College professor Abe Lucas was experiencing an existential crisis. He was depressed, saw no meaning in life, and drank excessively. One day, he overheard a conversation: a woman said she would lose her children in a custody battle because of an unethical judge in family court. Troubled by the injustice, Lucas decided to do the woman a favour by killing the judge. As he began planning for this murder, he got excited about this plan, and pretty much everything else in life. He rediscovered his long-lost motivation. (Irrational Man, movie, 2015)

I saw this movie a few years ago. The plot resurfaced in my thoughts recently. What’s interesting is that the man found new meanings in life from a random cause. What he did was nothing personal. He just perceived it as a selfless good deed. I don’t have a plan to commit murder, but I’d love to see what my motivation would be if I become excited about life and work again all of a sudden.

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