Life Quote

“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.” 
― Henry Miller

I find this quote humors just because everyone seems to have their own theory on the meaning of life and how to find it and well, life may not have a meaning at all.

Aside from looking at life's basic general function (growing, procreating, and dying), all other ideas become subjective. There are two main ideas that I assume most people agree with to some extent or to  a similar variation. The first idea is brought by religion in the most basic and general way: the purpose of life is to do this or that to obtain some positive outcome after you die. The second idea I consider to brought upon by society which is to [find and] follow your passion and to contribute to society how you like.

Of course I would like to think there is more to life than just having kids, pursuing a passion, or being a good person. I think that most people want life to have greater significance than just pure existence no matter what faith (or lack of faith) they have. This is definitely what Henry Miller is saying. I guess to get through life and to feel as if we have some importance, we need to give our lives some type of meaning that it probably doesn't have.

I definitely do not know what the purpose of life is and even on my deathbed I still may not know. However, I don't think I agree that separate purposes exists to each individual. I think that saying my life's purpose is different from your life's purpose just proves that perhaps we give meaning to where there really is none.