We think that making sense out of life means we have in some way to fit the sequence of events into a rigid framework.
Life is meaningful to us if we can understand it in terms of fixed codes, rules and law. But if this is what “making sense out of life” means, we have set ourselves the impossible task of "making fixity out of flux."
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