Do Better

I suppose it's kind of a childish question: What is the meaning of life? If you try to find an answer by reading philosophy you will encounter the response that it's not a real question because there is no answer that is good enough. What possible response could anyone provide to that question? Love? Art? Caring for others? Leaving the world a better place? Procreation to keep the species going? There is no answer that is satisfying. What are we left with? We look up at the night sky and feel the power of the universe and then we go to bed to face another day. That's about it. One answer could be to continually, up to the very end, strive to be a better version of yourself today than you were yesterday. If you were a fool yesterday strive not to be one today. If you were selfish yesterday, strive not to be selfish today. If you were lazy yesterday, strive to not be lazy today. 

Life has to be about becoming something better each day. The question becomes what constitutes better? I think each of us knows what better could be just as we generally know what doing the right thing means. We intuitively know the right thing to do. 

What am I saying? Listen to that inner voice and let it become the dominate voice, the one that knows you could be better. There is time for all things if we are wise with our time.