I´ve recently have some thoughts about the meaning of life. Not the old "why are we here?" or "what are we here for?" and much less the even older "is there life after this?". More like a "what can i do to make this better?".
Take this journey with me.
Imagine your playing a game. A mmorpg. You have played this game for some time now. Lets say 5 years. In that ammount of time you created relations, you raised status and a carrer, friends and enemies, a family. Connections if you will. Now imagine the game will end in 24 hours. No more server to play on. What would you do? No turning back. No reboot. No rollback. What would you do?
I imagine you would contact your friends and family and tell them "soooo server is comming down ah? Lets have a party!" You would blow all your items and try to be the last one to global before the 60secs count goes zero. That would be an amazing goodbye!
Now imagine you said on global "Hey ppl! farewell party at town Whatever!!! All come!"... and noone would show up. Why? Cuz the life you had on that game, wasnt that friendly to all. And you tried to blow items but... you had nothing to blow!
Now what would you do?
You could go out, make a list of ppl you would like to apoligize and do it, but what if that list was too big? You only have 24 hours! And what if your whisper mode, was too busy with ppl that were doing the same to you?! You only have 24 hours! You wanted to blow some items but you dont have any! Sell some... but server is gonna die... who will buy? Go out and make some money hunting. In 24 hours?!
Well you get the picture. Now...
Imagine your collected enough to blow and have some fun with it.
Imagine your list of ppl that you want to apoligize to, is considerable shorter than the ones that want to do it to you.
Imagine lots of ppl will come to your farewell party and have fun together before the game ends.
How do you acomplish all this? I often say the following "i value my sleep". Most ppl dont understand it but it has a huge meaning. If i go to bed and can sleep, that means i had a good day and i didnt add anyone to my "list". If i go to bed and cant sleep cuz my conscience is complaining, that means it wasnt a good day.
So i try to sleep well. Every day. If others added me to the list, i see it as their problem and wait for their whisper someday. But i sleep good.
So play your game well and when the server goes down, you wont regret playing it.
That my friends, is the meaning of life to me.
This post is dedicated to someone that played her game to the perfection. Sleep well dear friend. You were the infinite perfection of how to play the game and im sure, everyone that came in contact with you, learned something about it, with you.

Zik