The Burden of Making Life Worthwhile
There is an uncomfortable truth about life many of us spend years trying to avoid: Meaning is not discovered, it is created. Most of us grow up believing life will become meaningful once we have achieved enough. A better salary, a larger house, a promotion, a measure of financial independence, all of these are expected […] The post The Burden of Making Life Worthwhile appeared first on The Namibian .
There is an uncomfortable truth about life many of us spend years trying to avoid: Meaning is not discovered, it is created.
Most of us grow up believing life will become meaningful once we have achieved enough.
A better salary, a larger house, a promotion, a measure of financial independence, all of these are expected to arrive carrying a lasting sense of fulfilment.
They improve the quality of our lives, certainly, yet they seldom answer the deeper question of why we are living them at all.
