We don't need to measure our notions of happiness or progress against imagined universal constants for those concepts. They don't exist. Even the typical notions of success change with time, context, and fashion. We do not need to prove that our ideas of identity or purpose are watertight in some objective, evidence-based sense. That isn't how meaning works. Meaning is a story, and act of creation and interpretations, and for human beings meaning is at least as important as fact.
-Jarod K. Anderson, Something In The Woods Loves You
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