Post Written By Eugene Morgan
“Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.”—Peter Elbow
Meaning is the result of everything we have experienced. Meaning is created when we go through experiences that impact our lives the most. We remember events in our lives that altered our lives in a meaningful. We are never the same after an event that alters our lives and changes us for the rest of our lives. When 5, 10, 20 or even 30 years have passed from an event, we remember the event as though it just happened yesterday. It becomes more meaningful as time passes and when we look back on these events we tend to revisit the feelings, the images, the smells, sensations, etc. We’re reliving what took place a long time ago in a meaningful way.