What is the meaning of life?
Is there really any ‘meaning’? We are born quite by chance or accident when biology collides and creates us.
I guess, however, as we are born into a certain society, we are guided by certain rules, structures, regulations and we conform or perform.
Therefore, when we become independent of our parents/carers , we must decide who we really are. Shed who we think who we ought to be and just be.
Then, hopefully we will find meaning in certain things we do and decide if that is good or bad or indifferent and if it sits well with how it makes us feel.
We just have to live. Live a life that we shape into something that we are happy with.
If that means a certain career, vocation, or otherwise, then so be it. But most experience conflict within their chosen careers, vocation or otherwise seeking meaning.
Writing this, what does it even mean? To me, its just my opinion. When we navigate our lives, our paths are not usually linear. Not all happy, not all sad, not all meaninful. We just get on with it.
We suffer, we struggle, we laugh, we cry… other people give us meaning. We give others meaning…in the way we treat each other. It’s in the way we treat eachother that determines how we fel, how we act, how we react.
The higherarchy of life, of people, of institutions, influence us, have power over us, inform us. It may be good, it may be destructive….is it right, wrong, indifferent?
You have to give your own life your meaning, and that can be diferent to someone elses meaning… it doesn’t mean it is right or wrong. Doesnt mean its necessarily good, or bad or therwise.
So really there is no meaning like your own meaning so make your life mean something!