The Meaning Of Life
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment
The meaning of life is what we assign to it. It is what we will it to be. It is how we feel about our experiences. There are as many different meanings to life as there are people. To define the meaning of “an individual life” by anyone other than the one living it would be an incorrect assumption. Our life has no meaning to anyone else. We are born with no meaning in our life. We fill in the meaning as we live and grow. Life is but a blank slate when we come into the world at birth.
Just as a keepsake has meaning to only the holder of the object. The owner of the keepsake assigns meaning as to the circumstances surrounding the acquisition, the feelings at the time it was acquired, the people associated with it and the history of the object in relation to how the person feels about it now. That encompasses the meaning of the object as much as life’s meaning is defined by that same individual. His experiences and feelings are his or her keepsakes.
The meaning of life is therefore determined by the sum total of experiences, feelings and the values assigned to those experiences and feelings by the person whose life is being defined. No one can give us the meaning of our own lives. Meaning is neither positive nor is it negative-it just is. We are the only ones who can judge whether something in our lives might be meaningful in either a positive or negative way by how we feel about it.
Just as art and music hold different meaning for each of us, life holds a different meaning to each one of us as well. We are the owners of our own lives. We decide the meaning. We all begin life much the same way by our birth and end it the same way in our death. In between, the definition of ones life holds meaning only for that individual. Our life has no meaning to anyone else. Life is a blank slate when we come into the world. It is in between birth and death that we fill in the meaning of our lives.
Rick Mariner – Owner and founder of Haywire Value Priced
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Instrument Artisans (A.S.I.A.) as well as a guitar player. He holds a bachelors degree from University of Md. and a Masters degree from George Washington University.
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