/n/ - NEET

Your life should be about you. And your main source of happiness should also be yourself. It doesn't mean you should be selfish and completely ignore needs and opinions of others, as you can learn from them and doing good things to other people can make you happy. The problem lies with you expecting other people to actively give you things - the less you depend on others for happiness and meaning the more calm and fulfilling your life will be. Create your own happiness.

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Besides, monks and other isolated holy men seemed to have found meaning within themselfs.

I know how you feel tough, we all seek acknowledgment in others, but in first line you have to like yourself.