The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in Transcendental Meditation, says that the expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.
I don't think I can say if that's true or not but it sure sounds nice and feels warm to think about. If I turn my own thoughts, cares, and concerns into questions of how each is helping me to expand happiness in and into the world, the solutions or paths forward always feel more clear.
The statement that expanding happiness should be my purpose feels true, partly because it aligns me with the purpose of ALL CREATION, but also because it gives me a purpose beyond survival and reproduction (both of which things I've aced already).
Finding a route forward with a life devotion to happiness expansion might be fraught with misdirection and dead ends. Knowing that a word, deed or action intended to expand happiness can be misunderstood, mistaken or misaligned. It can inadvertently hurt, have unintended consequences.
Consequentially, it will not be a simple path and immediate expansion of happiness may be prolonged or delayed or devoid of occurrence. I feel strongly that with an intent and goal and guide of adding more joy, it just can't have a worse out come than having no purpose or one centered upon myself or wealth building or security.
I think all of that is fucked.
Even if creation has No Purpose, or some purpose other than the expansion of happiness; I think for now I'll try to let it direct my steps at least when I'm not on auto.