[Jon Liliequist]

Have you INFJs found a steady path in life yet? And if so, has the way there been hard or easy? Are you floating in limbo?
I myself am still looking for some kind of steadyness.

[lemondropG]

The meaning to life could be simply... to live. That's my theory so far. Everything is so subjective there's just no real way to tell.

[subwayrider]

Have you INFJs found a steady path in life yet? And if so, has the way there been hard or easy? Are you floating in limbo?
I myself am still looking for some kind of steadyness.

My starting point was the idea that in order to find meaning in life, you first have to realize that it has no inherent meaning.

From there, you have a clean chalkboard to work with.

Even before that first step, it wasn't easy. I've been thirsting for meaning my whole life, I was just expecting to find it someplace outside of myself. As a teenager, I'd go into crying fits about how cruel and unfair I found the world to be. Those feelings were very Fe in nature, because my life has always been fine. I was never rich, popular or someone from a perfect family, but I did have enough love. No, I saw the world as unjust because of all the other people, most of all, those far away, who were suffering through no fault of their own.

It was probably those same feelings that had me in "limbo" (well put) for the years after I turned eighteen. I guess I knew I wanted to make a difference, if I could, but never knew how. Not having a well-defined path, I did what most people my age end up doing: pleasure-seeking. That was a fairly long, I like to call, detour, but people get stuck there much, much longer. Anyway, it's led me to where I am now.

I've decided to do what I can for the world. I'm in the process of becoming a health-care worker, as of last year. I only wish I'd started sooner :D

As an INFJ, though, finding a meaningful path for my life has probably saved it. I would be bordering on suicide-- maybe dead-- if I didn't have hope for a better something. Our reality leaves a lot to be desired.

[zebraf301]

I've been to hell, navigated my way through it, and navigated my way out of it. Tragedy forced me to map out what was latent. As excruciating as it was, it forced me to fortify my very foundation, and learn about my achilles heels, which are still very vulnerable. There is no light without dark. A steady path, is an illusion, also, not very infj. I'm just happy to be inspired.

[OldManRivers]

At fifty years i found what I had been designed for. Prior to that I tried to please everyone and that damn bear killed me. Meaning in life is found on the last page of the book - and it is not printed until you get there. It is retrospective - and subjective, and not very meaningful to anyone else: it is the little things.
- Point in mind, great biggie - save the environment. How? Pour corn herbicides into the ocean as well as excess nutrients, kill off the plankton that removes CO2 from the air - all to make hooch to burn in gasoline engines. Result? the earth dies. We die. The earth is enherited by anerobic bacteria from an earthworm's gut.

Little thing -almost anything that brings a smile to another.

[ibage]

I don't care if there's a predesignated fate/destiny for me or what it is. It's my life and I'll shape it as I seem fit. I've always wanted to put material out for people like me. I've always felt it was my job to distract people from the harshness of reality. It might sound possibly destructive but I mean no harm in it. Life is tough. I want to give people relief where they can get it. I've always wanted to get into writing and that's the best way I think I can do that. Be it books, screenplays or if the stars align at the right time, video games.

[parsamirm]

I found meaning in my life at an early age. It is difficult for me to explain it in words but the following episode of Batman the Animated Series, called "Perchance to Dream," briefly touches upon it. The path I have chosen is one I follow alone because not many people decide to adopt such a life. Therefore, considering my only reinforcement in life is my will, my path has certainly been a difficult one. I have fallen many times. However, I have always arisen and pushed forward again because, when I pull myself out of it all, I see bliss in my path.

Here is the link to "perchance to Dream" if you have not see it: ????? ????????? / VBOX7

[ohnoezitsjoez]

I have struggled with this. Destiny has always been in my heart, though.

All my life, I have felt like I have carried some greatness inside me. Not so much me that was great, but something inside me. Imagine a wandering adventurer who carries in his backpack a legendary amulet of untold power. And something about destiny has brought it to him, and somehow he is to unlock it but doesn't know how.

That, of course, is a bit on the fantastic side (a bit!) but it illustrates my point. I have never been beset by "I can't do it." The thing that the demons sing to me is along the lines of certain asects in life will not happen, and therefore what point is there to these great things. Their taunts aren't "you can't change," but more like "things won't change no matter what you do." When the catalyst of change feels beyond my power or birthright, then the question in life becomes "why?" If one will never have a family, why build a house that will never be a home? That sort of thing.

To sum up, I have always felt like I was to unlocking these mysteries, but have not yet been able to do so. Sometimes it feels so close. Sometimes it feels like it is on the other side of the moon with Optimus Prime and ALF.

[pineapple_thorns]

I've found my meaning. My mission now is to find someone to share it with.

[Razare]

The purpose of my life is a song, one I've not heard, but chords of worldly music strike upon its ethereal nature. In my dreams, I'm afforded a snippet of chorus or a few measures, as if an ensemble in Heaven were playing but a page of its magnificence. Upon waking, I grasp at the fleeting melody with my heart, trying to recall its brilliance.

I find it in brief moments... moments where I feel divine greatness.