Question: Do you know how many elderly people feel unnecessary? Neither their children, nor their grandchildren, nor anyone else needs them. There are so many like that. They feel that nobody needs them. How can a person learn to feel needed?

Answer: I believe the key is not to look for someone who needs you on a personal level but rather to ask: What can I do that would be good and useful for a large number of people, for all of humanity?

Question: Really?

Answer: Of course. Today, everything is designed to make us as independent from each other as possible. And when someone tries to step in and help, we do not want that.

Question: So you mean that a simple grandmother can open herself up to the world and can be useful to the world, to people?

Answer: Absolutely! If she understands what true benefit for the world and for others means, she will find her place in it.

Question: Can you gently suggest what kind of benefit she might bring to the world?

Answer: She can teach herself and others how to be properly interconnected with one another; that would bring an enormous positive force into the world and make the world better.

Question: That is, she should just think about this connection every day and try to build it in some way?

Answer: She can do it this way, yes.

Comment: Especially in the age of the Internet. That could give her a sense of being needed.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Is the desire to feel needed the meaning of life? Could that be the meaning of my life?

Answer: No, that is not the meaning. It is only a means. The meaning of life must be something higher than that.

Question: Is the meaning of life in establishing good, kind connections with others, as you said?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely!

Question: And that meaning will fill a person?

Answer: It certainly will. A person will begin to feel that he has this meaning. Through this fulfillment, through the connection between us, we rise to the next level, and we can fill ourselves for another hundred years ahead.

We enter a system in which we are all connected. It is an entirely new sense of life. We live as if in a single body.

Question: Could there be a “second youth” after 70 or 80 in the sense that you are describing?

Answer: Absolutely! A person opens himself up to the society that he is in, that he is helping to build.

Question: And his thoughts about good connections, new connections, are those thoughts renewing?

Answer: That is exactly what we need to do.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/6/25

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