The meaning of Life
People are always asking questions as what is the meaning of life during their lives. To put it another way, what are we living for in our long procedures of life? According to the experience of twenty-six years which I have been through I can say there is no a fixed answer for this kind of questions. If we check the word “life” in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary we can see that life means the time somebody is living or the state of being alive. It means that the meaning of life is that we are alive. As long as we are alive our lives are meaningful; if we die, life comes into nothing, and we lose the basic condition even to talk about our lives. But of course life is not simple just like the literal definition, because everybody’s life is different. Somebody is rich while others poor; somebody is tough while others weak; somebody is hard-working while others lazy… So in my opinion, the meaning of life is specific for individuals. One live one’s life while the other live theirs. It is no need to ask the question to others, because you will get different answers based on the different situations and the answers you’ve got are meaningless to you because of course you are special. The meaning of your life depends only on you, not anyone else. So stop asking questions all around, lie down on your own, and ask yourself the simple question:” Am I alive and what am I supposed to you?” That is the meaning of your life. People will do different things in different ages. So the meaning of life will develop too during the course of life. But do not hesitate; your life is always having the meaning because you are still alive. Leap out of the trap we set for ourselves, then you will see the meaning of your life at present.
