A job that pays well, has good benefits and health insurance, that doesn’t make me work nights, early mornings, holidays, snow days, or weekends, so I can have that priceless time with my family.
Normal desires that are increasingly becoming the privilege of the landed elite.
I'm pretty weird about gifts though I guess. I feel like the concept of giving gifts on certain days is largely a product of cultural manipulation by the wider corporate sphere, so I just don't ever feel obligated, and make it clear to others that they not feel obligated, to give gifts on Christmas or birthdays. I buy gifts for people when they need something and won't or can't buy it themselves regardless of the time of year. Or sometimes just if I know they'll like it. I'm privileged enough to have more money than I need, so I don't really need or expect others to buy me anything.
The cats find it far more entertaining than Factorio.
I literally have a stack of cash here waiting for that to exist.
You should become a man of God. He redeems even the most wretched of men for himself and prepares them for everlasting life with him, but usually also uses them in this life somehow.
The redemption is based on the ancient law thereof. No man is able to redeem his brother from the power of sin and death, as all mankind was sold under sin. Therefore God became our Redeemer when he was born as a man, which is still celebrated every Christmas. Moreover he has already redeemed mankind by laying down his life, which is still commemorated every passover. You just surrender to Jesus, and he takes care of the rest.
However a meaningful life won't be easy, but you might find that the alternatives aren't any better.
