The Meaning Of Life

In the spirit of almost one year of blogging I have reposted my very first post

The meaning of life, for me is a constant wonder. Life ebbs and flows much like the ocean. Some days calm prevails, while other days the sea is rough and dangerous, as is life.

Yet, even with the unpredictability of the ocean, humans will still set forth across its surface.

Therefore, if life can be paralleled with the ocean, then that means that all living beings have set out across its surface. Hence, making us all explorers, first meaning of life is to EXPLORE.

Now, if were all explorers, traveling across the surface of life, sooner or later someone is bound to get into somebody else’s way. So now, to keep things running smoothly, we explorers must, at some point, compromise. Second meaning of life is to COMPRIMISE.


So we’re exploring, we’re compromising across life.

Well, as is human nature, from time to time, when the random bump- ups that occur on the surface of life happen, two explorers often decide to explore together and they love. Third meaning of life is to LOVE.

And, also, as is human nature, two explorers sometimes are forced to decide to take separate courses. Sometimes they never pass ways again therefore they must accept. Fourth meaning of life is to ACCEPT.

And, as is in all things out here on the surface of life, there are things not known to any explorer. This fact makes us wonder. Fifth meaning of life is to WONDER.

So here we are EXPLORING, COMPROMISING, LOVING, ACCEPTING, and WONDERING. Where does it get us after all is said and done?

As we explorers head toward the end of our journey, what do we have to show from all our wonderings? Well a LIFE.

So with that, I say, the true meaning of life is just to LIVE.


By: James Berry

Winter’s patient wait

I wandered in the woods today

Until my thoughts slowed down
Until my ears felt frozen
Until my heart was at peace

I wandered in the woods today
Until my spirit demanded that, I stop

I sat on a rock today and looked……

At crisp blues and blinding whites
That filtered through the canopy
Mildly warming me
In a patch work of sunlight

I leaned on a tree today and heard…..

The mournful sigh
Of gentle winds as they
Navigated through pine boughs
Passing me,
On an endless migration

I relaxed in the leaves today and felt….

The melancholy silence
Found in a bright winters day
That hangs on our hearts
And Insulates us
As we lament autumn’s passing

I looked around me today and breathed…..

In the sent of patience
As it sits and waits
In a cocoon of dormancy
Its presence only revealed
In the unnoticed twirl
Of a leaf
Drifting to the ground
To wait
For Spring

Drowning Into Life

I see the light, fractured and bent
As it pierces down from the surface
The surface, far above me
Oscillating with life’s unseen flow

Still the light is so far away
Seemingly, as unattainable, as the stars

I jumped through the surface
Of my own accord
I jumped and was immersed

Panicked for breath
Panicked for survival
I raged in frustration

I struggled to reach the light
Thrashing and grasping
For a safety line

Finding only an ethereal strand

I became angry
And lost control
I became defeated
And began to sink

I prepared for my last defeated breath
And glared towards the surface
And realized
I could breath……………………..