#1245 - Make one
When something happens in our life, particularly if it’s bad or painful, one of the first questions that emerge in our minds is "why?"
Why did it happen?
Why did it go like this?
Why me?
Why now?
All questions without answer.
Sure, we can find some logical explanation and maybe even the causes, but that helps more with the how.
The why remains elusive at best.
Yet, finding meaning in things is essential.
Meaning turns good things into great things. It makes pain and suffering bearable. It is a source of inner strength and energy.
So, asking for meaning is profoundly human.
However, asking the universe, the divine or life for meaning is pointless.
Even if there is a big master plan somewhere, we will never know or understand it. So, I prefer to think there is none.
I know there is a meaning, but, as Viktor Frankl wrote in his masterpiece "Man's Search For Meaning", I am the one questioned by life.
I am the one in charge of finding the meaning of what happens in my life.
Now that I have reflected on it, "finding" may be a misleading word. It gives the idea that the meaning is there, and if I look carefully, I can uncover it.
I believe it is less about finding and more about making.
We can build meaning out of everything that happens to us by creating something beautiful, outside or inside.
I don't know if there is a meaning in anything that happens, but I know I can make one out of anything that happens.