Solving the meaning of life
Aug 08 '03
The Bottom Line Life is beautiful, if you discover the meaning of it.
I was once asked: do you know what the meaning of life is?
I thought briefly on the topic wondering what more could I contribute to what has already been said? Is it even an answerable question?
I have recently determined that it is. I don’t know how this question has been dwelled upon for so long, when the answer has been flowing into our ears for decades, in song.
Through life we encounter a large number of people, if we are lucky, we fall in love with someone.
The simple answer seems to be, the meaning of life is to Love. And from that moment, life truly begins.
The answer itself seems remarkably easy, yet living it day to day is anything but.
The meaning of life becomes all that much more complicated when you throw all these outside influences at love. Careers, hobbies, demands, habits, and personal flaws like jealousy, anger, impatience, all those things take away from our ability to Love.
All you need is love.
Incorrect. We also need the ability to separate life’s distractions and pressures from our capacity to love. I have never been happier in life than when in love, and experiencing that same type of love back. I would dare say that I am not the only one who has felt this way. I do not believe that someone can be happier than when they have found someone to love unconditionally, who loves them in return equally.
Love Stinks, yeah, yeah, Love Stinks.
Many people have found that type of wonderful unconditional love, and many of us have lost it, let it get stale, let it die, or let it rot. That is when you are the most unhappy. The meaning of life surely isn’t to be unhappy. If it were, humanity probably wouldn’t have lasted these thousands of years. You’ve lost it, that’s when it stinks.
Some people wait a lifetime.
It could take a very long time for two people to be in the same place, at the same time, in the very same stage of their lives, and open enough to give one another 100% of themselves. You may even find couples who have been together for a long time, and only towards the end do they realize what they have in each other, at that point they may experience the greatest love of all. I’ve seen old people wandering around holding hands, and thought, wow, they must have had something great when they were younger. And as I approach old people age myself (ok, not yet) I realize, maybe not. Maybe it has taken them a lifetime to see what they have. But it isn’t ever too late to find that, appreciate it, and celebrate it daily, until we are dead. Only then is it too late. Those old people may have lost many of the things we value as younger people, but what they have is more valuable than anything we have.
I’m all about lovin’ you.
If you can look at that person and find something new to love, or just see what you fell in love with that very first time, and see those things everyday, and experience them like it’s that first time all over again; when you’ve got someone who has gotten into your soul, who you feel like you can love a lifetimes worth, in just one night, who has changed your world, and every time they look at you and you see the love in their face, their eyes, and their smile, you’re reminded why you love them so much, you’re living the meaning of life. Look no further. Cherish what you’ve got.
You don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone.
That really should be changed to: you don’t know what you had, till it’s gone. Taking love for granted is the first step on the road to losing it. It is all too easy to do. You’re both focused on careers, making money to pay the bills, cutting back on things you used to enjoy because you’re trying to save for something in the future, or paying off the past. Well, that future can disappear in what may seem to be overnight due to your neglect of love. Suddenly, what are you left saving for? That future will never happen. The secret to loving is leaving the distractions on the doorstep before you come inside.
You and only you can make me feel the way I do.
When you’ve found that special someone who can bring joy and pleasure into your life like no one else ever has, when you feel exhilaration rush through your body the moment you see them after you last parted ways, that’s the feeling you need to hold onto through any of the difficult times. When angry with that someone, disappointed in what they’ve done, or frustrated for lack of support, you need to fall back on those things, and dismiss whatever reason you were upset about to begin with.
Take my hand, take my whole life too.
The beauty of finding someone who you want to experience everything life has to offer is unlike anything else I’ve ever found. It’s enlightening and scary at the same time. Things change quickly, what you once may have had no use for, or cared nothing about, suddenly it’s moving to the forefront of your consciousness. You like the ideas in your head, you can see the various things you’ve always dreamt of, and those things, accomplishments, experiences, trips you wanted to take, places you wanted to visit, you see them differently now, you see them with that someone. You give over and over again, of everything, of yourself, and you are rewarded through the love of someone else.
Some things ARE meant to be.
I say love, it is a flower, and you, it’s only seed.
To find the kind of love of which I write, to find it, and to hold it, to not want to miss a thing, now that’s difficult. There is so much in our fast paced world to snatch our attention away from our love, to neglect the ones we love, or just plain ignore or overlook that which we fell in love with in the other person to begin with, that our fragile flower wilts and dies. When it’s dead, it’s too late. But if that flower is wilting and drooping, and you can cut off some dead leaves, water it some more, warm it with your heart, that love can come right back, and you’ll find yourself some kind of wonderful. Sometimes it takes a lot of work, you may need to get yourself right before you can fix what you’ve screwed up. But if you found that special someone, those cuts from the thorns leading to the rose are nothing more than lessons learned while learning how to truly love.
I believe Jon Bon Jovi said it best:
And I will love you, baby - Always
And I'll be there forever and a day - Always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst and
The words don't rhyme
And I know when I die, you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you - Always
-Dedicated to the person who taught me all these things, who showed them to me, and tried to live them with me, yet I was too stupid to realize it until it was too
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