Service can create meaning during seasons when achievement feels empty.

There are seasons when your own progress feels pointless and nothing you achieve registers. Doing something for someone else frequently cuts through that when nothing else does, because it produces a use for you that does not depend on how you feel about yourself.

If you are in a flat stretch, try helping someone specific rather than trying to feel better first. Small and concrete. It is not a cure and it reliably supplies a reason to be up and out, which is often what was actually missing.