People are such amazing creatures with a constant ability to surprise themselves and those around by inventing newest and the most incredible objects, processes and creations in their tangible forms ... but when it comes to discovering the actual meaning of life ... innovation is not needed... the answer is simple: "the meaning of life [...]

People are such amazing creatures with a constant ability to surprise themselves and those around by inventing newest and the most incredible objects, processes and creations in their tangible forms … but when it comes to discovering the actual meaning of life … innovation is not needed… the answer is simple: “the meaning of life is to give life meaning”

 

How? If life was solely about one thing it would be only one-dimensional without any connectivity to other areas, it would be sad at the end and pretty much limited. Life is a full spectrum of experiences and knowledge areas and it is down to us to select which areas we would like to engage in and what criteria we focus on on the journey to defining life lessons and its meaning… 

Will Hunting – the main character of this American 90s production- played by Matt Damon – is on the journey to discover the meaning of life by abandoning the strict focus on education as his core life essence but expanding his views on love, faith, trust and experiences through practice rather than theory. Will is going through a self-discovery journey based on his life filled with education to the level there is no awareness or practical grounds for other life areas. “Good Will Hunting” is a prerequisite production for actually understanding what life is about and how strict restrictions and rules can make life miserable and full of sorrow.

There is the eternal beauty in the form of words, images and sounds translated from verbal to non-verbal forms of expressions. Books, graphs, data, tables, numbers … these all touch one dimension of life … translating practice into theory, categorising and segmenting. What about the other side? The actual practice? Is life more beautiful in Shakespeare language? Well, definitely yes on screen and paper … but in real life to provide meaning and sense it has to equate to experience.  Shakespeare helps us to understand the experiences that we have the chance to be part of.

Just as life goes on and we are being exposed to various life experiences, bad and unwanted events happen, but it’s in those moments where we actually realize what we did wrong and whether we grow from it, or remain in self-pity and remain the same forever or get up and rise above all the failures