I feel as if I'm missing something in life, but I don't know what it is. Any thoughts on this?
I remember feeling exactly like you not too long ago. For me it felt like I was never quite where I felt I belonged… that there was always some other place, some other time, or some other world I belonged that wasn’t where I was now.It made me feel like I was missing the most essential things in life, since I only knew that this wasn’t it, but I had no idea what was missing!What eventually made me feel differently about it was having something to work towards, something that made me feel like my life mattered!I now know that this feeling of being lost only came from me not having something to work towards, but as soon as I found what it was that I felt I had to do, I felt like I belonged here. Even though nothing else changed, I just felt like everything was coming together step by step, little by little.That being said, I believe what is missing from your life currently is Direction.You may know where it is you want your life to go, but if that is the case then you probably don’t do everything in your power to get there, you are still holding back for some reason. This causes you to only feel partly fulfilled and not as much as you could be.The definition of “feeling fulfilled” cannot coexist with the feeling of missing something in your life. Those two literally cancel each other out. Therefore, right now you are not feeling fulfilled in your life, and most of that feeling comes from doing something that matters.We only feel truly alive when we do something of value, something that makes us feel like there is a reason we were born. You have to find that reason for yourself right now. That should be your biggest task as of this moment forward. Nothing takes priority over this… NOTHING.If you do not find this, then you will continue to feel lost, you will not feel like anything you do matters, and to make things worse, you will always feel that hole inside your heart.Find something that makes you feel valuable, and you will fill that hole.
Do you know any "Slice of life" anime? And how do you define that kind of genre?
Bakuman and Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo are the two best slice of life anime there are. Slice of Life is just a genre that involves the daily lives of regular people going about their ways. There's nothing supernatural and there's no amazing action. It's mainly focused on the characters. Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo (comedy/romance): Sorata Kanda is the main character of this anime. In the beginning of the show, it describes how he has to live in the dorm called Sakurasou, a dorm for weirdos and misfits. He is the only normal person there but because he loves raising cats, he is sent to Sakurasou, the only place that pets were allowed. Anyways, one day their dorm adviser tells him to pick up a girl from the train station and that she'll be living at Sakurasou. She also tells him that she is now his responsibility. Little did he know that this girl was a complete invalid and has absolutely no real life skills. The show is about him having to look after her. REALLY funny. (24 ep) http://myanimelist.net/anime/13759/Sakur... Bakuman (comedy/romance): It's about two teenagers, Mashiro Moritaka and Akito Takagi, aiming to become the two best mangaka in Japan. In the beginning, Takagi tells Moritaka of his planto become a mangaka with Takagi becoming the writer, and Mashiro becoming the artist. In the beginning, Mashiro was against this but when he bumps into his crush, Azuki Miho, he found out that she wanted to become a voice actress. This is when Mashiro made a promise with Azuki that when he makes an anime and she becomes a voice actress for that anime, they'll get married. The anime spans 10 years of their lives starting from middle school up til they're 25. Along the way, the encounter many difficulties. (3 season 75 episodes) http://myanimelist.net/anime/7674/Bakuma... Btw, the guys who wrote Bakuman also wrote Deathnote. So you know the story will be good. It also provides you a lot of information about the manga industry.