Saying that life is meaningless is not the same as saying that there is no reason or meaning to live. In fact, the realisation of the former will give you the power to maximise life’s full potential. How? Say a tree or a flower, what is the meaning of it? None. It will be totally different though when one can give it a context. For instance, if you are a horticulturist, gardening gives you a sense of fulfilment, maybe even relaxation. Plants may then represent companionship or objects of appreciation. Otherwise, to others, they are just appearances in the backdrop. This is the same as our lives. It is inherently meaningless but we give it a definition.
The universe makes no judgement, nor is there any packing order or hierarchical structure. It is we humans that create the polars, extremes and comparisons. But it is hard to totally escape this fact of life. Naturally by doing something, we generate a feeling that will be different from one person to another. And by the way we individually relate to an object or an activity, we also give different meaning to it. If we are to make life meaningful to us, we would want to engage in things that make our hearts sing and be connected in activities that we find fruitful and rewarding. This is what gives us the purpose to drive us to do what we do everyday. It is when one loses this purpose, albeit artificially defined, that one loses the meaning to live.
Now that you have the option to define the meaning of your life, have you asked yourself lately what gives yours the deepest meaning?
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