The Meaning of Life
Around the middle of Leo Tolstoy’s life, he reached the conclusion that life was meaningless and there was no point in living anymore. He reached this point even though he was a famous author, wealthy, and had a large and loving family, and many friends. He was in excellent health, and in full command of his mental abilities. What happened to him? It became quite obvious to him that someday he would lose his life, and that his friends, family members, and wealth would all cease to exist. Though he was famous while alive, there would come a time when he would be forgotten, his works no longer read (this might take a long time but it would happen), and everyone who knew him would be dead, and all memory of him would be swept away. It will be as if Tolstoy, and all he worked to create, never existed. And of course, the same thing is true of all of us, except that almost all of us will have this happen much more quickly because we have left a much
