Futility

We lose track of what we were trying to achieve, and we try to achieve things we were never connected to in the first place. Many people feel their jobs or careers are futile. We need to feel like we matter, and you find that by engaging life. Not by being told what life is.

Futility is a distinctly human thing, but it isn’t just a burden. This weakness comes because we have another potential strength. We can choose on the level of purpose. So any little notion you have, it’s not pointless. Any subtle feeling you experience, it’s not invalid. Treat it as natural and a real part of the world, and you will not go insane.

“When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.” Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

“It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility” Joseph Conrad (English novelist, 1857-1924)