Meaning In Life

Only you will know what gives your life meaning.
What gives your life joy.
What fills your heart with happiness.
What makes your life complete.

What anyone else thinks is irrelevant.
You must live the life
That is right for you,
Not anyone else.

But before the key to the door of meaning can be held,
Two other keys are needed to access that key.

Who are you?
What do you want?
Who are you?

Do not answer this by your lineage,
Or your work occupation,
Or your financial status.
Or anything by which you had no control
To begin with or must do to survive.
These are not who you are.

Who you are is defined by
What you believe,
What you value,
What you hold dearest to your heart
Above all else.
Under what situations would you sacrifice
Yourself for another?
What are the moral boundaries you have drawn
That others should not ever cross or they will
Incur your wrath?
When given a choice,
HOW do you choose?
WHY do you make the decisions you do?
How do you weigh one alternative above another?
What you value, what you believe.
These are who you are.

What do you want?
What is it that you want the most out of life?
What do you desire the most?
Do you desire peace with yourself?
Do you want material wealth?
Do you want happiness?
Do you want true love?
Do you want nothing at all?
Is material wealth really that important?
Is material wealth enough?
Is happiness important?
Is happiness enough?
Is love important?
Is love enough?

By knowing who we are and where we want to go,
Life itself begins to have meaning.
Meaning in life is found in DOING
What is right for you,
In the journey, not in the destination.
It is found in our choices,
And in our decisions
To get to where we want to go.
And from our thoughts we shape our world with our hands
To bring about meaning
Each and every day of our lives.

by Albert S. Wang