Can you define what is meaningful? As things do as they do...... change. For the current action is meaningful today but by tomorrow it would seem pointless.
If your goal is to do meaningful tasks then when and where do you place your marker for meaning?
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Meaningful to whom? Yourself? Society? Humanity? The universe? God?
Maybe that's too much. But, if your actions today make this world a better place tomorrow, is that not meaningful?
You can only go for things that are meaningful for yourself. It is like having ideals. You can set ideals for yourself but never expect them of others. This only creates great pains for yourself later on when they are not met. Why? The reason is you can’t change others only yourself. If they decide to adopt the same ideals as you then it works but outside of that, ideals are just a one-man show.
In the end how do you find something, which is meaningful to you?
You don’t know how tomorrow will go so basing meaningful actions on that is not helpful. If you build up something that is good and tomorrow the next person destroys it then do this make your efforts meaningless?
So deciding how meaningful an action is biased on the current moment has more options. Doing what you can right now to make your actions meaningful is the only thing that you can control. You also have to be able to let go. To put everything in to making something a success and still be able to let it go in the end. Since all things must end some time.
That's a lot of pressure.
I could do something meaningful right now, but I think I'll go take a nap instead.
When it comes to ideals for other people, I set them so high that they will never be met. Then, I'm neither surprised nor disappointed when people fail to meet my ideals. That is only to be expected.
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