the meaning of life!
After spending nearly 3 weeks sick, in pajamas and mostly indoors,
in bed, I think I have discovered the meaning of life. Well at least my
life anyways! I would describe the meaning of life in greater detail
but it’s going to sound SO cheesy and some people will think I am quite
dumb for what I think is the meaning of life. Especially since I have
not fully developed my theory.
Okay, basically here are some elements of the meaning of life:
** life = the pursuit of happiness
** happiness is the feeling I have right at this moment
** I can’t find my happiness in doing things for other people, but if they are happy as a result then that is a good thing.
** most of the stress in my life is in my head
** nothing I own and nothing I can purchase can give me any substantial or lasting happiness
** a lot of the things I thought made me happy are fabrications which perpetuate capitalism
** so much of the things I have in my life are just noise,
pollutants and distractions that have clouded my vision of what real
happiness is
there’s more, but I feel goofy writing this, so I will only divulge in person!
this blog is not a result of an acid trip either! and don’t worry, I still believe in soap and will not become an all out hippy.
December 27th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Debbie!
How can you stop at that point? arrgghh… and you were just starting to make sense as well. Particularly about your vision of real happiness being ‘clouded’. Although I can’t do the “in person” thing how would you feel about discussing further at our leisure all your points and I can chuck in a couple of mine as well just for the fun of it!
Otherwise very poigniant blog and a good indication of a wonderful personal journey. Long may it continue ( that’s the journey by the way, not the feeling ill etc…lol) x
December 28th, 2006 at 12:32 am
that’s it?! just when i’m feeling enlighten by your blog you just stop…kindly continue…
December 28th, 2006 at 5:52 am
Drew and Wally, are you guys serious? I felt like such a tool writing it but perhaps I will have a part two to this blog entry of the meaning of life. Seriously, I feel commpelled to chuck away all of my possessions that I don’t use, even memorabilia (except photos because they serve as a back-up memory to my own failing mind)…
THANKS YOU GUYS! If I could figure out how to satisfy friendster’s email verification I would send you both personal notes with further details. Until then, I remain clueless!!!
:) 
December 28th, 2006 at 6:08 am
Ok well try entering drew.winslow@gmail.com and you should get through. Then delete this comment. Lol oh and cryptic comment of the day
” thats why I chose it!” :o)
December 28th, 2006 at 6:15 am
really interesting comments.
: ) : ) sandhya (london)
being happy is the most difficult state to maintain. i always think that if you think happiness is found by constantly giving to others you will never be disappointed. why? because you do not depend on anyone to make you happy, you control that emotional state. but when they do give something to you it will be a big bonus
happy new year 2007 people
December 28th, 2006 at 6:42 am
What a start…I like it! But hey! Don’t spend all your life discovering the meaning of life for life is also a precious time worth spending, happy or not happy as you stated. As long as in the process, others become happy as well. From a medical point of view, our physical bodies are designed to be happy. Any input to it, may they be activities or just merely nonsense conversations that stimulates our bodies to become happy, are for me LIFE. I’m travelling so much these past months and we’re in pursuit of the same question about life. We found a common denominator, that is, HAPPINESS. The things i mentioned above are just temporary and i think in addition to what you’ve stated, memories last longer than happiness. If happiness is life, then memories last longer than life for even when you’re gone, the thoughts of you or the memories you left behind still make others happy. You also, for that matter, passed over the happiness seed that made your life worth living.
I’ve invested in memories….DEATH BED MEMORIES. But the most important of all is believing that all these magnificent complex designs about our existence are the work of a supreme being…GOD.
December 28th, 2006 at 6:47 am
On the chucking out of all the things you don’t use, I can’t even begin to tell you how enlightening it feels to get rid of all the dross that you have accumilated over the years and that you drag around with you for no real reason other than ” well i might need IT one day” trust me if you need IT that bad and live agrees with you then IT or something like IT will be there.
Does that make sense?
December 28th, 2006 at 6:58 am
dear debbie,
i’d like to commend your effort to post such a serious yet half-baked attempt to make a poetry out of what you feel and of how you see life at present. people like you are a confirmation that descendants of great thinkers are very much alive to this day…
half-baked or consummate, yours is a provocative, if not, poignant narration…
just wondering how interesting you must be in person.
December 28th, 2006 at 7:04 am
i commend your effort to come up with something truly provocative, albeit a bit half-baked (to my opinion). i wonder how interesting you must be in real. In fact, i think that people like you are a vague indication that descendants of great thinkers are very much alive today.
BUT, what has capitalism GOT TO do with it? unless, you intend to be taken as a well-rounded individual. feigned ‘armament’ (or knowledge to be frank) is a dangerous thing to possess.
all in all, you still were able to succeed - imagine, you got MY attention! huh…. (joke only)…..
