“We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.”

― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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Meaningful life & Definition of a meaningful life:

Living life with greater purpose, significance, fulfillment, and satisfaction are called a meaningful life. 

Many people are disappointed with their lives and at some point, they wonder whether life is really meaningful! To make life meaningful and more significant it should be the main purpose of our life. Not only you, but so many people around the world are finding ways to live meaningful lives. A loaf of bread and a little daal becomes more significant in times of extreme hunger, otherwise, expensive food on a golden plate becomes meaningless when the stomach remains full. Similarly, if we don’t have any new goals in our lives, if we don’t want to get something new, if we don’t feel hungry to do something new our life will become meaningless. 

Life can never be meaningful if you walk aimlessly, no matter how much money you have, build wealth or achieve success. After a while, the question will arise in your mind: Who am I?  What do I want to do with my life?  What is the real meaning of my life? 

Facing all these questions, you will feel helpless, suffer from an inferiority complex, your anger will gradually increase, your health will deteriorate, and you will become anxious. 

Ego is very important in someone’s life, money is very important in someone’s life, and love is important in someone’s life or something else. But to enjoy life, to make life meaningful, one has to give up the attraction of them, give up the illusion. There are many people who can’t sleep well even on a golden couch, there are many people who can’t live life to the fullest despite having a lot in life. 

Everything is needed for completeness in our life, to make life meaningful.  As there is a need for love, so for money, wealth, and good relations.  But when egoism and sentimentality get involved with these, life becomes meaningless. 

Some simple things we must take care of to make life meaningful.

“Parents give you life. Only you can give it meaning.”

― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

The most important thing in life is life itself. Life must become meaningful when life becomes life-centered. May our decisions, our actions, and our mission be life-centered.  We have to think like this, ‘As I am in this world for a few days I will live in such a way that it has a good impact on this society, family, and this world’. Even if we leave this world so that the good effects of our deeds fall on this world.  We should try to contribute to the environment, biosphere, and society. Happiness & Prosperity does not increase by mere receiving, it requires generosity, giving, and harmony with people. 

We are social beings, so we should have a responsibility towards this society, and we should also remember that if the society is not healthy, if there is no happy environment in the society, then our life will become meaningless.

Whatever we can do good and contribute to this world and society, we can get back many times, and that can play an incomparable role in making our lives full and meaningful.

People generally accept those who they feel that they are similar to them and cannot accept those who are slightly different. There are different types of people in this world, there are people with different mindsets, if you develop the ability to get along with everyone, and adapt to them, life will become meaningful. Human behavior and human reactions are not always equal. We accept the reactions or behaviors that we like, and we get into a conflict when someone does not behave or react in the way we like or love. On the contrary, if we can accept people as they are, we too will be able to live a life of meaning and fulfillment. And this requires increasing our acceptance to such an extent that all frictions are reduced, all mental conflicts are removed and life becomes ideal. 

There are many people who don’t want to be socialized except with their peers or superiors for their ego.  They do not even want to speak properly to others, and even sometimes misbehave because only of their ego. All these people’s lives become more meaningless. 

If acceptance develops within us, the feeling of accepting everyone, and getting along with everyone, then life will be much more satisfying and it will become easy and meaningful. Both good qualities and bad qualities are present in each of you and me.  Leaving your ego, if you see the good qualities of others without always seeing the bad sides, then your vision will be much wider, and your mind will become much more fresh and productive. When the mind is good, everything is good and life is meaningful.

Fulfillment will come in life only if tomorrow will be better than today. Nothing beats the self-satisfaction that comes from being better today or tomorrow than in the past and striving to keep others better. A night out, a nice night party or a date with a girlfriend are the little pleasures in life that will come and go.

Life becomes meaningful only when others learn from you, follow you, and try to imitate you. Personal development is the only path that can make you a role model in the future. A meaningful life is a life that leaves an impression on people’s minds, and on the hurt of this society. 

To make life meaningful, instead of being an incompetent optimist, become a worthy person, moving forward in life with a greater purpose. It will make your daily waking up full of excitement. 

“With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.”

― Daniel Klein

I will give a very simple example for your better understanding. You will find that there are many children who get a lot of satisfaction and enjoy by sharing their favorite chocolate, or any favorite food with others.

 

We can learn a lot in life from these little children, we can share our happiness and beautiful thoughts with others like these children. In that, not only our happiness will increase, we will become more prosperous, and life will become meaningful. 

Why most people today do not find meaning in life? Because they spend their whole lives saying everything is mine. This conservative-minded person spends their whole life saying ‘nothing, nothing I have’. They cannot trust anyone, not even their own wife, children, or family. Then tell me how their lives will become meaningful! 

No matter what you have or not, but you have a good mind, you have a lot of love, share it with your family, relatives, and friends, you will be very well and life will become very meaningful.