We were so happy and carefree
We would laugh and not overthink questions
We were just kids
We grew a lot since then
Don't you remember?
I'm looking back into the past
Nothing was serious
Everything was a joke
The question was asked
What is the meaning of life?
Acting like our childish selves
Answers had come
The answer to the meaning of life
Food, a number, nothing too serious
Everything was simpler back then
No overthinking or analyzing
To take over our lives
What if I brought the question up today?
How would our answers be different
From who we were back then?
What is the meaning of life?
To be happy?
To be successful?
To be who we want to be?
To wish the same for the next generation?
Everyone has a different path in life
Yet in the end
We all have the same basics
Of what life is
First comes birth
Then comes education through schooling
That takes the first twenty years of our lives
Perhaps even longer or shorter than that
Then comes getting a job
Studying for so many years
Only to be able to get a good job
Working for so many years
Only to be able to have money
That's the only way to support ourselves
We work for money so we can live
Then create a family of our own
Teaching our children what our parents told us
Then after that comes retirement
And then in enough time
Last comes death
Cycles keep on repeating
Same thing over and over
And over and over and over
Let's face it
Down to the simplest of basics
Life is pretty boring
Deep down it must be
That every average and mediocre person
Is the same
How can significance, purpose, and individuality
Come into play
When we are all after the same things
In this game that every human plays
The game of life?
Overthinking things through
Makes our sanity wear thin
It's never good to know too much
Some people have become rebels
To this game of life
Forcing us to get to work and start a new family
Some people have realized
What is the point of living till we're old
If we're not big and famous
Then isn't life the same for everybody?
Isn't it sad?
More and more people have
Made these thoughts of realization
Come into their brains
Affecting their ways of thinking
Their ways of how to perceive society and the world
Some people have rebelled or are thinking of it
If the meaning of life is only to
Work to get money in order to support yourselves
Then why wait?
Why wait to cut it entirely?
Why wait so long to die?
Forced standards for new generations
Getting stricter and stricter
For each new generation
Life is hard now
It's hard to pay for even the simplest of things
Cheaply paid jobs with higher education and apartment prices rising
People in their younger years
Have to struggle so much
The number of adolescents in despair are rising
More people are finding out that
In the end nothing really matters
What are the chances of making an everlasting impact on the world
That would still affect the world in
A hundred years, a thousand years, a million years?
Nobody will be left to remember us in a million years
And on top of that
We're all just one person out of 7 billion
We won't really change the world, will we?
Isn't it so sad?
More people are rebelling in this game of life
We were all forced to participate in
By ending the game sooner
More people are killing themselves
Isn't it sad that how things are run with all these ridiculous standards
There is nothing that can change that?
Once you realize too much about human life
It's difficult to find a point, a reason, to actually
Want to stay alive
Once you realize it
Think too much about it
You can only join us
And become a rebel
What is the meaning of life?
To work for money and somehow be satisfied
With doing the same thing week after week
For forty plus years?
To marry and start a family
In order to spread what your parents and mentors have taught you
To the newer generations?
To be happy with things we are forced to do
In order to be alive and well?
What is the meaning of life?
I don't think there is a true meaning left
In other words
There is none
Because in the end
We are all one of the same
We're only human
And we're all after one thing
Purpose
So perhaps I think that
The meaning of life is to
Find our own purpose
In order to stand out in the crowd
Because we all aren't the same
We're all different individuals
Finding your purpose
Makes you find yourself for who you really are
What is the meaning of life
For me
For you
For humanity?
There is none left in this world anymore.
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