"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix
It is no surprise that I would choose a Jimi Hendrix quote to explain what I believe that he thought was meaningful. In many of his songs and the things he used to say, when you get down to it, was about peace for all. I think that for him, this is his meaning of life. Although he valued his music and guitars a lot, at the end of the day, equality, peace, and passion for life was something that he defined living life as. Personally, I agree. Our history is known for so much destruction in the name of power. But like Jimi said in the quote "the power of love" can lead to the great things in life for all of humanity and even animals and plants (just the world and ALL of its inhabitants in general). When humans learn to think with their hearts instead of their fists, there wouldn't be so much death, poverty, and just overall unnecessary struggles and devastation. In The Stranger, Meursault most likely wouldn't agree with this meaning of life. Although, honestly, I think he probably wouldn't care. He just seems to go with the flow of things with no real emotion attached to the things he gets into. It isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just that for Meursault, the meaning of life has no meaning for him. And so it makes me think of an earlier blog "The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living". For Meursault, it is just the way he is to not question his life and to just accept things as they come. From that, in the end, we find out that his utter acceptance of things that most people would hesitate at participating in, leaves him with the death penalty. Although meaning is completely subjective, Meursault wasn't able to experience the meaning for most people because of his "go with the flow" attitude throughout the story.
