Meaning is felt

Friday 23 June

Meaning is felt when your friends or family value you even when things don’t go well or when they don’t agree with your beliefs or the choices you’ve made. Within limits of course. If you mass murder your class mates you’re on your own. Meaning is also felt when you are able to use your strengths to serve others. Or when you are able to lose your sense of self, in reflection, in nature, in work, in art, etc.

— Note made after reading an interview with Emily Esfahani Smith