To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness...

One of the people on The 90-Day Challenge Call the other night spoke about "meaning." I went digging in my quote file for this one. It's an all-time favorite from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.

The book is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named  after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses. And they are all "speaking" from their graves.

George Gray
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me —
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictured not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire —
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
 
From Edgar Lee Masters’
Spoon River Anthology

"But life without meaning is... a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."

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Beautiful.
It's certainly more succinct than Viktor Frankl.

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