Well I think religion helps… ( that is just my opinion).
I often get depressed a lot too as I find life consist of more mean and judgemental people than it does nice people. I am also very sensitive person generally. So I can understand how you feel.
I have “fooled” myself into believing that there is an eternal life after death and it will be a life full of no pain or unhappiness and that there will be justice for all evil people in proportion to the evil things they have done on this earth.
Christianity and the bible teaches us this and I believe it. I think having a belief like this helps me to keep positive in life.
I don’t think life has no purpose. I couldn’t believe that everything just goes black when you die and you are a nothing forever. I think if you believe this then life has no meaning and is probably the reason why a lot of people commit suicide. But that is my assumption. They just want to end it all.
I think you should see life as a journey. Try to do as much good as possible, even when people are mean to you , in the belief that you will be rewarded with an eternal happy life by God when you die. The hope of a life to come is the only thing that keeps me going in life.
I wasn’t always like this but the older I get the more I find thinking like this helps in life . I never read the bible growing up but now as an adult I do. I find that it ( the new testament) does help me to make sense of life.
I think for life to have meaning you have to have some sort of belief system and stick to it, even if you are not religious. You have to learn to think for yourself and not just follow everything that is popular because popular beliefs are always changing. This is not easy but I think in the long run it makes life more meaningful.
I am not forcing you or judging you. That is just my two cents.
I also think it is very important in life to find something you are good at and be the best at it. I think too many of us are slaves to the system set up by society and government. E.g I think our school systems are too geared to rewarding academic success. I think if you live in places like America it is less so though. I think if everyone did what they love to do and were equally rewarded for it there would be less problems in the world. I think society is generally unfair as we are forced to study and do things that add no value to our lives and by the time many of us realise this we are in our thirties or forties. I think this is the cause of the mid-life crises . A realisation that we were living someone else’s dream and not our own.
A lot of so called successful people in the world are successful because they refused to follow they mainstream . They did what they love to do. Sometimes in life you have to follow your heart and take risks and go against the mainstream.
I think we all have a meaningful purpose in life but the mainstream media and the systems we are born into do no foster that. I think gradually people are beginning to see this though.
For example long ago having a degree was enough to get a job but now people are more interested in other things like your personality or what you can actually do because nowadays nearly everyone has a degree.
I think you should stick true to yourself. It is not always easy but I think in the end you will be happier. I think too many of us force ourselves to do stuff we shouldn’t be doing.