What is the meaning of life? Many people have wondered the answer to this question since the beginning of humanity. What are we here for? To tell you the true answer, I would have to say that it is up to the individual. For me, and hopefully the answer will be the same for you after reading this article, it's simply about enjoying life and being happy.

What is happiness? This too differs from person to person. For some, happiness is being content. For others, it's nonstop working all around the clock. Everyone is different. The question is are you really happy? When one is faced with death (as long as it isn't an instantaneous death), one looks at his/her life from one of two perspectives. It's either, "I really enjoyed my life. I may not have gotten to do everything I wanted, but I did the best I could. I enjoyed my life to the fullest extent I could have." In return, you die happy. The other perception is this: "God, i really wish I took the time to just sit back and love everything. I wish i just simply enjoyed my surroundings; wish i enjoyed life. Instead, I continuously tried being something more than what I really was. I tried being on top of everything instead of just simply living life." In return, you die hoping your loved ones don't make the same mistake. The correct question to ask is what makes YOU happy? Is what you think makes you happy really making you happy, or is it just comfortable for the time being - a way to cope with reality? Perhaps a relationship in which you don't like, but stick with it anyways for this, that, or the other reason. Is whatever that's making you happy now going to still make you happy in the future? Such as you cheating on your spouse to fulfill some lustful desire. To be truthfully happy, you must find your soul, and live life doing what your soul wants, not what your ego wants. When you really think about it, we live life trying to be happy. You may be a person of great depression, but you still wouldn't live unless you had some form of happiness stuffed deep down inside you.

By being human, or even a being, you've been given a gift. When I say gift, I don't mean a gift as in the gift of music, or to swim really fast, but the gift of life. More importantly, you've been given the gift to feel. You have the ability to feel emotions such as hatred, joy, confusion, happiness, sadness, and complete bliss all at the same time. You have the, sometimes unfortunate, gift to feel so low and crappy and yet still understand that life is still worth living. Let me explain my own view point of this gift. I believe that consciousness was part of the universe just as an atom, or gravity. We are here simply because the universe wanted to express itself. To prove this further, our words are nothing more than an expression of our feelings. When the first humans arose, they came up with a word for water, a word for being sad, a word for danger, until we get a full dictionary of words like we have today. Well as the universe was conscious and wished to express its feelings, it did so by creating something that could expess these feelings, just as we express our feelings in words.

The meaning of life is not just to die as many people think. You are here to express mother nature. Live life to the fullest. If you have a whole bunch of responcibility and hate your life, it's because you haven't yet learned the true meaning of life; to feel. So, would you rather feel happy and enjoy life for what it really is, or would you rather think about yourself and be sad the rest of your life. Live life thinking about existence and what life really is, and you will receive great contentment. Live life worrying about getting somewhere, or becoming something your not, or even wanting things you don't have, and you will receive nothing in terms of virtue. In my eyes, the true meaning of life and existence is to simply enjoy life, and to love and be happy. Hopefully i have helped to enlighten you and make you feel the same.