The point is: every cell in every life form revolves around living, opposed to giving up.

Allegedly non-sentient life forms exist as nature dictates, while most animals also exist as nature dictates. Humans remain at the high end of the food chain because - although debatable to some :=) - humans can think, parse, develop and apply strategies and create choices for ourselves.

Another aspect is that emotions are chemical reactions. "This too shall pass" may be a tired cliche, but it rings true because it is a universal truth. Change is ineviteable. Fighting change is a waste of energies and more exhausting than figuring out how to catch the next curve ball or ride the next wave better. When you're over your head in emotion and can't wade out, ask for real help from someone who can provide that to you.

You are sure to find much empathy and sympathy among readers and posters here, but empathy and sympathy are not even bandaids.

I'm almost 53. Excised myself from family decades ago and don't even know how many remain alive and don't care because I can't allow myself to waste the time wondering. Starting from scratch. Again. So many jobs I've lost track. Lived in so many places they blur together. Spent the first 48 years in survival mode. Developed learning disabilities, a hearing problem, bones are disintegrating, and my body is falling apart a little more every day. Everything I own is in storage 2,300 miles away and it's unlikely I'll be back any time soon because I'm homeless (here OR there) and staying with an ex-sister-in-law waiting to enter a program for DBT and CBT therapies. My life is on hold and every day is a miserable limbo where little is familiar, transportation is limited, SSDI is barely enough to get by even if I were to eat air... But you know what? Despite all the crud in my life, at least I've managed to keep my conscience clear, not stoop to new lows, not regress much or often, and I've been learning how to improve choices and circumstances so that one day I can say I really did do my best.

Try seeing things differently, because asking yourself "what's the point?" does not really allow you to see what you can achieve if you keep going. Living requires participation. Find some where to participate doing something mutually beneficial for you and those you do interact with. If you end up alone, as I have, then consider it's possible we are where we are supposed to be in life, so that we can get to the next place we're supposed to be. Free will rules! And even when you don't seem to have a good choice or any choice, how you react then proves you can do SOMEthing whether or not it was the best in someone else's opinion and whether or not it is ideal.

Most of life is not ideal. I hear wealthy people complain about something every day, same as anyone else. Money cannot buy healthy emotions or "the best things in life", as I've experienced those to be. As much as I would have enjoyed going to college and being a teacher, it's never going to happen so I have to do something else, don't I? So I do. I just keep moving and doing something. Every day I do something good for myself and someone else, stranger or not. It's a mindfulness thing. And it comes back to me. Perhaps not as often as I would like :.), but the fact that good things come to me at all is appreciated.

There is probably more to complain about with trying to live on a daily basis than not, but complaining or wondering why we're in an unhappy place in life doesn't get much done except perhaps beget more of the same. Those would be two things about which there really is no point to indulge in.