How to reach happiness and fulfilment

Most people live around eighty years. A healthy human being might live up to one hundred years and if so, even an entire century is a day compared to earth’s immense history. Moreover, he’ll have to co-exist with six billion other people.

That would be why most people, when they reach a certain age, are bound to wonder what their ‘mission’ on earth is, whether they are important to the course of history or just an ordinary prop and how to feel fulfilled.
Some end up accepting that they may not have a mission other than to survive and have the best life they can while the rest of us refuse to and try to leave some meaningful evidence of our existence.


If you want to live a truly fulfilling life you’ll have to figure out which category you fit in so, afterwards, you can live it accordingly:

-Carpe diem. People who fit in this category live hard! They figure that if they’re going to be dead in some years and are insignificant enough not to make an impact on the world(they are probably not religious and do not believe in the afterlife) they might as well make the best of it. This lifestyle is commonly known as Hedonism (hedon (Latin) =pleasure) and in some extreme cases the life of others is dismissed as irrelevant and an obstacle to their happiness. Such hedonists are known as ‘jerks’.

-This type includes people who worry about having a meaningful life and are aware of how insignificant they are. However, they are the ones who choose not to be. They work hard, always give their best and all their choices are made towards achieving success .Eventually they get their life to have an impact on the near or distant future and they finally achieve their goal, significance (this is the reason why most inventors named their creations after themselves per example).Like the previous they also don’t believe in the afterlife and their idea of accomplishment is giving some importance and purpose to their otherwise irrelevant life.

-This last type of people is a combination of the later and unlike them, they have a more altruistic idea of life. They are aware of their triviality as well but they take their life as part of the journey. They’re willing to have a moderately happy life and their idea of fulfillment is contributing to a better world. They realise had other people made the same choice their own life itself would be better! They do it because:they're religious and do it for some sort of reward (more info here) , to aid their offspring or because of self-sacrificing values.

The last ones have taken the first step towards a better world and are actively contributing to reach an utopia!