INITIAL PERSPECTIVE [final]

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
..Initial Perspective..


What is the meaning of life? A question that would typically seem like one that should be rather simple to answer, being that we spend every living moment acting out answers to that question, it however is not at all. As plain and straightforward as the question may appear, generating anything close to a plain and straightforward, complete answer is nearly impossible! People live their lives each and everyday not knowing WHY and not paying the smallest bit of attention to this question. I think its safe to say that well over more then half of the people you see walking down the street are moving on with their life, day by day with no value or significance about it. Individuals play along the same exact routine every single day, not taking the smallest advantage of the fact that they could be living their life with a true meaning and purpose. Yet then again, who is to say what is meaningful compared to someone else? The meaning of life is indefinite and extremely vague to me, and has no single or specific meaning behind it, for no single or specific person. The meaning of life is varied for every person, and to try and produce an answer that could aggregate and satisfy the lifestyle of each and every human being is not at all simple and perhaps unachievable.
The meaning of life to my understanding is beyond describing, and may or may not be relatable to others, for the simple fact that my personal life is not the same as anyone else's. With that said, the easiest way for me to come up with a sensible answer that could not only suit my own way of life, but everyone else’s as well, is to keep my answer in a very general and universal spectrum. My personal meaning of life is based upon three different things which are all associated with each other. Those are to experience, change, and create. I consider life to be the journey of experiencing varieties of different occurrences, obstacles etc. Then eventually learning from those things, and eventually changing (whether it be an unintentional or intentional change). Subsequent to that change, it is then, that you have created the “new” upgraded you.
Experience is a very large-ranging purpose when it comes life itself. Every hour, minute, and second of the day, you are experiencing something new, no matter how small. When certain significant instances occur in one’s life that seem to stand out from the rest of the continuing experiences you are constantly living through, those are the unique things that make someone else’s life different from any other person. For example, if one runs into a problem, that one notable problem makes your one experience different from anyone else’s. Along with that, the way one deals with that problem is what makes the variation between individuals more distinct than before. Every person handles circumstances differently. Yet, with experiencing that event in their life, they get through it, and learn from that it (that way one knows what to do if it happens again later in life). Afterwards the person would have grown and advanced either physically or mentally. Therefore their state of mind would have changed, and the creation of new things, events, and experiences are soon to come from that.
Experiencing every spectrum of every situation is vital and inevitable during one’s lifetime. With experience comes understanding and knowledge which then leads to the other two points (change and creation). This brings me to the idea that life is not all about the pursuit of happiness. It is commonly said that life is all about happiness and doing whatever makes one happy. No doubt about it...that may be apart of it, yet I do not in any way think that someone's entire idea, meaning and purpose of life should mainly be focused on one's happiness all the time. If it were, than it's pretty safe to say that not a single human being has ever lived a completely purposeful or meaningful life. This is for the simple fact that no person is ever always happy. Firstly, to define the term of happiness, it is in my judgment that to be happy, is to be filled with complete bliss and to have absolute joy in all that we do. To be completely happy one would be from the inside out in total high spirits. With this said, how can one’s entire life be based on the strive to always be that?
Although I’m sure it would seem nice, always trying to being happy is however not at all realistic! Yet after all one’s meaning of life must be realistic and must make sense. Life is real, therefore its meaning must be practical as well. The purpose of life is to experience, and one must not only have experience in the physical being, but in every aspect of emotion as well. You cannot have one without the other, and one cannot have ever felt the absolute feeling of any one certain emotion, unless they have experienced its contradiction. There always needs to be a balance. In order to understand the full effect of being "happy" is to have experienced a not so “happy” time, where one has been angry or sad etc. To have an understanding and experience of both sides of every emotion, situation and moment is what the purpose of living is. With that said, one would only obtain such an understanding if they’d actually experienced and practiced it.
In my eyes, the meaning of life says a lot. It explains one's past, present and future and why it all even matters and occurs. However, in my own opinion, life is the journey in which every individual takes where they must learn to cope with certain experiences and obstacles thrown their way. My meaning of life is how I handle I situations and how I come out different afterwards, which is why I believe that life’s meaning involves change. I consider life to almost be a big test that has many problems in some parts within it. Those problems will ultimately portray how one is being effected by them. The impact the problem had over a person will cause them to react a certain way, and the reaction is what change was created within the person.
Creation is another part of life that I think is a key factor to its meaning. For each person, I think life is all about creating the highest vision for themselves, and actually following through with their vision to make it their reality, or their real and actual self. The process in which that would take, is what life is all about to me. That leads back to experiencing and changing. Although I cannot of coarse put a definition on what would make the utmost of a person, (for the obvious fact that each individual is not the same a any other), even so, I do believe that as a part of life, it is one’s goal to reach that extreme and to make themselves be the best they can be.
Being that in my opinion, the three reasons for life that explain its purpose have been to experience, change and create, I would say is quite relatable to each person, which is why I would say that life’s meaning involves those three aspects. With all that has been said, I would still conclude that the complete meaning of life perhaps has an unexplainable answer. I’ve constructed a number of key portions of what is interconnected with its purpose, yet to actually identify life’s meaning I believe is unattainable for anyone, because while I am still only in high school, I have much of my life ahead of me. For someone to have generated a complete answer for their life, even though their own life is not yet completely lived out, I think is not possible. While one remains alive, it means that they have yet to experience something else, so how can they come up with an versatile yet final answer to what the purpose of life is, if they have yet to finish they’re own.