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What’s life about?
I didn’t have time for, or interest in, religion. I was working at an ad agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and my life was full of the good stuff: Money. Travel. Nice clothes and the perfect vacation home.
After New York, I moved to Los Angeles to work in Hollywood. There was nothing I didn’t have—or so I thought, until one night when some friends came over. We were sitting around eating, drinking wine, and having a good time, when the meaning of life came up. Questions like, Why are we here? And, What’s life all about?
Somehow, amid the haze of the wine and the intellectual (but not very deep) answers to these questions, a little light went on for me, and a thought popped into my head. You know why you’re here, it said. You learned why in Sunday School.
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