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Clarity - Day 17

3/3/2026

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​All my life I’ve been looking for someone to tell me “why.” 
Why am I here? 
Whose hand is guiding me? I’m not here alone. I’ve never been here alone.
Why can’t I meet you? 
What is my purpose?
 
JUST TELL ME already. I’m 66. 
Obviously, I haven’t been able to figure it out on my own. 
 
Some would fill this hole with religion. I tried that. Did it for years. 
Came out with the same questions I went in with. 
 
All I’m asking for is a little help. A few answers. 
Surely there’s somebody out there who can do more than point me in a particular direction?
 
It’s time.
I surrender.
Show me.
5 Comments
Mary Allmon Epstein
3/4/2026 08:07:32 am

The meaning of life -

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Dorothy Archer
3/4/2026 08:21:28 am

Enjoy the ride!

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Kelly McCord
3/4/2026 09:00:58 am

I feel this! ‘Deconstructed’ Christian in the last 5 years, but still feeling like there is something more. I am fine with just ending after I die, (I thought this idea would be more upsetting to me!), but the soul/spirit seems too powerful and mysterious to turn into nothing. And the whole of nature, including the human body, seems too miraculous to just be random.

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Robbin Marcus
3/4/2026 12:06:38 pm

I think you're really onto something here, Kelly. For me, it's the oneness I can feel out in nature, that connectedness, that keeps me sure you are correct about the soul living on in some way. Even as tiny dust particles out in space!

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Dave Marcus
3/4/2026 08:09:45 pm

I think I am here only to be kind to people, to resist evil, to be peace, to create a little beauty. Yes, I do fail pretty darn frequently, as you know.

My third phase of retirement began with the realization that the idea of need to have a purpose in life is just some sort of con perpetuated by Calvinists, who developed the “Protestant work ethic,” where diligent labor is seen as a moral duty.

Bah, nonsense, I say. Leave the world a better place in many small ways, and you will do better and be better than most people with a purpose. More relaxed and happy, too, IMO.

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