Life, Happiness and Everything

I think I've figured it out.

For me.  You have to figure it out for you.

This is a question I've struggled with for a very long time.  Five decades plus. You see, like you perhaps I thought there might be a universal answer.  A key piece of knowledge I wasn't aware of, that upon learning would turn on this glow of wisdom and contentment.  I was wrong of course, in a manner anyway.

I was told, like you have been perhaps, by many people that the answer was this or that, taking this attitude or perspective, or pills, or drink.  I think that I've figured out that  the pursuit of the knowledge of life, happiness and everything isn't actually something that we can pass along to one another.  It's more like religion in the sense that some annoying person is always trying to shove their beliefs down your throat as some absolute and obvious truth.  To the recipient of that message who is without that same sense of conviction, faith or guile, those attempts seems putrid and self righteous.  They are rejected in the same manner we reject ideas from the supporters of the 'other' political party.

So, it's something we all have to determine for ourselves.  The destination - the understanding of the answer is meaningless unless you've made the journey to find it.  That in itself is beyond the cliche and verging into the profound. I'd argue that anyway as it took me so long to find it.

I don't plan on telling you what it is by the way, as its the answer to life, happiness and everything - for me. You have to figure it out for you.

Good luck in your journey and Godspeed as they say.