Friday, June 19, 2026

The Meaning of Life

'Meaning' is one of those polysemic words (having more than one meaning). I raise this point because yesterday I found an essay about the meaning of life that was quite moving and also, quite ambiguous because the author never made it clear what he meant by 'meaning'.

So I went browsing about the meaning of life. Be careful here. If you ask Google or Substack about the meaning of life, your life will be over before you finish reading. One essay I found suggested that 'meaning' was looking backward whereas 'purpose' looks forward. Yes, but ...

if you have wasted some of your life reading what I have written on the subject, you will discover other dimensions of meaning, such as:

the meaning of life is that we work out the meaning of life.

The garden is calling. Come. We might discover meaning there.

On the other hand, if you would rather read my nonsense than hoe, (it's up to you after all) just type meaning into the search bar for any of the following blogs:

Notes That Missed the Basket

More Notes That Missed

Still Missing The Basket

The Basket Overflow

Words Gather Here

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