meaning of life

Meaningless 

Life is meaningless 

Our definition of what makes life meaningful 

Changes through the years 

It started with making sure our basic needs are meant 

Food, Shelter, Warmth 

The meaning changed over time to 

Work, Money, Supporting a family 

And now our meaning has changed to 

Making something with our life, Love, and success 

I don't know what the true meaning of life is 

Does it remain meaningless or is it an expansion of our basic needs? 

Is life meaningless because we have time to care for the answer 

Or did we ignore the question for too long? 

All I do know 

That with you life is a little less 

Meaningless 

Author's Note

My AP Lit class just finished reading Death of a salesman by author Miller, and my English teacher left us with the question with how the meaning of an fullied life or a meaningful one has changed for the man or for humanity and I've been thinking about it all day

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

again, your surprise endings are so apt.
with someone else, with love life is certainly less meaningless...relationship with friends and loved ones are most important....success and what we accumulate should take a back seat, unfortunately for too many...it does not...and we forget why we really exist.
nicely expressed,
j.

[Lydia Waldock]

thank you. Willy tried his best but was to caught up in his idea of a perfect life because his life was failing. I love how Arthur Miller was able to express the changing of what a meaningful life. and although I dont know what my life means or where i am going or what im doing it helped open my eyes to know that different meanings for people is that none of us have the right way

[SeaJay]

I think the meaning of life is what we bring to it as well as take from it. I was pleased ,however, that your ending had a happy note to it and I didn't feel that you were feeling so lost and alone. *Peace*Light*Love*Laughter*

[Lydia Waldock]

Definitely!! Thank you for the review!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory you seem to have replicated here as you explain the way in which having a 'meaningful other' changes things for the better.
Third stanza should read "It started with making sure our basic needs are met"
And author Miller is an author called Arthur Miller!

[Lydia Waldock]

Thanks!! That was my goal was going off of the hierarchy Also I jit’s realized I spelled his name wrong oops

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and yes, poor Willy Loman...and what he tried to pass on to his sons and how the message got misconstrued...
meaningful means different things to different people.