Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Sometimes you have to live a life which you do not understand.
It is possible to just exist without meaning.
When one meaning cease to be meaningful, it is always possible to create another.
Or is it?

What is a meaningful existence?
And meaningful to whom?
Ultimately, it has to mean something to oneself.
The crux is an egotistical one.
You have to seek meaning for yourself.
Sometimes it is through others and this invariably create meaning for others.
But at the base of all that, it is the self which must perceive what that can mean to oneself.
Serving others is only meaningful if it serves to meet some intrinsic need within oneself.

We form relationships with others, hoping to create meaning by which we live.
We may even form relationship with inanimate objects to achieve a similar outcome.
Hence, many are slavishly forming new relationship with work, money, housing, and transport vehicles.
We can derive meaning from almost anything just so to make our own lives meaningful.

Is my existence a meaningful one?
By what do i derive my meaning from?

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