Interesting conversation

Last night I was talking to an old buddy of mine, (actually an ex-boyfriend to be technically precise) John, whom I hadn't seen in like two years. We were talking about the difference between our lives then and now, and I thought it was interesting that we both came to the same conclusion about life. A few years back, we were both in a place where we were trying to strip life down to it's bare essentials and really find it's inherent meaning. In the time since then we both came to see that life has no intrinsic value other than it's potenial. A meaningful life is one in which you do meaningful things. In short, life has no meaning except what we invest into it.