What is the meaning of life? What does it mean to you? What do you search for? Love? Power? Excitement? Food? You are the writer of your own novel. I've always felt my life is what I believe it to be. I can fall under the spell of my own belief. If I believe my failure is because my story will eventually end in triumph and I'll use it as a stepping stone to achieve my ultimate goal to become a sumo champion then I believe my life is an underdog story, to be general. But on the other hand if I view my failure as a tragedy, where if it would never have occurred, I could have reached the pinnicale of my profession, then I believe my life is a ballad of bad luck. Again this is general but my point is, that what ever meaning we attribute to our life is the meaning of life. For some it may be to have children and for others it may be to travel the world. Whether those things happen or not the eventual outcome will be to either give up on life, or find a new reason to continue living. Many people die long before their body does, now I don't know if this is a quote but if it's not I'm claiming it, "the meaning of life is to find a reason to live" knowing that if that reason were to ever go away, you would have to search for new meaning. It's a bit tragic I guess, but hey "ups and downs smiles and frowns"-snoop dogg