Deeds speak

"We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle

The meaning of life

I used to think that life had to have some external meaning outside ourselves. I used to be in search of a great big Meaning (with a capital M) out there in the nebulous void. But I was ignoring an important detail about the concept 'meaning'. For something to have meaning, it has to be of meaning to someone. Nothing is intrinsically meaningful; things are meaningful to us when we find value in them. So the meaning of my life is to make it meaningful to the person living it - namely me. The way to do that is to consciously define my values and to pursue them with the best within myself. The meaning of life is no mystery. The meaning of life is to live it!