The Meaning of Life.

"What is the best chess move in the world?" 

If you ask a master he will say:  There is no such thing as the best move, that depends on the situation in a particular game, and the nature of your opponent.

"The same holds for human existance.  One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.  Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.  Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.  This, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it."

 

Viktor E. Frankl.  Man's Search for Meaning.  1946.  Touchstone.  1984.  113.

Dr. Frankl, who invented "logotherapy" used to ask people: "Why don't you commit suicide?" He would use that answer to focus on helping people put broken lives back together. He had some good insights, but he missed the most important: This life was given to you by God, and bought again by Jesus Christ. It is not your life, and until you live it for Him it has no meaning; you have no particular task or assignment, and you are on the wrong side. Your master, Satan, finds you very expendable, and you are but a broken shell that cannot be put back together. You don't need to commit suicide: you are dead already because you refuse to die to self. Without the Logos, the self-differentiating unity of Christ there is no logotherapy.