What If The Meaning Of Life Is The Simplest Thing Ever?
What if it’s staring us all right in the face?
The quest to find the meaning of life has occupied the human mind for most of recorded history. Why are we here? What are we doing? What’s the answer to the question of life, the Universe, and Everything? (That one we know — it’s 42).
It’s easy to argue that philosophy, religion, and science are all on the exact same quest — to discover the meaning of life. Each has their own approach to the question. Religion gives the meaning to an unseen God and serving his/her/its/their purpose. Philosophy gives the meaning to abstract notions of being, sometimes connected and other times disconnected (though largely philosophy has no straightforward answer). Science gives the meaning of life to empirical evidence, painstaking research, and discovering new laws, theories, and dynamics of the cosmos, great and small.
Even with centuries, and sometimes millennia of work, the answer remains unclear. As the once-popular novelty Magic 8 Ball tends to tell you,
“Ask again later.”
Thick tomes and deep volumes of books have been written in the quest to discover the meaning of life. Often, every question produces only more questions. The deep meaning of our purpose is a challenging, difficult…
