More of a symptom of the unexamined appropriation of the typical societal norm. Why would anyone in their right mind just adopt beliefs without challenging them for their utility, health, effectiveness.
When you're sitting there deciding on your purpose in life, are you adopting one that is full of shit? As if your purpose was to mate with a handsome man, have a beautiful, normal kid, make a million dollars a year, own lots of things and die? Of course not, shut the fuck up. Who wants to live in that world where that's some kind of goal? Those things happen to people, but what to what end?
Get out of your head, sit your ass down and start from the basics. Your purpose in life is to discover your talents and joys (both), go ahead and develop and engage in them in a way that offers the people of the world, or the world itself, your service.
There is nothing more beautiful and attractive than someone immersed in their natural abilities, doing their best to help out the world. People want to be around that and work with that and celebrate that. Along the way, you'll be running into like-minded people, get to know and love them, and get to bask in the coolness that those relationships bring. You can hang, do some things you all like to do, and then if something romantic happens, great! And if it doesn't, you're having an amazing time with awesome people living the dream. SHUT UP about not having the thing that everybody ELSE wants or says you should want. Fuck that noise. You define your own life and world on your terms and stop victimizing yourselves in lives of stressful depression.
