How do you find meaning in life when your mind over simplifies everything and concludes that there is no point to existence?

My heart skipped a beat when I read this :s I lay in bed most nights, trying to sleep, thinking about things and then I start to over think. Say, for example, I'm thinking about what it will be like later this year when I'll be starting college. I'm really excited about college and am determined to get it right and do well this time because I've messed it up twice already.

I'll then get a panicky feeling and think about all the things that could possibly go wrong and ruin it for me again this time. I start to think about what I am compared to the world, or the universe. About how small this universe could be compered to whatever's outside it.

How close the Sun is to us, how big it looks in the sky compared to other stars. Stars that are already dead by the time I look at them. Then I feel pointless :s The main thing that keeps me on the right track is my family - they expect so much of me and love me so much that I can't bear to disappoint them any more than I already have.

I'm a schizoid, so I've had some issue with this. To me, the point of life is the pursuit of happiness, and you just need to find what that is for you. Its easy to get depressed if your doing repetitive, boring tasks.

I have this theory that the brain is a muscle and it needs exercise. If its not getting the exercise it needs from exterior things, it will turn inward. Then you start thinking about everything way to much.

There is a point to everyone's existence, the journey of life is the road to finding it. Don't worry so much about the destination but all the traveling along the way is what will define your life. The meaning in my life is my children but realizing that we're only given a certain amount of time here, it is extremely important to make the best of each day.

For each person that will probably mean something different but spending time over analyzing or worrying about how to please others in my mind is a waste of your valuable time. You should be considerate to everyone and let the people who love you know how much you love and appreciate them. Then go ahead and enjoy the ride, when you lose someone close to you who was way too young to die it makes you appreciate every moment you were lucky enough to be given.

Life is short don't waste it, live it instead of analyzing it, and always do something you never thought you would do just to say you did it. Hope this helps.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.