You Have to Give Life Meaning

Jean-Paul Sartre said, it's up to you to give life meaning. I think a lot of us chase meaning through what we do professionally, right? That we are needed, that we are contributing somehow to creating something. That's also how we get paid, and that's a very real measure of meaning. But the reality is meaning has nothing to do with what we do. It has nothing to do with what we're paid. But it has everything to do with who we are, what gives us true joy when no one's watching, how we contribute to society in a way that is not measurable in money or time or effort even, but the imprint that we leave upon the world being who we are in it. So for me, that is meaning, and that is what Jean-Paul Sartre talks about when he says, it is up to you to give life meaning, meaning it's up to you to be you.