What is the meaning of your life?
Yeah. She swung for the fences on this one. So what is the meaning of my life? Well, I could give you the easy stereotypical Christian answer. I could quote Bible verses and throw in some PTL's and Hallelujah's and whatnot. Believe me, even though I haven't spoken it for a while, my native tongue is not English, it's Christianese. I'm still fluent. But that's just lame and cheesy and totally not what she was getting at, so I'm not gonna do that.
Instead, I'm going to say this: if Kat had asked me this question even a year ago, much less when we went to school together, I would've had to tell her I didn't know and leave it there. But now, I have a better understanding of what I want to do with the rest of my life. When I was at Concordia, I didn't what I wanted to do. I was there for pre-veterinary schooling, on the track to med school. Unfortunately, that actually wasn't what I wanted to do. I eventually failed out of Concordia (twice) before I even started thinking about what what I wanted from my life. Not what I thought my parents wanted, not what people expected from me; what I wanted.
At this point, I really had to think about what I wanted. It was then that I got the job I currently have as a tutor. I love this job. Teaching children feels like something I was born to do. Author and YouTuber John Green was asked in one of his videos what the meaning of life was. His answer? "Other people."
I'm inclined to agree with him, and that is why I've decided that the meaning of my life is helping people. So there you go. The meaning of my life is helping other people, specifically young people, through their lives. I try whenever I meet people to leave their lives in a better state than I found it, if I ever do leave. That, to me, is what gives my life meaning. But come back and ask me that question again in 3-5 years. We'll see what I say then.
At this point, I really had to think about what I wanted. It was then that I got the job I currently have as a tutor. I love this job. Teaching children feels like something I was born to do. Author and YouTuber John Green was asked in one of his videos what the meaning of life was. His answer? "Other people."
I'm inclined to agree with him, and that is why I've decided that the meaning of my life is helping people. So there you go. The meaning of my life is helping other people, specifically young people, through their lives. I try whenever I meet people to leave their lives in a better state than I found it, if I ever do leave. That, to me, is what gives my life meaning. But come back and ask me that question again in 3-5 years. We'll see what I say then.
