The Real Way to Find Meaning in an Unplannable Life

Advice from crisis psychologists, intelligence analysts, chronic illness experts, and more

Corinne Purtill
Forge
Published in
9 min readSep 29, 2020

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During the first few months of the pandemic, many of us assumed that this was all an inconvenient yet ultimately finite detour from normal life. It’s now clear that this is no detour, but a journey of unknown length most us…

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Corinne Purtill
Forge
Writer for

Journalist with words at Time, Quartz, and elsewhere. Author of Ghosts in the Forest, a Kindle Single.