[annie]

Originally Posted by ImOpen

I can't see anything good coming out of doing this.
We're talking about something very complex. Something that is rooted deep within us. It is with certainty guiding us all day long without our knowledge of it.

My idea is that you could express part of it by using "abstract channels" - writing poems, painting etc. but it is just plain silly to believe that we have the verbal power to define our true meaning of life (espiecally after just a couple of months of consideration).



It is multi-leveled and language itself set the limitations for what can be expressed. (Describe a color like yellow, but one that you have never seen before... Describe yellow in correlation to other colors and concepts... "it's... bright..."

When we try to define meaning we are boxing ourselves in and limit our outlook on life. We cannot possibly cover everything and if we were to live after this "home-spun" ideom, the result would only be that our lives would get very "dry" and simplistic.

My goal would be something like:
"I want to live a good life, feeling good but also experiencing pain in order to enjoy the good times. But I also wan't to feel that special satisfaction when you're feeling low and enjoying it in some weird way. I also want to have a lot those feelings where everything just feels "real". When you are just stricken by how beautiful everything is and so on. The meaning of my life is always to be calm and spread that calmness to my friends, but without interfering with their underlying personalities. I don't want to change them too much. I want the negative people negative, who likes to be negative. My goal is to understand life and different outlooks on life..."

...and I could go on for the rest of my life.
So - do you see what I'm getting at? All of the things I could possibly write could just be summed up in a feeling from within which is aways there. Just pick it out and let that feeling or intuition guide you. Meditate if you have to to get it out.

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uhhhhhhhh....yeah....I did.