Question
I feel that I have wasted my talents. I do nothing to move forward. I cannot find any meaning in life. I feel lost in this world. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong place and time. I am 23 years old, and I think the only problem in my life is me.
Anonymous
Answer from Master Kosen
Hello:
You are feeling a little depressed. It happens to everyone, and it is not entirely negative, because sometimes you have to go down deep before you can rise again. Today’s world is what it is: it has good things and bad things. We know nothing about the world of the past; it is only stories and imagination. So what do we have left? The here and now, without confusion. And I assure you that it is worth living. Forget yourself and enter the Way of Zen with strength.
Best regards.
Kosen