Understanding The Question "What is The Meaning of Life"

I apologize in advance if this may become to inappropriate or different. Being myself, a realistic type of guy I often think of these things. Anyway I'm just gonna get straight to the point and start this off by asking an important question. “What is the meaning of life?”

I myself find a tough time trying to figure an answer to this question, but the thing I find very ironic is most people nowadays don’t know that one thing that makes their life fulfilling. I know this saying has been repeated multiple times over the course of our lives and that it’s a bit cheesy, overused and a cliché. Although there is no right or wrong answer, I believe the meaning of life is happiness. I believe we spend every second of our lives to fill our life with happiness and it would either make us happier or unhappier. We all have passions, hobbies and goals that we do, which hopefully results us gaining a sense of happiness. In our everyday lives we do things that makes us chase things that we think would make us happy later on in life. For example, the things that we don't want to do, like studying for a test. You're not gonna gain happiness from studying, but you do it because you know you'll eventually lead yourself to happiness just like everything else that we do. Studying makes you able to create good habits to achieve better marks therefore giving you the opportunity of entering well known colleges and universities. Given the chance of receiving a good education, you’re able to strive for higher paying jobs and spend your money on whatever you want. Whether it be a fancy house, a nice car, or maybe even someday a family of your own. Everyone, for all different kinds of reasons does what they want because they think that decision will make their life even better. The reason why I bring this up and why I think it’s important to understand the meaning of life is because life is not easy. Life is going to throw obstacles and problems at you that you’ve never even thought about now. It’s hectic. Sometimes you may even feel so overwhelmed by everything you’ll just give up. There’s low points in your life that are going to happen to you that you can’t avoid no matter how much you try, but remember that this obstacle that you will prevail over will always make you stronger.

A constant theme has been popping up lately these last few years for me and it was a question of “how to become successful in life.” We’ve come to an age where we are beginning to wonder how and what we are going to do with our lives. But before we figure out how to reach success in life, shouldn't we at least try to figure out what success in life is?