The Meaning Of Life

There is so much effort and push to become successful, strive to reach goals, and chase our dreams, and those efforts will serve many of us well. I have long been an advocate for having somewhere to go in life and having some target to aim at, for otherwise you are simply drifting aimlessly through life. One that simply drifts through life may not like where they end up because they have let the external world and chance decide where they go. Based on the current paradigm of life on this planet, it makes sense to strive for something to be considered successful, but what does that mean? Being successful normally equates to having more money and material things, and there is nothing wrong with having all the nice things while we move through our lives, but these achievements cannot be all there is to this existence. If all we are here to do is eat, work, consume, and die, then what is the real point of existence? If we are only here to trudge through life and get nothing out of it besides the mundane, then we are simply someone’s experiment.

I am one of those individuals who seem to struggle with goals and where I want to go in life; I also find myself wondering about the meaning is for chasing all these worldly things. I also find myself ignoring the past, although important in forming who I am now, it does not seem important for moving forward. Living in the present seems to be the only phenomenon that I am…