What is the meaning of life?

In a hilarious
address at the University of Western Australia,
Tim Minchin humourously asserts that life is meaningless and offers advice on
how to fill it with meaning:

And in my opinion (until I change it), life is best filled by learning as
much as you can about as much as you can, taking pride in whatever you’re
doing, having compassion, sharing ideas, running, being enthusiastic. And then
there’s love, and travel, and wine, and sex, and art, and kids, and giving,
and mountain climbing… but you know all that stuff already.

Reflecting on my own attempts to fill life with meaning, I noticed a theme: I
have tended to consume more than I create. My excuse is that passively consuming
content is far easier than the act of creating something new: Listening to a
song on Spotify is easier than learning to play the piano. Binge watching a
series on Netflix is easier than climbing a mountain. Doomscrolling on Twitter
is easier than writing an essay.

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