April Raintree: A Meaningful Life

5: A meaningful life is a life that has greatness. What defines greatness however is what changes from person to person. Life is ever changing some would say to have a meaningful life you must find the meaning to life. The meaning of life in my eyes can have many different faces. The meaning is ever changing to whichever body you’re in. There could be thirty people in the room and twenty nine meanings of life.
In Search of April Raintree aboriginal identity is often questioned in a very white modern capitalistic society. April and Cheryl are saved from alcoholic parents and placed in an orphanage till they get placed in several foster homes. During these times they are not brought up in the old native ways. Instead they are introduced into …show more content…
This varies from culture to culture. Could a plant perhaps have a meaningful life? In aboriginal society yes. Could a planet have a meaningful life? Again yes the views of aboriginal culture actually have a stronger scientific explanation then religions that came from overseas. What about our great sun that we orbit around, could it too have a meaningful life? So in other words could everything have a meaningful life? Even things that we do not consider even being alive day to day a dictionary perhaps. Does it get a full life? Until its pages can no longer handle being opened and splits in two. That computer or IPhone you carry around with you does it have a meaningful life or does it suffer premature water damage and goes to waste? Can you have a meaningful life even though it is short? Can you have a meaningful life if it is long and dull? I think anything can have a meaningful life when you find out the power you have or the power you can become and you strive to do everything that you can. So what if your life span is only fourteen minutes do you do what you’re meant to do for those fourteen …show more content…
Perhaps you don’t live up to your full potential at the end of the day, can you still say you had a meaningful life? What happens if your answer is no? You have not lived a meaningful life. Does that hold you back? Can you still push on and ignore whatever told you in the first place that you have not lived a meaningful life. These are all other factors that can halt you in the meaningful life that we all so desire. Perhaps you were the first thing to not live a meaningful life maybe it was meaningful that you were the very first. Perhaps you discover the greatest scientific invention of all time and you don’t live a meaningful life. In the end it is up to you to live a meaningful