As the chapters of life gradually turn, how will our lives be remembered? Even if we have indeed tried our best to live, can that "effort" truly be understood? Is living for goals, for others, really the best way to live? The meaning of life is a lesson everyone must answer. Thomas Hillen Eriksen, a professor at the University of Oslo and a world-renowned social anthropologist, hailed as "the light of Norway," in 2016, after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and realizing his time was short, re-measured the beginning and end of life through the lens of "the meaning of life." Ultimately, he condensed it into seven words that differ from conventional wisdom, guiding us through a series of insightful, unexpected, and contradictory reflections--
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