Forget About Finding Meaning in Your Life

The best way to find it is to stop looking

Robert Bateman
Sep 3, 2018 · 6 min read
Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash

A few years ago, I got sick. Death was a real possibility — at one point, I prepared for the worst. But after three weeks in the hospital, some life-changing surgery and a whole load of morphine, I emerged — stick thin, balding, and jaundiced, but alive.

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