A short monologue by a single speaker distinguishing two ways people measure meaning in life: 'search' (actively asking why questions) and 'presence' (having satisfactory answers). The speaker explains that presence typically increases with age and lists examples of meaningful sources—having children, marriage, and belief in God—as ways people find significance.
Why does my life matter? Why does my life matter? If the answer is it doesn't, that's a problem, or I don't know, that's not good enough. People need to have a concept of why your life matters. So there's two ways to kind of measure where you are in this journey of finding meaning, of searching and finding for meaning. The two ways to do it are what's called search and presence. Search is how intensively you're looking to answer these why questions. You know, why do things happen the way they do? Why am I doing what I'm doing? And why does my life matter? But then how successful you are? Is your presence search and presence? Presence is I have answers that are satisfactory to me. As you get older, if you seek your presence, scores should go up. One is seeking an answer, and then presence is accepting and having something as satisfactory. And the great ways of answering that question are having kids and being married and believing that God loves you and all kinds of ways to have that significance. Question answered.
