> What do you mean, "working for you"? Do you consider a meaningful life instrumental in relation to something else, which we have to conclude is meaningless or

> What do you mean, "working for you"? Do you consider a meaningful life instrumental in relation to something else, which we have to conclude is meaningless or it would be the meaning of that life? I mean "are you happy with how your life is unfolding". Some people need meaning, some don't. It's up to them. I don't care if other people don't have the same needs as me. I only care that they reflect upon what they need in life and try to either fulfill that needs or try to abandon them if they can't. Having unrealized needs is making us humans unhappy. We can either realize them or try to remove them from our "I need this" list. > There's a huge distance between the person Augustine described in his confessions, notably book 2, about the pear tree, and the kind of 'choosy' personality you describe here. Are you really, really sure about which kind is preferable to you? Sorry, didn't read Augustine, Marcus Aurelius Meditations was my book of choice (when I finally read it, most of what he wrote was pretty evident for me, so I describe myself as self-inflicted stoic, but not a TRUE stoic).