with the general impossibility of finding the answers you want and recalibrate your self-concept to your new awareness of existence. These feelings are commonly known as existential dread. Still, it’s human nature to ask - and human nature to feel dissatisfied with uncertainty and unknowing.Īt some point in life, you might begin to consider complex questions:Īs you struggle to find meaning in pain, distress, and injustice, you might experience some apprehension, even fear. Life’s largest questions often have no answers. For instance, before making a knee-jerk reaction and judging someone, instead, you can take a moment and attempt to understand why this person is behaving a certain way, and you then may choose to react to the situation in a healthier, constructive way and demonstrate some compassionate.Share on Pinterest Yadira G. But with these destiny points firmly implanted in our soul makeup, we also have "free will" and can choose how we will live through the situation at hand. So how can you be reassured that you have made the right choice, especially when it affects a major aspect of your life? Well, I am a firm believer that we as souls have various destiny points we must live through in this lifetime, which we have designed prior to our incarnation before we ventured back into this three-dimensional world. Depending upon the type of choice it is (such as a lifestyle decision), if we don't have a multitude of possible options, we seem to become anxious and confused. I say perhaps you cannot control the world, but you can certainly control how you choose to react to various situations and how you will handle them. Just think of how many events in history would never have occurred if someone did not make the choice to do something different, unknown, unproved or un-experienced? How many relationships would never have been realized without making a particular choice? Many would say that we have no control over our world or what happens to us. Because there are so many factors involved with our decision-making and with its unknown result, many of us hesitate to even make a choice, thinking it would be safer and that we'd be better off where we are instead of delving into the unknown. The choices usually consist of a multitude of possibilities and, whether real or imagined, we must recognize that in some way the decision will change our life forever.
#Questioning life choices series#
I believe life is just a series of decisions we make, and depending on our choice, must live with the result of that decision. Every day people all over the world share a several universal experiences, and the most common one of these is choices.
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