Hello, Here Is My Attempt To Introduce And Explain The Hard Pass
A couple of Sundays ago, I was sitting at a bar during the NFC Championship game when a longtime friend asked if she could tell me something that might upset me. Now, there's really no good way to answer this question. No matter what I say, the chances are, after, my mood is going to be drastically changed. I wound up answering the way most people do, with a passive, "Okay?"
"You need a purpose in life."
What stood out here is this assessment was hard to argue with since, over the last few months, I've been telling people, "I have no purpose in life." I'm not a scientist, but I could see an alignment of opinions here. (Ironically, the person who told me this is a scientist.) Now, I kind of say it in one of those ways that's both a joke, but also somewhat true. For instance, if someone asks if I can feed their cat on a Tuesday at 2pm, the most likely answer is, "Oh, yeah, no problem, I have no purpose in life anyway."
In reality, I do have some purposes. But since my decade-long employment at Uproxx ended in 2024, a lot of my main purposes have eroded, to the point I've become very bored.
