Meaning

This past summer, I had the privilege of being in my brother's wedding. In return for gracing his wedding and being a hilarious brother/"better man" (like a best man, but there were two of us, and anyways, isn't the groom truly the best man of the day?), he gave me book and a Taco Bell gift card (which still has to be used). The book he gave me was A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller (author of Blue like Jazz). I recommend it. I read it once, and I fully plan to read it again. Two quotes in particular stuck out to me, and I'm going to share at least one of them here (one problem with stream of conscious blogging: forgetfulness). Here it is:

"I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking all movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is their lives are meaningless. I wonder if they've chosen to believe their whole existence is unremarkable, and are projecting their dreary life on the rest of us."
-Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years


Now, what am I saying about this? Well, I guess what I'm trying to pull from this is that, even when everything seems meaningless (as in, sometimes people are in a situation. I'm not trying to say that I think life is meaningless, etc. I'm trying to say that some people do sometimes think that) , maybe it's just because we're doing useless things, ya know? Maybe we're not living to our potential and we actually aren't doing anything worthwhile. In that case, it seems that there are two main options:
1. Assume that everything is meaningless just because we that's all we can see.
2. Try to do something meaningful.

I have to say that the second option sounds a lot better to me...

Another big thing is this: when we see other people projecting their meaningless life on everything else, I think it's part of our job as decent humans, friends, and Christians to help show them that life isn't meaningless. This is where Miller's metaphor breaks down. I think pretty much everyone would agree that there are meaningless movies (I mean, hey, they made a movie out of The Old Man and the Sea), but I don't think I would be okay saying that there are meaningless lives. I think every life has purpose and meaning.

And here's another problem with stream of conscious blogging. My thoughts are beginning to run dry (partially because it's late, partially because I started this post a few days ago, partially a few other things), so now I'm going to turn to you.

What do you think? Do you have additions to what I've said? Do you disagree with what I've said?
What say you. Have an opinion. Make it known. Talk to me. I enjoy it.