Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. - Mitch Albom

"He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children.

"I do not want to die," she whispered.

"You will not die."

"I want to be with you."

"You are.

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, to your community around you, to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.