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Life is simply a process of experiences. Whether those experiences are good or bad is simply a question of the meaning that we each individually and/or collectively apply to the physical experience.
Humans become meaning making machines! When our lives are in balance no meaning is required.
When born we bring with us an inventory of experiences passed down through parents, our true selves and others, as well as through the phenomena we’ve already experienced in the womb. As life progresses the nurture effect adds to and compounds prior programming, until and unless conscious intervention reprograms an alternative. Yes, the reprogramming is also meaning and story, only it is one that serves the phenomenal existence of life and enhances the human needs rather than detracting from them.
Life itself is empty and meaningless until we apply meaning through story to the things that happen. Choose the meaning that serves you and the story you want told!