Where Does Meaning Come From?

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For most of my life, I played baseball.

It’s where I derived meaning as a child, adolescent, and young man. Since retiring from the game, however, I’ve had to tango with meaning and life in previously unforeseen ways.

I learned that when you abandon the game that supported your entire identity, there’s recoil. You’ll feel lost and without meaning. Go figure?!

At the moment, I couldn’t quite put a finger on it, but four years removed, I now see when I stepped away from baseball, I lost a big part of what made me, me.

This entire idea of where meaning comes from is tough to wrestle with; it’s vague, hard to quantify, and changes. I’ve woken up and thought, “What the actual **** am I even doing?” more times than I’d like to admit.

But, through it all, the trials and tribulations are ultimately part of our quest for meaning. The ups and downs, the moments of elation and dismay, they’re all little pixels apart of the bigger picture we call life.

In Man’s Search for Meaning, Dr. Viktor Frankl says there are three areas where anyone can derive meaning: “in work, in love, and in courage.”

It’s beautiful, ain’t it?

Do something significant. Care for another person. And respond during difficult times. That’s the formula for a meaningful and significant life. And Dr. Frankl, I’d have to agree.

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Noah Cracknell

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