How to Live a Meaningful Life: What is Meaningfulness?
Image from: http://www.progressfocusedapproach.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Happiness-Meaningfulness.jpg What is meaningfulness? A meaningful life with a meaningful job, meaningful relationships, and meaningful passions is often prescribed as the means to a fulfilling life. Yet the idea of meaningfulness is a vague one- what gives an experience meaning? In order to really find what is meaningful, the concept just be consciously defined in order to align intentions and actions in the right direction. What does meaningfulness do? Meaningfulness leads to fulfillment. A meaningless encounter is unfulfilling. Why do certain experiences fulfill us? I think that fulfillment is the satisfaction of our deeper needs. Deeper needs differ with the individual, but common deeper needs such as trust, connection, and a sense of belonging seem to be among the more universal requirements. Fulfilling Encounters For example, Person A feels unfulfilled with her relationship with Person B because their i...