Searching for meaning of our life

  "What's the meaning of the life?" This is a recurring question asking from everyone. I remembered that I have read a book, the author said like this:" What's the meaning of the life? It is not a question asking from you. It is a question asking you by your life." I did not remember the actual wordings but it inspired me at that moment.

  We all know we will inevitably die. We all know in the material world, something happened now will surely end in future. Even the earth, the whole human race and the universal will eventually demise. Knowing this destiny, pessimist claims that life has no meanings at all. No matter how we struggle, we have no way to reverse this destiny. In order to tackle this thought, religion introduces.  We have a hope for eternity.

  Now, it seems to contribute some meanings if our life ground on something eternal.  We hope that after we die, our life still exist in another spiritual way, hopefully in a graceful and glorious way. But is this answer distracting the actual question? We are asking :"What's the meaning of the life?" But not :"What will be after we die?" Even we surely know we will be grateful after we die, it does not mean our life currently living are meaningful.  Someone may argues that the meaning of our life is to prepare a grateful life after we die. Despite of it, they should still need to find some meanings on what they are doing now. Otherwise, it is just an excuse of deferring or avoiding the question but not actually facing it. And it is not so exciting if one say when he is dying :"Well. My life is so so, boring, painful. But I will be grateful after I pass away."

    That's why the author I talked before inspired me. Instead of asking, we should answer it. "What's the meaning of the life?" is too general. Let come up with something specific for me: "What's the meaning of my life?" We all responsible to give meaning to our own life. Is the question still too big and difficult? Let break down into smaller pieces. We can give meaning to our daily works. For example, what I am doing now is writing, "What's the meaning of writing English blog now?" Answer:" I can practice my English writing skill, I can share my thinking, I am fulfilled when I finish writing an essay." That's super easy to answer! I spend less than a minute to think about it. Then the next question may be :"What will be the meaning of hiking in the coming Sunday?" "What is the meaning of seeing this movie?" "What's the meaning of having lunch with my friends?", etc.  Let gather many tiny meaningful pieces to build a meaningful life.