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Old 03-03-2013, 06:09 PM   #48 (permalink)
Freebase Dali
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I keep coming across people that, for some reason, expect there to be a meaning to life. And because they don't find one, they start thinking about offing themselves.

Why do people need some greater meaning in order to enjoy life? Why is such a thing so prerequisite for so many people? Just because we have the capacity to extrapolate the possibility of meaning via the ability to recognize and understand patterns and integrate them emotionally says absolutely nothing about whether life requires meaning or not.
And for a person to be enslaved by their own assumptions that there must be meaning beyond the simple act of enjoying your life and making it the best you can, is probably the issue to begin with.
If we didn't go off searching for some intangible thing, we might not be so disappointed when we never get it.

Just live life and enjoy it. If you need more than that, you are confusing the entire point.
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