Thoughts on life: What is really the meaning of life? Still trying to figure it out, after nearly 46 years of life. I thought I knew when I was younger, until I was about 30. Turned out everything I’d been taught my whole life and tried to share with others was a lie. Are there good things about life? Sure there are. We have a beautiful Earth and creatures that live on it. Sunsets and sunrises are manificent. Twilight. The love of a wonderful husband and daughter. Until now, we’ve been blessed with a good job, food to eat, a car that still runs well and is finally paid off. We have our wonderful pets. Cloudpaw, our female dog, happy and full of love. Jinxy, our female cat, who is so affectionate to me. And four fish. Still…there are many days when I feel just like the meme I saw not long ago (edited, because the one I saw used a much cruder word, which I don’t like: “The three stages of life. 1. Birth. 2. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS??? 3. Death.” I also don’t like that this page won’t let me use proper writing grammar. There’s supposed to be 2 spaces after the ends of sentences and after colons. It won’t let me put more than one, which is very, very frustrating for me. Anyway, I was trying to say that I just don’t get life. Why do we have to suffer so much pain, with only brief moments of happiness or joy? Why can’t we have more good friends? My husband is the most wonderful man, and best friend. I have other friends, but they all live in other states, and most eventually leave anyway. I don’t understand how there are so many people in this world who are so calloused and insensitive when it comes to friendships. They move on in life, to better places for them…which is great, and I’m happy for my friends successes. What makes me mad is that they can move on without even attempting to say goodbye or even trying to contact you after they leave, effectively throwing away the friendship as though it meant nothing to them, even though they pretended to be your good friend for years. Yeah, life sucks much of the time, like Jacob from Twilight said: “Life sucks, and then you die.” Sorry, folks. Just had to get that off my chest.