{"id":1038,"date":"2019-05-10T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2024-11-26T02:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:43:42","slug":"purpose-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/2019\/05\/10\/purpose-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1039\" src=\"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rs-200856-SPC-IRRATIONAL-MAN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rs-200856-SPC-IRRATIONAL-MAN-1024x683@2x.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rs-200856-SPC-IRRATIONAL-MAN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rs-200856-SPC-IRRATIONAL-MAN-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rs-200856-SPC-IRRATIONAL-MAN-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rs-200856-SPC-IRRATIONAL-MAN-300x200@2x.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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)<\/p>\n<p>I saw this movie a few years ago. The plot resurfaced in my thoughts recently. What\u2019s 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\u2019t have a plan to commit murder, but I\u2019d love to see what my motivation would be if I become excited about life and work again all of a sudden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve finally got an SSL certificate for this site. No more browser BS saying this site is not secure. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/2019\/05\/10\/purpose-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzyme.com\/theone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}