Can We "Find" Meaning?
I wonder if it is accurate to speak of a “loss” of meaning in our lives. Or, for that matter, I wonder if it is accurate to speak of “finding” meaning. These words, losing and finding, imply that meaning is “out there,” perhaps waiting, or hiding, and one need only look in the right places to find it. Certainly, this is how many of us respond to the desire for meaning in our lives. We spend our time in an anxious search for the right vocation, the right job, the right spouse, the right home—all in the hopes of finding meaning there.
