What is the meaning of life?

Iain Robertson
2 min readSep 27, 2021
Art display, Beijing National Theatre. Photograph by Iain Robertson

Life is complicated. There is no doubt about that. It is a big messy feck of a thing, and it hangs around you until you or your body opts out. The game is about keeping it running until your body is the thing that makes the choice. But the answer is why? Why keep it running?

Why got to the effort to get through a lifetime of years for it all to end in darkness. Is that what happens, black. Nothing?

So, the big question remains, what is it all about? This life thing.

That is the age-old question that has been explored in every single way known. Scholars the world over have been chewing this big question over throughout the centuries. There are millions of words written about the meaning of life, and the search will continue.

People from every faith and corner of the earth will continue to debate and harangue each other over the elusive answer.

From what I have read, nothing sticks to a cohesive explanation.

But I think I have cracked it.

It is not the number forty-two. That’s too complicated for me, and I have managed to simplify it further…

If you want the answer, check in to my next blog, and I will give you that profound clarity of the meaning of life.

I will sum it up in one word.

Originally published at http://getrichslowlylife.com on September 27, 2021.

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Iain Robertson

I live, love and work in Beijing in China and I write about leading teams and wrestling with personal development while I stumble my way to financial freedom.