The Only Post You’ll Ever Need to Find Your Meaning

Lukas Schwekendiek
6 min readOct 10, 2024
Photo by Ariel Tang on Unsplash

Fast forward to the end of your life.

At the end of everything, when your life is in it’s final breaths, what lesson do you think mattered most?

What defined your life?

What sentence do you want written on your tombstone?

How do you want to be remembered?

What do you want to be remembered for?

Think about these questions and feel the answer.

When you do you will quickly realize one simple truth:

There is nothing that you should do that makes life meaningful, for your answer will be very unique to you.

There is no perfect answer, no golden rule, and no ideal path to meaning.

It is all on what you value, what you derive meaning from and what matters to you that will define your purpose and your life.

At the end of it all, what matters is whether you followed those things that mean a lot to you or not.

Following someone else’s ideals only works randomly.

Do not gamble your life on what someone else says is good for you.

Asking the question of what you “should” do will lead you to a path that isn’t yours, which has about a good…

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Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"