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Meaning

What is meaning? This is the question that drives people, whether they realize it or not. The people that do not realize that they live their lives in search of meaning are constantly looking for approval, accomplishment and the next step in their lives. So many people look outward for meaning. They look to their parents, to society, to media, to their friends, and to strangers for meaning. But rarely do they look within. When they do look within, it is only to see if something within themselves can correlate to someone else's version of meaning. And when they find it, they are overjoyed. They go to the gym and wrack their bodies, they go to school to get the degree to get the job to make the money. They hit on the opposite sex so that they can either get into someone's pants or provide the basis for a foundation in which he/she can marry and eventually have a baby. This is folly. Is meaning relative? Perhaps, but I do believe that there are some absolute truths in the world. F