The Meaning of Life Is Love: I Want To Be With You

Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart,
Like, 'why are we here?' and 'where do we go?' and 'how come it's so hard?'
~ Jack Johnson

                                                                     

In these bodies we will live, and in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love you invest your life
~ Mumford Sons


Earlier articles in this series have explored the meaning of life and the purpose of life. This article will be about love as the meaning. We will attempt to unravel why this is the most chosen answer for our poets and artists.


The meaning of life is the sum meaning of all of the events in your life. It is easy, relatively, to understand the meaning of a wedding. This is because a wedding is an event in your life that was designed to hold a specific meaning.

The same is true of smaller events, such as buying a pair of shoes or turning on a faucet. The actions that led to the event starts with you, and so these events are the easiest to understand because you simply have to understand what you meant when you did them.

And I Want To Be With You:

                                                                         


In order to understand the meaning of an event that you didn't initiate, you either have to ask the initiator, you have to understand the initiator well enough that you can guess their mind, or the action has to have a meaning that is shared by both of you due to a shared culture, such as the act of presenting an engagement ring.

When events aren't initiated by anyone, you must either determine that they have no meaning, or assign the actions to a universal initiator such as God in which case you would have to ask God, since you can't understand God's mind, nor do you share a culture with God.


Those that believe in God are left to ask God via prayer, and seek to understand the answers they receive. Others have simply accepted that it is impossible to know God's mind, and have determined to live a life without understanding the meaning while still having faith that there is one.

For those who don't believe in God, the meaning of life is found in the events that you choose to do, and so the meaning of a life is built throughout one's life by the actions you choose to take.


Actions undertaken for love are often considered to have the most meaning. For example, the meaning of hammering a nail is to strike the nail home, greater, to construct a chair.

However, if alongside these other meanings, the carpenter loves his craft, the action has more meaning. If the carpenter is making the chair for a loved daughter, the action has more meaning yet.

More importantly, actions done for the sake of love often contribute to long term goals that span multiple lifetimes, such as building the relationship with your daughter, which will in turn affect how she interacts with the world.

Or building an exquisite chair that makes your company the most sought after producers of chairs.


Love is not the only meaning of life, but it is a meaning that can inform and heighten everything you do