The Meaning of Life.

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/17/george-lucas-meaning-of-life/
This link is to some excerpts on George Lucas's take on the meaning of life.


"The only reason for life is life. There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason."

I agree with Lucas immensely. There is no meaning to life because life is meaning.  We cannot have meaning without life and we cannot have life without meaning. Life gives us meaning and that is good, that is okay. I am by no means saying that we should stop discussing the meaning of life, though. I think we would loose a lot if we just accepted that we could never figure it out. Part of life is trying, in vain, to figure it out. The meaning of life is to attempt to find meaning in it. So let's keep going, let's try to figure life out. It's totally futile but trying to find answers is what makes life worth living. It's scary because we can't assign meaning to everything, but we can figure some things out. We can choose to assign our own meaning to things when we feel it's necessary.

"If we have a meaningful place in this process, it is to try to fit into a healthy, symbiotic relationship with other life force. Everybody, ultimately, is trying to reach a harmony with the other parts of the life force. And in trying to figure out what life is all about, we ultimately come down to expressions of compassion and love, helping the rest of the life force, caring about others without any conditions or expectations, without expecting to get anything in return."

Once again, good ole George hit it right on the head. We should constantly be striving for a more loving and harmonious state. That is a huge undertaking, what more meaning do you need?

Thankful for a classmate (Emily Hawkins is the Bomb)

My blog topic is inspired by the the response I wrote to this prompt FRESHMAN YEAR for McCarthy's American Lit class. Emily and I were in that class together and I wrote about being thankful for her Freshman year so I feel like I have to Senior year as well. Not that I didn't want to.
Anyways if you wanna read my FRESHMAN YEAR post http://emilyismyhorcrux.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankfulness-emily-hawkins-is-bomb.html

Dear Emily, (this is how the OG post starts)

Thanks for being in my philosophy class. Even though you're leaving next semester to be a physical trainer for senior experience. Its whatever. I'm not mad about it. I'm really glad that I can still look at you in class and read your mind. (Didn't you sit behind me Freshman year also?) We were really mean then and we're even meaner now. I like it.

"I love the way you smell." That is a quote from my FRESHMAN YEAR blog post. So most of all I am thankful that we are not like our Freshman year selves. I'm really glad we grew and changed together and are even better friends now. I'm glad we still like nerdy things but its not the only thing we talk about anymore. I am thankful that we are still friends even though Freshman year was awful and we thought we were really cool but actually we were super lame. It makes me worry that I'm even lamer now then I realize.

"I am thankful you're alive and tolerate me"
-Gianna Clark, 2011