Should You Take Time to “Relax” Your Meaning of Life? - Deepstash

Should You Take Time to “Relax” Your Meaning of Life?

Meanings are an important part of living life well. What’s necessary is that, from time to time, you should be able to temporarily “relax” your meanings in life. 

These meaningness relaxations may be related to specific situations (i.e. how you think about your future career) or it could be more global (i.e. should you find meaning in ambition at all?).

The new meanings you get to may not be any better but they may help you see around obstacles that keep you from living a good life.

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