To key to happiness: Living a meaningful life?

January 28, 2010 at 8:55 pm · Filed under Happiness and tagged: direction, Happiness, life, meaningful life, purpose

To start, what does it mean to live a “meaningful life”, the life everybody wants to live? According to dictionary definition, meaningful is-full of meaning; having significance or purpose, value, worthwile and expressive.

For me, a meaningful life is a life which we can look back on and feel fulfilled, a life with a clear purpose.

I found a website which explores how we can live a meaningful life and this particular sentence grabbed me, it said,

 ”Too many of us live like goldfish, swimming in the same orbit day in and day out feeling uninspired, tired, bored and sometimes worse. Life is much too precious to waste that way. Every person has a unique purpose in life. I implore you not to waste your days berating yourself for what you don’t know and don’t do well. Instead, discover your strengths, passions, purpose and build your life on those.”

So, it is clear that to live a meaningful life, it is important for us to know ourselves. I always found this a difficult concept to get a grip on. How can we get to know ourselves better? We are ourselves…so how can we get to know ourselves? I have realised that by trying new things, we can find out how we react to different situations, and this essentially helps us know ourselves better. We can find the things we really enjoy, find our passions and our strengths and spend more time doing these things, and spend less time doing things we are not so great at.

So the big question is: Why do we all want to live a meaningful life? I found an article and the title was, “Happiness the Fuel for a Meaninful Life.” The title itself paints the answer. We simply want to live a meaningful life because it is the happiest life. A life full of worth and meaning.

To close my article I would like to finish with a great quote I found. Enjoy!

“When we find truth, constancy, fidelity, and love, we are happy…”

So please comment and suggest ways to experience true happiness and live a meaningful life!

Thanks guys,

Peace

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