Life’s meaning is relative to whatever and whoever you are. That is because life is inherently meaningless. Please don’t take that as nihilistic or cynical. The fact is that it just objectively has no inherent meaning. That’s OK though because we project meaning onto our own existence, because that is all we can do. We exist. And we have to justify to ourselves why we continue to exist everyday instead of not existing. Sometimes it is a very hard endeavor. But most days it does not enter into the equation. The following is an inexhaustive list of the meaning of life to me:
Checking Facebook to see what people have thought enough of me to make an interaction
Picking up my daughter from kindergarten and trying to make her laugh before we get home by suggesting that for show and tell she take a roll of toilet paper, and share with each classmate, one sheet
Checking in with my grandmother to assure her that I am still alive
Looking at exotic places on Google maps and concocting bizarre schemes of how I’d drive there
Buying a sack of 20 limes from the Mexican supermarket on my street for one dollar and feeling like I’ve won the lottery
Reading comedy that my friends write
Studying law and thinking how the accepted principles can be changed for the better
Watching Judge Judy and better understanding my follies than I would through studying law…
Watching Redtube whenever no one else is here
Eating the Indonesian instant noodles that I paid thirty cents for in Chicago by the Aragon Ballroom and feeling like I saved 8 dollars.
Throwing away the scraps of my daughter’s ‘projects’
Watching my daughter sleep and reflecting on how I can be a better parent
Re-reading Chekov or ‘Cruel Shoes’ when I should be doing my assigned school readings
Meeting an incredibly beautiful person I know I have no chance with
Realizing that everything is and always has been and always will be OK
Pissing a human in a car off for breaking for a squirrel
Trying to remember my ‘native’ Romanichal phrases for everyday expressions
Drinking Clover Valley diet soda
Helping friends whenever possible
Driving while listening to Earwolf podcasts
Listening to Bob Dylan and feeling morose
Smiling at everyone I have the strength to smile at
Beating my daughter mercilessly at Wii Mario Kart
Trying to love everything about this godforsaken world
Writing this
Falling asleep watching The Simpsons on dvd
I like "Whitney" but soon it's leaving Thursday to make way for "Up All Night."
ReplyDeletePornhub instead of Redtube
I will beat you and Iris in Mario Kart Wii!
This was so wonderful.
ReplyDeleteagreed. My favorite was Meeting an incredibly beautiful person I know I have no chance with but I don't know why. I'm sure Glenn will weigh in though.
ReplyDeleteWould it be weird if I borrowed your show-and-tell idea you had for Iris and took it to work? We don't have a show-and-tell time but I agree with you that it would be pretty hilarious to walk around handing out squares of tp.
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