Pushing Boulders up a Hill

The Meaning of Life

“I intend to live life, not just exist.” George Takei

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a Star Trek fan.

Apart from anything else, the episodes are full of quotable content, even some of the episode titles.

Is there in Truth no Beauty?

Dagger of the Mind For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky

Where silence has lease

Future Imperfect

…. to list a few.

Some episode titles have clear literacy origins, The Conscience of King, for example.

But I digress.

It was the George Takei quote that drew my attention recently.

“I intend to live life, not just exist”

Seems to me that this is a great personal mission statement.

It also caused me to reflect on how I sometimes feel I am “just existing”.

What’s that all about?

If my mind is solely focused on living to work or locked into a one-dimensional cycle of worry-work-exhaustion-sleep-wake-worry-work …., then I am just existing.