Ayman asked:

What's the meaning of life? I mean...even I've lost the sense of life...it doesn't even have any sense.
Please answer me back.

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I have been thinking about this myself lately, it is a question that comes up on these pages a number
of times and I have several attempts at answering it in the past. Here is my position to date: What's
the meaning of life is the wrong question to ask. It's the wrong question to ask because it is based on
a mistaken view of our life. The mistaken view says that our lives have a structure, a narrative, like
that of a story or a film, that our lives have a beginning middle and end that we think has to make
sense to have some direction or story arc to it, and in the same way that when we see a film or read a
book that plays with this traditional narrative structure we think that the film makes no sense, when
we look at our lives and see that the seemingly narrative structure as no focus we tend to ask what is
the meaning of it all. If in fact our lives are not so structured then, we need to rethink what we are
asking. The down side is that I don't know what these new questions are yet.

It seems to me that in our lives time has a more playful role, it stops and starts, loops around,
reverses repeats, in other words it does not follow a simple straight trajectory. Our lives are much too
complicated and intricate to ever be able to fit into any pigeonhole of meaning any one all embracing
explanation. This is not to say that what we do is meaningless, just that if we change the way we view
our lives we need then to change the question we ask about it, maybe if we pay more attention to the
weird little time trips we go on we would find that these contain there own significance? Unfortunately
this idea only occurred to me a few days ago I haven't had the time to explore the roles all these
different times play!! But I'll let you know when I do.