Will's Sojourn to find the meaning of life
Journey along with Will. Discover what events in his life have brought him to this quest..
 
Will's writing, stories, and essays on the Meaning of life
 
The Letter writing campaign
I have embarked on a letter writing campaign to many people of the world asking them what they think the meaning of life is. Read the letter, and read the list of people I have sent it to. See their responses, if I get any. As of August 2, 2005 there have been no responses.
 
The Question in a bottle
I will be sending out notes in a bottle. You can keep track of how that is going here. Have I received any replies?
 
People
What do people say the meaning of life is? Learn more here
 
Books
What famous, and not so famous books are there about the meaning of life?
   
Movies
The meaning of life has been covered in movies. Learn more about them.
   
What Comes Next
Inquiries into what happens to us after we die.
   
More
the meaning of life has been explored in many different ways by many different people from music to poetry. Learn more about it here.
   
Quotes
Read quotes about the meaning of life
   
The Blog
Here you can get Will's daily thoughts on his quest.
   
The Bulletin Board
Join the Google group. Here you can read what other people have to say about the meaning of life. You can also post your own thoughts.
   
The Golden Rule:
There is one very important rule that must be followed in this quest. Find out what it is.
   
My Personal website where I have a lot of searching essays about my life and the meaning of it: 2007 - 2008 - 2009
   

 

Cabbage and the Quest

Are we meant to be something specific? And if given the chance can we be something more?
   

I have been spending a lot of time in the garden lately. It gives me a wonderful feeling. I gently remove the weeds. (I feel they have the right to life too, but this is my garden.) It is a small garden but I have a nice variety of plants and vegetables.

I am not a big fan of cabbage but I planted half a dozen cabbage seeds just for the fun of it. Most of them took very well and after a few weeks it looked like they were ready to be harvested. They had a beautiful round and full shape.

But I just couldn't bring myself to harvesting them. I was just enjoying their presence in the garden. Besides, if I harvested them I probably wouldn't eat them -they would just go bad. So I let them stay and something happened.

Within a week of me judging them to be ready they started to sprout in a crazy way. They unbunched and shot stalks toward the sky. These stalks climbed to three feet high! And at the very top they flowered.

I was shocked. I didn't know cabbage would do this. After all I had never seen a cabbage like this in the grocery store. What the heck happened?

Then a thought struck me

The cabbage did what it was meant to do. Most cabbage never gets the chance but my cabbage got the chance so it took it -with gusto.

What am I getting at here?

I am saying that most of my life I have lived like a normal cabbage. I did the school/college/career thing. I was a good cabbage. But now my life has changed. I am looking for the meaning of life. It is my quest. I am being and doing what I was meant to be and do.

Like the cabbage, I am grateful for the chance, and hopefully I will grow tall and bloom.