Recently, my teammate AP2 published a touching post about life’s meaning. A major point he sought to make was this:
“our lives hold as much meaning as we give them”
which he connects with the danger of losing a sense of meaningfulness, the danger of getting swallowed up by a personal existential nihilism, of becoming trapped in the darkness of perceived and felt pointlessness.
This is very close to a thought I’ve arrived at, again and again, over many years: life is not something that has a meaning bestowed from without; life is a set of conditions which allow meaning to occur, to take shape, to be found and be given.
Otherwise put,
Life is the condition for meaning and meaningfulness, rather than something that needs a single, permanent, or predetermined meaning.
Does that make sense to you? I wonder if I put it too technically when I write of “conditions”(?).
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