Hi
I struggle with this as well. I'm not sure that life is supposed to have meaning, though a lot of people have spent a lot of time telling us that it should. Are the little evolutionary differences like opposable thumbs enough reason to suggest that we should have a more meaningful life than the rest of the animal world?
I think that what's meaningful is different for each of us, and we can create a lifestyle, to some extent, that is right for us and includes things that are important to us. If I think about my life on an day-to-day basis, though -- the weeks and months that go by where all I seem to have done is get up, go to work, come home, watch tv, go to bed and then start over again, with household chores being thrown in liberally for lively entertainment -- it's a major downer. So I try not to look at it that way. The tools here have been helpful in getting me to notice and realize that I actually do quite a few fun and interesting things that get blackened out when I start to think bleakly about the mundane, necessity-of-living stuff.
Take care
Janice
