Below is a quote from a PBS philosophy show on the meaning of life. I hope it guides you as well as it has guided me over the last decade.
We push ahead of ourselves. Already in school we are taught that we learn not for school itself but for life. And then you go to school 9, 10, 12 years, thinking, Then life begins. But then life doesn’t begin. You start thinking, Later, when I have a job, then life begins. When I finish with my studies, then life begins. And that is how it is. When I have a family of my own, then life begins. When I get children, then life begins. When I get that promotion, then life begins. So we keep postponing it. Then, when I retire, then life begins.
And this experience is a motivation for me when I meet people in the middle of their lives to expose them to some challenges. To actually make something out of their lives right now. To dare to break up. To dare to make that choice. To dare to take that job. To dare to move. To dare to think along new lines. To dare to start that education if that’s what feels right deep down. To dare to feel. What is it I want to do right now? And in this “to dare,” the meaning of life is created.
The meaning of life is not something that comes down from heaven on a string and then life is finished, whatever the theologians say. But the meaning of life is created. –Lennart Koskinen