How do you all deal with meaning in life? What experiences or reasoning lead you to your choice and how has/does it affect(ed) your life?
Perhaps the meaning of life is to live the question. As Lao Tzu said: "To dance the dance of existence."?
Anyone read Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning?
Basically, to get through life, you have to find meaning. Very well written, very sad telling of his time in Nazi concentration camp.
I read it at a time when I was trying to get over a woman who I love. I think my therapist was trying to say "move on, don't let this be what your life is all about."
My life "does" have meaning. I'd a dad. I'm a son. I'm a husband. I'm a friend. I'm a citizen of the world.
What I do affects people. I try to be conscious of that.
I've only ever read summaries and reviews of the book. I've wanted to check it out though. Thanks for the insight!
There is a meaning to LIFE (writ large) and that is to evolve. We humans are now devolving physically but in order to evolve mentally we need to constantly learn. Knowledge is the meaning for our species. Otherwise, meaning is only what each of us gives to our life.
I choose to live it not to contemplate its meaning.
I answered "other", but my true answer is "both". I accept that there is none other than what I create for myself.