On some level we are all faced with the question- What do you do with the life you have been given? What has meaning to you? Do you try to slowly whittle your life into only the bare skeleton of that meaning? Or does life seem to demand that we do things that have no meaning for us, and that we put meaning into them? But for what reasons do we do them? If such reasons "do not make you go," which I agree with, then what does? And if what life demands of us is that we find or create a value in it for ourselves, how can we do this? How can we alter our most innate responses to the situations with which we are faced? If we do not automatically see meaning in every faucet and orange peel... How can we create meaning for ourselves? Is creating meaning different from maintaining an illusion in order to sustain ourselves?

I ask what life demands of us. Isn't this an avoidance of the harsh truth- life asks nothing. There is very little that we must do. Most people like to feel trapped, to believe that their life has been decided for them, and that they have very little choice in the matter. The fear that life is only what we make it- and so in some sense to love life is to love ourselves- and that we are alone in a vast field of possibilities, with no end in sight, and no one to direct us.