Life is meaningless and that’s exactly why you can make it meaningful.
You can live your life only once, which is depressing, but it also gives you the choice to do what you want in this one big shot! All you think that matters to you, will be forgotten after you leave. All those moments in your life which you felt were the worse, won’t matter at all. All the mistakes you commit are not what you think they are. So why not do what you love this only life. But in this short period you can do wonders. Chase what you call ‘dreams’ and make them a reality. Just do what you love to do. If there’s no principle to the universe then why worry yourself with imbecile stuff? Life’s short mate, so make every second count.
看尼采加谬的书学习虚无主义，还没有解答的话看叔本华的书学习悲观主义
我们是否必须把意义和无限关联在一起，纵使我们知道人类文明乃至整个地球在宇宙的历史中不过是十分短促的一个瞬间。这个当然是见仁见智的，我个人的基本想法和你后面所说的体验说差不多，即人生是一种体验，任何事物最终都会消逝，而此刻我做些什么、想些什么、感受些什么，是我可以把握的，因此我会选择尽力增加我在人生中能够体验到的东西。
想在这里推荐一本存在主义的心理学书籍，叫做“追寻生命的意义”。这本书是奥地利犹太裔心理学家Victor Frankl写的。作者在二战中被关进奥斯维辛，近距离看到、自己也经历了作为人的所有基本需求被剥夺、人生价值与尊严被摧毁的极端状况。在这样的环境下，作者开始思考，人生的意义到底是什么？（除了运气），是什么让一些人可以在这样极端状况下活下去，另一些人却绝望地死去？如何面对这种（看起来毫无意义的）人生？
经过这些思考，作者得出结论，生命的意义有三种：创造作品、爱的体验、承受困境。其中最重要的是第三点：无论身处怎样的困境，人都拥有选择自身态度的内心自由，接受命运负载在肩上的重担，在困境中选择勇气、尊严，这也是一种实现生命意义的方式。我觉得这种看法，在今天这个过于看重自我实现的post-capitalist world里是一种回归生命本真的antidote.
Frankl的这个观点，和二十世纪的存在主义者所持的观点类似：世界纵然很荒谬，能让人生变得不那么荒谬的正是每一天、每一个时刻，我们作为人，在这个世界上做出的选择。正是这一个个的选择背后的责任感，给与了人生的意义。
Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom for all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation.
But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
我想最关键是寻找能让自己痴迷的东西 , 一个爱好通常可以最有效地把自己从虚无感里拯救出来。而且这个爱好最好是创造性的而不是消费性的，有building的活动会形成很好的正反馈。找到自己愿意倾注热情的东西，和这种东西互动，来源源不断地制造passion for life。
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.
找到一个一以贯之的人生意义可能是个伪命题
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
时时刻刻地按照自己的value去活，去面对生活中的挑战，可能就是人生的意义
书籍：Design Your Life & Design Your Work Life
