A person has two basic needs: sleep and eat. When they are satisfied, the third arises - the thirst for meaning. If a person loses touch with meaning, then he has an "inner emptiness" - depression. How can you regain interest in life?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression affects 350 million people worldwide. Modern society is called a "consumer society". It creates needs for a person, and then satisfies them and so on in a circle. The human need for a quick snack has led to the emergence of fast food, in the exchange of information - to mobile phones and tablets.
When a person stops in this race of "life", he begins to realize the loss of meaning in his activities. Realizing the loss of genuine interest in life, he gives it a new meaning. This is how the slowfood movement appears. The human mind is overloaded from the information received, and he deliberately restricts himself in access to the Internet and a mobile phone.
The loss of genuine interest in life is graphically illustrated by an example: how many books do a person “consume” a year? How much time does he spend expressing dissatisfaction with politics?
What can help a person to reconnect with meaning? The answer to this question is future orientation. If I believe that tomorrow will bring me new meaning, and in a year I will be better than today, then current affairs do not look so unsolvable. Lack of future orientation leads to three diseases: depression, addiction and aggression.
Openness to the world will also help to overcome the semantic crisis. Expanding your own horizons, finding meaning in everyday activities: morning coffee, the road to work, or dinner with your family. Thus, the meaning of a particular situation that a person faces is the universal meaning of all life.
In the article "Man in Search of the Ultimate Meaning" Viktor Frankl writes: "?"
