Well, I was fucked.

How was I supposed to give a grand speech on the meaning of life when I didn’t have any clue what I even thought about it myself?

“Professor?”

Professor Eli Alcindor. Professor of Philosophy at Springfield University.

I didn’t even think *he* was qualified to tell someone what life was about. Let alone me, a nerd with zero qualifications.

I thought for minute, and I remembered something from my childhood. Rankin & Bass’s 1977 animated adaption of “The Hobbit”.

This movie was surprisingly amazing and deep. The first song in the soundtrack was “The Greatest Adventure”, the lyrics of which are below.

“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

Today and tomorrow are yet to be said

The chances the changes are all yours to make

The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is there if you are bold

Let go of the moment that life makes you hold

To measure the meaning can make you delay

It's time you stop thinking and wasting the day.

A man who’s a dreamer and never takes leave

Who thinks of a world that is just make believe

Will never know passion

Will never know pain

Who sits by the window

Will one day see rain.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

Today and tomorrow are yet to be said

The chances the changes are all yours to make

The mould of your life is in your hands to break.”

- Glenn Yarbrough

And suddenly, I knew what to say.

“It’s time you stop thinking and wasting the day. Life is what you make it. There will be mountains tall and valleys deep, but you will get where you want to be eventually, whether you realise your goal now or not.”