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The Meaning of Life is to Live
But what does it mean to live?
You are here. Maybe your life is good, maybe not. You might be having a great day, an awful day, or simply a “meh” day. Things happening now or ahead might be incredible, or they might be scary. You are here. Anything is possible from one extreme to the other and everywhere in between.
Are you just going through the motions? Does your rote and routine dominate your life? Or are you having experiences, trying and doing new things, and exploring what life has to offer? Whatever the answer is, right now, that’s now. It’s not written in stone.
That means you get to choose, if things are shit, to turn them around. How? I don’t have a clue, but that’s because I’m not living your life, nor am I in your head, heart, or soul. What I do know is that you have options.
Your situation may be such, right now, that it feels like your options are nil. Or a choice between bad and worse. Maybe that’s true. However, you have choices. You are here. You’re alive. Choosing to live, to genuinely live, is as simple as making more choices and decisions consciously, actively, for yourself.
To most, the meaning of life is this overarching, maddening, almost impossible-to-explain or realize notion. It’s a matter of tremendous depth and a quest of epic proportions to…
