What is meaning? Is it the Webster’s definition? How you feel about your life? What people think about you? Or is it money and cars? Clothes and relationships? Is it the people you care about? Your One-and-Only? Your kids? Your precious panting lap-warmer?

Or is it something more. Something better. Something really worth the pains and joys of living. Something… eternal?

I’ve been thinking lately about life, and, as far as I can see, its short-lived and over-rated. People give life too much hype. They don’t realize, when they are small, what its all about. They wake up, do what they’re told(or so they innocently believe), go to school, eat a little, laugh a little, breathe a little, sleep. Childhood is a blur. A year is an eternity. Christmas and birthdays never come fast enough. Everything is special and beautiful to a child. Well, that is until they begin to think that they are “grown-up”.

Ah, yes, the neck-strangling years when they are between eight and sixteen. Their mouths flap nonstop about friends and the opposite sex and cellphones and everything else that doesn’t matter. Constant disrespect and disobedience roll off of their tongues and then, later, they are under the sad impression that they were never in the wrong and the cycle begins all over again until, finally, they wake up from their fairytale dreams that life is easy and there is nothing to worry about. (more…)