The Meaningful Life is Storied
Nov 3 · 6 min read

Is your life a story? Are we literally the authors of our life? Should we be?
Jared Bauer from Wisecrack argues that we shouldn’t think in such grandiose terms, because to do so is to set ourselves up for disappointment. If we don’t receive the redemption we expect, we’ll think our suffering has been in vain. Instead, he suggests, we should come to terms with the pointlessness of our hardships.

