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May 04
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Hence we are all assigning meanings to everything simultaneously and collectively, and we are doing it with a fair amount of symmetry, I’d say. Human life–on the local level–is really an amazing dance.
But we can’t get so attached to these “meanings,” because they’re imaginary, and when life doesn’t play the meaning game along with you, it hurts a lot.
Someone suddenly dies, let’s say. Then we glimpse the unreality of our deepest sense of meaning. This is especially traumatic when you lose someone, or something, that you thought partially defined you. This can’t be real. This loss has no meaning. It just is.
In this situation, we are thrust out of balance with our core definitions. The meanings we thought were so stable and real, suddenly they fall under heavy scrutiny. After all of the meaningful moments, your loved one is just gone. No meaning at all. Just does not exist anymore ever again.
“…”
Sometimes, we lose our old meanings forever, right? [pointing at me] In fact, I think most people, after a deep loss, are never the same again–not even close to the same person they were before this loss, ever again.
“So then, all meaning is an outward manifestation of our deep human desire to survive and be happy? And we need those meanings, of course. But we should remember that we made them up? We should not take our sense of meaning too seriously?”
Yes, Charlie. That’s it, precisely.
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