December 28th, 2006 at 9:01 am
I need to read more and learn more before posting my half-baked theories! Seriously though, it’s not the destination but the journey. It’s the immediate experience. Happiness is also the most amount of happiness we can feel in this moment subtracted by the inevitable sadness that we feel–HOWEVER, we can do all that we can to minimize the sadness by reacting and dealing with the bad shit in life in the most positive and constructive ways. I don’t know, I need to read more and think more about it, but I wish I could have proper dialogue in a way less public that I would feel more comfortable chatting about these things! Oh well! Thanks for your thoughts. And capitalism and all the materials and objects and goods produced as a result–all the things that we don’t need but use as crutches for feigned happiness–this is another distraction to achieving happiness. *sigh*
December 28th, 2006 at 9:56 am
you have a nice cute pet,,,..hihihihi
December 28th, 2006 at 11:05 am
I would like to volunteer for provocative and half-baked dialogue in a less public way. Trust me I’m half-baked with a capital H B! lol
December 28th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
The meaning of life for me is the pursuit for happiness. Everyone has different perspective of what happiness is. Others claim happiness to find true love, to be with just someone they love, others claim for money and power, others claim for popularity and being known, but whatever happiness you’re searching for, that’s the meaning of life. For me, life is to have freedom to pursue happiness.
December 29th, 2006 at 1:09 am
i agree with most. And the “perpetuating capitalism” part? Yeah. Consumerism too, its offspring.
But is the feeling of loneliness, which I now feel, supposedly happiness too that’s simply masked?
December 29th, 2006 at 2:30 am
if everything around us are mere distractions, where do we find happiness? does anybody know? is it possible for a person to decide to be happy for the rest of his life? could he be really happy? enlighten us, debbie!
December 29th, 2006 at 4:11 am
The various meanings that seem to come to life r quite trivial really. No one really knows the meaning of life because we all have different lives, some may have similarities but everyone is different. We constantly run ourselves in circles trying to gather why we have been placed on earth. We try to justify this by saying we are highly evolved primates, or that we were the creation of just one man and one woman put on earth by a higher being. We create for ourselves hope, faith, and happiness, to deal with the never ending sadness that we have also created. For there is always a ying for the yang, or in laymans terms, there is always the good and the bad. Balance is the key, and imbalance is life. Wut we all seek is balance for nothing can exist if there is no balance. There is no meaning there is just the natural instinct to balance our time on this earth
December 29th, 2006 at 5:35 am
well life is too short so every that comes to us just enjoy and stand strong and face the challenges of life your not the only one were heaps…..takecare always.im a surfer from australia. 4 me life is too short go surf…peace….god bless
December 29th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
thanks for your heroic attempt to describe the meaning of life. My only query is … if life is a pursuit of happiness, and happiness is an emotion that varies anytime, does it mean..if you’re not happy then there’s no meaning in life?? But i agree with you in a sense that happiness is the very reason of our existence. It should be the main goal in our day to day way of living. Although, wether you are happy or not, sad or lonely, succesful or a failure, famous or unknown, victorious or a loser…that’s part of life…. and life itself!
It does’nt matter what the end result of your being here on earth (you wouldn’t remember it anyhow when you die) but, what matter most is … how you live with it!
Keep on blogging… looking forward to your next blog-buster!!!
December 30th, 2006 at 7:51 am
What does it take to attain true happiness? “The Lesser, The Better…” else, “Less Is More!”.
If you’re not satisfied with just living a simple life, then you know where your life is heading. Happiness is simplicity, though I still wonder why people tend to live in complex luxuries.
And one more thing, anyone who are two-timers (or multi-timers) will not escape their memories. It will continue to haunt them ’til the end of their days.
December 30th, 2006 at 10:55 am
All l know about life is that everything happens for a reason, nothing happens by chance be it love, happiness, sorrow etc
December 30th, 2006 at 11:32 am
my coment is to suggest you you find the book of The purpose of driven life and this book will tell you every ting.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:25 am
Don’t take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anywayd.
December 31st, 2006 at 7:43 am
keep going! apparantly we are all listening and shouting with you!
much luv and happy new year!
luv from Life!
January 1st, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Not to feel goofy about these ramblings. It seems that there are many who have attempted to answer this question/fulfill this quest. These same people are perhaps the most COURAGE (that’s you) when they share their ideas/conclusions with others. And much of it sounds to make sense, especially the part about much of what we have is the result of feeding into and living within the bounds of a capitalistic, materialistic society where meaning is derived from what we have, what we achieve, and what we accomplish rather than on the more true and accurate who we are. These thoughts are very intriguing and encouraging. Reading more would make for time well spent. Keeping sharing them!
Yes, everyone has their own definition of what makes them happy and what is the meaning of life, but that in no way should prevent someone (and I don’t think you’re saying it does) from embarking on the very difficult, sometimes dark, but very rewarding journey to find it.
I agree with many of you, happiness is a central is not main goal in life. But who’s happiness?
Loneliness probably is happiness masked, but the mask is heavily applied and harder than we think to cast aside.
Happy new year to all!
January 7th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
hi! why not recieve the joy Jesus is offering to all, just trust Him and make Him your Lord and savior you willexperience the joy He promised.