The Meaning of Life

For those who claim life is monotonous and boring, or for those that think that all life has to offer is sorrow and grief, do they think that death will give them a way out? A solution to end it all? Because personally, I don't think it does. Death simply ceases existence on Earth, it does not erase events and actions that were once a part of your life.

Life is always worth living for, sometimes what we are living for, is what's not worth it. And we don't realize that soon enough. Sometimes people spend half their lives in search of something that's not meant for them, seeking something they already have, or wanting something they don't need. I think walking around with a meaningless life is the worst punishment you can give yourself. We all have to find a way to give our life meaning, to devote our lives to something or someone that will make it worthwhile, that will give it direction, purpose, and meaning.

Getting what you want is not solace, realizing and understanding why you don't have what you want is true solace.

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom writes:

"As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
- Morrie, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom pg. 118

Ever since I read the book many years ago, his words have stuck with me. We are all so used to saying that life is short, now is the time to live, and we always complain about how time ran too ahead of us and we had no choice but to follow. But what we forget in the process is that we're not just losing time or moving steadily towards the end of it all, we are, in fact, growing. The more time we spend growing, the more we understand our true purpose in life, the meaning of life, and the world around us.

You do not simply lose your youth as the years go by, you gain wisdom. You learn to live life to its full extent, to cherish it, to want what you have, and to keep it safe. I read somewhere that success is primarily getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you have. We are so obsessed with getting the things that we want, but when we finally get them, we forget how much they meant to us in the first place. Sort of like life, when you have it, you don't know what you want to do with it, and when you see it slowly escaping your hold, you realize all that you wanted but never tried to get from life.