The Good Life
August 24, 2022
The question isn't what makes life meaningful. That's too vague. Meaning should be rephrased as "value." What makes life valuable, or worth valuing?
Why should man wake up every morning?
I think I found my answer. Because we'll all die one day, and that alone makes it worth keeping. Just the idea that this is short and transient, that gentle reminder makes our lives valuable. We'll lose what we have here right now one day.
It's quite simple really. What is scarce is rare and what is rare is valuable because there's so little of it. We'll submit to the afterlife or the void after this, so the something is far more than the nothing.
But the question remains then, to be rephrased, "What makes the good life?" "What is the life worth living?"
It's a more grounded question that many people find easier to give an answer to. I say that the good life is not one dependent on transaction. It's not one that's dependent on anything really. It's the one that experiences the here and now.
It's a life centered in the present, and seeing things as they are.