The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was also a philosopher, and in a book of his collected sayings, he wrote: The universe is change; life is opinion. This statement may be interpreted in many ways, depending on the individual trying to decipher it. I feel that philosophy is a summary of life’s struggles put into one sentence, giving us insight to what life really means. As for myself, I can think of a few ways of what this statement means, why this statement is true, and how it applies to my life. A prominent ideology of what this statement means, is that the universe is forever changing and nothing stands the same. As for life, life is really your own opinion. How you should live your life, what choices you make, and the way you think, all