We cannot choose to have meaning in our lives

No, it doesn’t. There is a problem, something is wrong. You may not have caused it or even contributed to the problem. There is some meaning in your reaction to this situation, but that’s not enough to make life meaningful.

Xenophon! How goes it in your neck of de woOds?

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I really couldn’t have said it any better than Xenophon. he’s good. Meaning already has US there to give attention to it. Now it only takes us to outline true clarity in our own right. If we even decide to bother. Only oneself really can explain clearly the reality of meaning to oneself. And so forth. We interpret life in different manners, now it only takes story-telling time to explain certain events (reason) as to what we’ve come across.

In short. Life needs us here so we can learn, study, and observe. eventually life provides us accurate answers to difficult situations. I believe! [-o<