what's the meaning of life?
I just ask this question many times.
Everyone just has one change to experience life, however, time never goes back. So this cause the anxiety, how can we choose a best life to live? How should we know the things we are dong now are the correct things to do.
When I start to search answer from books. I actually get confused at beginning. The book "Of Human Bondage" led me to think that the effort people take to struggle in young age maybe just in vain since they finally would also have to live a normal life like all other people.
The book "The Moon and Sixpence" told me what talent people's life will be. They don't choose life. Life choose them. But I am not a talent people. I seem destined to be normal. If this is true, why I still struggle to make some difference, which has no value for other people and for the world. Why should I tolerate all difficulty and not to choose a easy life?
The book "A Brief History of Humankind" let me know all human history is just a huge imagination. All things human done are useless from a long term. I get confused at first. If everything is just a imagination. What's the meaning of my life? What I can rely on to continue my life?
Finally, I get current answer for all questions. If a person want to keep living. Actually, he should believe in something, anything. This is real imagination and from a long point, it's valueless. But what's interesting, the imagination people rely on to keep living is different. Everyone will get his own imagination, which nobody can live with.
For example. if I have a friend, who choose to live in a stable life, she will get married early and have a stable job which may never changed. Sometimes this seems to be a happy life with little pressure. It may be true. But problem is, this is not my imagination. I cannot choose same life as my friend since we build the imagination in different way. In my imagination, I must keep learning, keep searching for answers, maybe never married. This may be good, may be bad for other people. But this is the only way I can keep living.
Life is meaningless. So stop searching for the meaning. What should do to stop anxiety is to build ourselves a suitable imagine world.
生活就是一场自欺欺人的旅行。
文中提到的3本书分别是：《人性的枷锁》、《月亮与六便士》、《人类简史》
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