After anything you do, the best art is still the art to live a life you want. The art to live is something more than to survive, because to live means to enjoy, to want to be here.
Everyone needs some motivation and something to live for. That may change often and it doesn't have to be something you live for all your life. In fact, it doesn't have to be something; it can be someone, some thought, feeling or a goal. But for me, these examples are very different from the meaning of life. I don't find the meaning of my life to get that girl (even if i really love her), but i find the meaning (and purpose) of my life to simply enjoy my years here in the world.
I want to spread a general thought saying that the art of life is not about not failing, nor about some tasks where you can fail or succeed. If we get back to some girl, we can say that getting her is some long-term (or short-term?) goal, which we can either fail or success.
If we say that we succeed, we still haven't won the game of life - she may still change her mind, or we may change our mind, even if it seems impossible now. This is not a reason to not be happy if you get her, but it is a reason to not think that you just won your whole life.
Similarly, if we fail, we can't think that we just lost the game of our whole life (even if it feels like we just did), because there will always be more opportunities. It doesn't have to be now (in fact, i think that it shouldn't), but if we move onto something else (that isn't meant as some other girl), we can still live a happy life and win the game at least for a while. This game has one big advantage over all the other games; you choose, when you win.
We generally can be winning the game of life, if we call it like that, when we are happy. The fact, that we are just winning doesn't mean we will win, nor that we'll lose. So the thing we must focus about is not winning, but enjoying the game, no matter if we win or lose.
In fact, we can't win nor lose.
- Olfounder
15th April 2026