{"id":316071,"date":"2021-06-07T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=316071"},"modified":"2021-06-07T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:51:41","slug":"children-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/children-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Children & Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thought —<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps much of the existential dread, ennui, and maybe even depression is because many moderns aren’t having kids anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For myself at least, I realized — when you’re raising a kid, you’re too busy to even have the free time and effort to ‘think’ about your purpose in life, or other existential things. Perhaps (childless) philosophers suffered from this — too much time on your hands without a simple purpose (raising a child, keeping it from starving to death, etc). Having a kid is the most straight-forward way to have a strong sense of purpose, meaning, and feedback in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Instant feedback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The great thing about raising a kid (Seneca<\/a>) is that the feedback is instantaneous, and never gets boring. Difficult? Yes. Boring? Never.<\/p>\n\n\n\n