Is it normal to think of life as pointless?

I'll try to be positive, but I know I'm not fooling myself in the long run. Thinking positive only helps temporarily. Then something happens and you realize you've been fooling yourself into believe it was helping.

I do feel this way. Although I search for a purpose, and i search for things to give me, and my life a meaning. All I can say is, negative thinking only makes this feeling worsen. A positive way of doing things, is looking at the smaller picture and instead of instantly saying there is no point, say, 'doing this will...' And fill in the blank as of why you should do something positive. I hope this made sense. It makes sense in my head, i just feel my words aren't doing it..
Be positive about everything you do whether its good or bad. We shall prevail.

One thing that helps is to help others. It forces me to break out of my thoughts of pointlessness and gives me the purpose of improving the lives of others. My wife and I do foster care and love it but we've done everything from help with food drives to shovel the snow out of our elderly neighbors' driveways. There is plenty of need out there waiting for someone to help.

Well, from a strictly scientific standpoint the only real "purpose" of life is to continue itself. The human, as a form of life, is loaded with stuff that makes us survive and procreate.

As to why? Well, people have deliberated over and debated that since the dawn of mankind. You're perfectly at liberty to form your own opinion. If you choose to believe there's no real point, then it's your prerogative, but looking at things from a different perspective is entirely within your power.

I personally don't believe there's an afterlife or anything grandiose like that, I think we're just an animal that lives and dies because life has an overwhelming drive to continue itself. That being said, I think it's awesome! I'd much rather exist than not. I'm self aware, I can think, I can have fun, I can experience pain, I can experience joy, heck - they even made it so that doing that thing which keeps us alive as as a species is a lot of fun: I can have sex! I can make friends and interact with other people, I can learn... I wouldn't trade it for the world.

The possibilities are limitless. I figure what the heck, why not experience as much as I can while I'm here since in the end it's all "pointless" as you say.

If you're a gamer - the whole world is your sandbox RPG. Go level up :)

I've felt like that for the longest time.

Life is pointless, get used to it.

I don't agree that the way out of this negative mindset is to simply "think positively." That shit never worked for me. Only thing that works for me is to get busy doing something I halfway enjoy doing. Distraction can be very powerful, so start by getting out of your room and finding a hobby.

I used to feel like that but I've been very happy for the past 30 years and they have totally flown in.

Why does there need to be a point to it? Just start doing stuff and you might find even if its pointless ( which are my feelings on everything I do) doesn't mean it has to be un-enjoyable.

The point of life is the point you make it i nearly got depressed thinking the same funny enough thinking positive has made me so much more happy...

I do :(

I think everyone thinks like that I can't get girls wife don't like sex no more now I just think of ways to end my life I just don't want to hurt my little girls so I think it goes through a lot of people's minds.