I don't consider myself a woman of faith, so some people will question my will to live. After all, if you are not living and doing good for the sake of a greater power, what's the point?
But I find meaning in my life. I find meaning in the fact that I can find happiness in the things I enjoy. Even though I don't believe in life after death, I don't feel that is a reason to believe that life is pointless. I think its more of a reason to assign meaning to our lives. This is life is all I have, so I need to make it the best I can.
I find meaning in the fact that I can affect other people. I make people laugh, or cry. I can share important moments with other people, and I can help other people through tough times. Sharing my life with others makes me feel like I am apart of something bigger than myself.
At the end of his adventures, Candide concluded that life was about cultivating your own garden. I couldn't agree more. I believe that life is about finding what makes you happy and sharing that happiness with other people. Maybe my life won't matter to people 100 years from now, or in the grand scheme of things, but that doesn't matter to me. If in my life, I succeed in making myself and others happy, then I lived a meaningful life.
I completely agree with what you said. I don't live my life trying to find meaning in every single thing that i do and i think that in someways that is what provides the meaning in my life. I don't over analyze and think through everything before i do it and that way the things that i do are organic they aren't artificial. They are what i am.
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