The Meaning of Life Humans have sought to discover the meaning of life for a very long time. We also have long mediated on the meaning of life. I frequently ask people what's the meaning of life? People have different views on this topic. For some, the meaning of my life is to grow as an individual and to contribute to other people in a meaningful way. Like volunteers and philanthropists. For others, Passion is what brings meaning and value to their life. Some of the people define the meaning as attain achievements probably around the time they feel the joy of success or the moment they needed it while a number of people believe that the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible and to be compassionate. On a personal scale, the value of life lies not in the glory of success, but in the pursuit itself, in the process of establishing and persisting faith. For instance, if I exerted all my energies to do …show more content…
Thomas Edison, for example, when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, there is a problem in the process of research---what filament material is safer and more durable. He had tested thousands of times with his assistant, using a variety of different materials: bamboo cotton, graphite, tantalum and so on, but all failed. Finally he found the most suitable materials---tungsten, and when people asked him whether the anterior thousands of test has been done in vain. Edison said: without the anterior thousands of times failure I couldn’t have found thousands of inappropriate filament materials. According to this we can see Thomas Edison is also a man who pays attention to the process, but this does not mean that he ignores the result. Because without the persistent pursuit of the results, there would be no electric bulb, there would be no current