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and more than a few grains of for most, whether poor or rich or
proverbial salt. But, then again, something in-between. Elon Musk,
maybe that's what it takes to get into billionaire creator of fabulous
The Good Place. companies (i.e., Tesla, Space
Explorations Technologies and a new
Terrestrial Meaning
tunneling start-up), admits to being
In a terrestrial sense, of course, our under pressure all the time and
lives do have meaning, do matter, consequently suffering mood swings,
enormously, not only for ourselves terrible lows and unrelenting stress.
but to others and, in some cases, So, if you want to do better, take

perhaps to a whole tribe, a village quality of life enhancements very
maybe, hell, in some rare cases, to seriously.
the whole of mankind, in some way -
To boost quality of life, recognize how
for a while, at least. Think Paine,
extraordinarily unfortunate life really
Lincoln, Darwin, Ingersoll, Dawkins
is and knock yourself out working
and Harris - and the list of your own
passionately to make it less so.
heroes, past and present.
Accept the unwelcome reality that life

Terrestrial meaning must be the dew sucks is the norm, lower your
and rain, seed and soil, air and light expectations and resolve to pick up
of REAL wellness - the beating heart every jewel of joy that can be found
of being well that makes the human in your path (Ingersoll). The end
predicament less burdensome. really is near, not from some brain-
Terrestrial meaning might entail what dead End Times fundamentalist
Peter Singer termed a transcendent doomsday but simply because life is

cause, one beyond the boundaries of
the self. Viktor Frankl created an
approach to meaning linked to
mental wellbeing called logotherapy,
based on the premise that we are
motivated by a will to meaning, an
inner pull toward animating purposes

that make life worthwhile.
Nietzsche's way of capturing this
aspect of terrestrial meaning was to
say he who has a 'why' to live can
bear with almost any 'how.'

REAL Wellness and Quality of Life

Hobbes was an optimist: life is far
more dismal than simply 'solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' Life
is of low, low, very very low quality,