Moreover, what constitutes a meaningful life has very likely been changed by your recent close acquaintance with mortality. Death has a brutal way of clarifying to us what is meaningful. This clarity can lead to the discovery that our day-to-day activities are completely unrelated to the values we hold. Such a realization is frustrating and depressing and can lead to great upheaval if we are willing to change our day-to-day lives in pursuit of the newly realized values.
