The meaning of life

“What is the meaning of life?” This is a very special question. People in any age and gender may think of this question. Same as the number of person asked this question, there are numerous answers to this question, with each of them claiming themselves to be the righteous explanation to the question.

Back in 1991, there was a little boy whose name is Chen Sin. Chen Sin was a boy who likes to learn how things work. Most of his toys, including the calculator and other electric devices in home had been dissembled then assembled by this naughty boy.

On afternoon in the school holiday, Chen Sin was doing another routine of dissemble and assemble. This time he was totally messed up, he can’t remember how to put the parts of this radio together. As usual, he put this “another victim” in the operation into his secret box hoping that grandma does not find out. He then lay on the floor, looked to the sky through the window and start thinking about what a little boy would think about. Just while his though was shifting from starwar to the born of an imaginary planet a question popped out in his mind, just like a sprout popped out from the earth. “How do I end up here? What is the purpose of me being here? What is the meaning of my life?”

He rushed into the kitchen and asked his grandmother those question come from nowhere. His grandmother replied: “You are here because of your father and mother love each other. Your purpose is to study hard, become a useful person, be dutiful to your parent and family and contribute to eh society.” He then rushed to his aunt who was busy doing accounting at the moment and asked the same question again. “If you have the time to think of this question, you should be on your homework! Look at your semester result, it’s too terrible to compare to mine when I was your age.”

After many consultation session with his relatives, Chen Sin was finally convinced that the meaning of life is, after you are born, be an obedient child, go to the school and study hard, get a good paying job, take good care of your parent, get married, raise some kid and rest in peace in the end. Do some charity work or deed if you got extra time and money. (Please note, I am not offending my family. I have learned a lot from them and I love them.)

*The Meaning of Life*

Luckily, this little boy’s intelligent does not stop growing as his age does. He soon realized that those meaning of life he used to know cannot convinced him anymore. “Something is not right; meaning of life should not be just like that.”

So the search of meaning of life began.

Newton once said “We are standing on the shoulders of the giants”. It means the knowledge we know nowadays is based on the experience of people in the past.

Chen Sin could not agree more with the idea. So he started to seek for others’ opinion and understanding about the meaning of life.

*"Oh great tree of wisdom, please tell me what is the meaning of life"*

“Meaning of life? Enjoy as much food as you can. Life is short, but good food is unlimited. Enjoy while you can.” A cubby guy who sat behind him said, while eating junk food. “No wonder you have such a big stomach” said Chen Sin, looked a bit disappointed. Eating sure is one way to enjoy life, but it cannot be the meaning of life. “To be beautiful always!!”, “To conquer the world”, “To earn all the money!”, “To save the earth”, “To discover new knowledge!”, “Save the world from hunger and devastation”, “how do I know?”, “Never think of it”, “No time to chat, I

am busy..”…

“Am I the only one who can’t agree with everyone?” He started to think. He tried finding his hope in the internet. But tons of explanation had put him into more serious doubt.

Weeks later, it seemed that the goddess of luck waved her hand to him. One sunny afternoon, the weather is so hot that Chen Sin could not continue on his work. He went into the kitchen and tried to find something to chill him up.

“Mmm, I wonder how this orange’s taste is…Sweet or Sour?” he took an orange from the fridge.
“Urrgh..it’s sour!!(Yes you’re right I don’t like sour thing)

It came out from nowhere, a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his body. It felt like a scientist who just discovered a new phenomenon of science. Yes, he (or, I) had found the answer that he had been looking for.

The meaning of life cannot be explained by mere thinking. Just like an orange, one can never know the taste of an orange by holding it and guessing. (Unless he is a psychic) One must taste the orange in order to know what its taste is. Same with the meaning of life, one must experience his life in order to know what the true meaning of his life is. One can never tell another the true meaning of life is, because of the things and events that everyone in this world experience is different.

So if you ask me what the meaning of my life is, I can’t tell you. All I can tell is I am creating part of it, trying to make it as meaningful and special as I could. Target of life can be set; the meaning of life is what you achieved in the end. I would like to make it meaningful by trying different life style, experience variety of life and use my time on precious and important things that deserve attention(Like,helping others etc...). Perhapes when my life's chapter is coming to end, I then could know what my life means with all those things i have done.Hope that everyone can have a meaningful life in the end.