“So, the meaning of life. Who really needs that anyway? I mean, isn’t it just enough to have a chance to live? Did you know that the chances that you even exist are basically zero? So, the chances alone that you are here are already so abysmal, does it really take some sort of meaning for you to make the most of the short time you have?

I mean, sure, you could probably argue that way that living live to the fullest is the meaning of life itself but I just don’t see why you need someone to tell you that. Let’s say that there wasn’t any meaning to life, or at least not that you can tell, would that mean that you would just kill yourself right now? If there isn’t any meaning to life why not kill everyone around you and yourself?

Or, okay, let’s say that’s too morbid for you — which I would totally understand — but you still don’t know what the meaning of life is. What could you do about it? You could, like you all have done, come to an expert, or at least someone you perceive as an expert, and have them tell you what the meaning of life is. But then what, let’s say that I could tell you, does that mean you then have to restructure your entire life to fit it to this supposed meaning? Or even if you know that you should, that you would? And if you wouldn’t want to change your life anyway, then why ask for knowing the meaning of life anyway? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to not know in the first place then? Or is it this innate sense of curiosity, this desperate need to know that drives this search? You just want to know, so that if it does fit into your view of life you can feel validated, and if it doesn’t you can just tell yourself that this isn’t it, this isn’t the meaning of life anyway.

So why not take this speech as your inspiration to just find, to build your own meaning of life, to make it fit exactly what you have in your head and inside you already anyway.“