Well, the reason I'm replying is that I also adhere to absurdism. I find your case remarkable because usually one is left with two choices:
1. Suicide
2. Finding a purpose for oneself.
A false dichotomy. There are other "choices".
Third choice: live. Just live.
Fourth choice: just be in the moment (the buddhist concept). etc.
"Finding a purpose" implies (a) thinking you need one, and (2) thinking it is important to the grand scheme of things. Faulty logic. Most "life" doesn't think, it just {is}. In fact if we look at {the general purpose of life} as defined by most life forms - with brains or not - we can conclude that the purpose of life is life: that is the product of life, and what is accomplished by high levels of diversity sufficient to ensure that {some kind of life} survives whatever accidental disasters occur in the course of time.
My personal opinion is that many people lead lives with no real self defined purpose, and just go from day to day doing the same thing over and over, letting chance make their decisions. This is true whether one thinks one is religious or atheist.
Thinking you have a purpose does not give you one - you have to act on it.
Altruism is the greatest of purposes IMO ...
Altruism is important to humans because humans are social creatures - it is a necessary form of behavior for a group interacting species that some do things for others whether they get immediate reward, delayed reward or no reward.
robinrohan, msg 1 writes:
We are products of a mindless universe. We are here, hanging about, trying to figure out what it's all about - and then we come to understand that it's not about anything at all.
The (observed?) "purpose" of the universe is to {be}. It doesn't need a mind to do that.
Everyone confronts their reality differently.
Enjoy.
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