The meaning of life A man took a glass of water and drank a swallow. What does it mean? He probably was thirsty. Probably he just wanted to taste it. Or maybe he wished to sleep and had to get a soporific but mistook. We don’t know anything about it so long as we don’t know what was before the swallow and what is after. To figure out the meaning of any activity we have to go outside of itself. If we look inside we can get only meaning of its segregate pieces. So the meaning of any activity is outside of itself. Therefore the meaning of life dwells outside as well. There is no way to find out the meaning of life inside the life itself. We can understand only meaning of our particular cases and everyday events.