The Meaning Of Life

The meaning of life is staying alive! We accomplish this through three basic efforts. Eat, survive, and reproduce. We eat to fuel our bodies with energy so that we may move around to find more food, shelter, and reproductive partners. We survive by avoiding harm and loss that occur in front of charging Rhinos and Tigers. We reproduce to keep our genes alive and living on to the next generation. If you don't reproduce, you are no longer alive in the next generation, though some would argue you are still alive if your brothers and sisters reproduce. Food, money, and sex then are the three arenas of our lives. Money represents survival. If you win the lottery and get one hundred million dollars, you feel pretty certain you can stay alive for the next fifty years, because you would would have two million dollars a year to live on. That should be enough to buy lunch with. Jeanne Calment of France, lived to be 122 years old. Her lifespan is well documented, so we know people can live past 120. She also smoked cigarettes up until age 117. She realized smoking would shorten her life. What an epiphany after 100 years! She also loved chocolates and red wine. It would have been amazing to see how long Jeanne Calment might have lived if she had cut out the cigarettes, chocolates, and wine! She might have been the first centenarian to break the 150 year age barrier, though Thomas Parr of England, is thought to have already done it. His life was less well documented, though I would think if he was buried in Westminster Abey, they would have tried to accurately record his age. Life is wonderful. It is all we really have. To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. Ben Franklin said this as an axiom. He knew even then that gluttony was one of the seven deadly sins. Less sinning and more living. That's the answer. If anyone has a better meaning of life description, post me a comment on it. I'm sure others will have a very different perspective.
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Dr. Doug Ikeler