The meaning of it all

Everybody is looking for the meaning of life. Something, that would give it all some sense. Why are we doing things? We are all going to die anyway, what does it matter then what we do?

All the big leaders in the worlds have died, we can now talk about them, but it doesn’t really seem, that they had some influence. Times and people who have come after them have changed it all. All the past sufferings have ended and past joys as well, intelligence and evil has died with people and it’s not in this world anymore. So how does it matter anyway how I live my life, do I cause joy or pain and do I try to change something or waste my life.

The truth is that our lives will end and no matter how many people we are able to help, the world still goes on and new generations with new needs come without gaining anything from our work. Or if they do (for example some medical or technical innovation) does it make new generations really happier or they will just have a different environment for the same human challenges we’ve had already for thousands of years? Is it pointless even to try?

I’ve recently talked to several people, who challenge my understanding about each one of us should do something to improve the world. They tell me, that really, there is no difference between good and bad, because it all will end. Or – whatever you do with your life it will only influence a very small, tiny part of the world (if it does more today, then put it in the perspective of history), so you will give up as soon as you realize how pointless your striving really is.

So should we really seek for trying to change the world? Isn’t the thought a bit too overwhelming, so that it’s inevitable that at one point we’ll arrive to a conclusion, that we’ve wasted our lives trying to change something, which is actually out of our reach? And does it justify of giving up?

I’ve found my needed answer from the conclusion, that each one of us has an individual responsibility over our own lives. We all have our individual talents, we meet different people during our days, we come across unique situations and challenges. And we have responsibility over what reaches our reality and what we do with our talents. According to my understanding you don’t have to change the world as a planet or the flow of universal history in history books (is there such thing?), but the world as your reality. You have influence over it and it’s not anything too overwhelming or elusive. Some of us have talents for influencing big masses, some are relators in more intimate environment. But we all have abilities to improve our surroundings. The though about all of us trying to do it is inspiring.

Still – why it matters, that we give our best in our reality? It will still end. Yes, what’s the point of living? I don’t even pretend to be the one with answers, I can only demonstrate my stupididty by answering such fundamental questions with ease. But to maintain my joy and zest of life, I need to have some ground on which to rely my efforts in this world. So my ground is, that the meaning of life is living my life the way I was meant to live it. And I think that we all have our specific meaning in the world, depending of our talents, environment etc.

Right now, when sitting behind the computer in this beautiful morning, I feel that people tend to abuse their ability to think. They spend their days wondering over the meaning of life, when they should actually live it. They get depressed, because they are not sure, why they are doing things, then actually the meaning is exactly doing it. Why to overanalyse everything and drain yourself out of energy by searching desperately some ultimate meaning? Why can’t the meaning be the most simple thing and the biggest challenge is to accept that? Isn’t life actually very simple and easy, but we tend to see complexities in the biggest clarity?

To accept, act and enjoy.