the search for meaning

The heart-rending search for meaning can be just that -- heart-rending.

But if anyone were to unearth the meaning of anything, it might be meaningful and soothing to the heart, but would it be the true meaning? Really?

And of course any subsequent observation that "things have no meaning" is just another way of finding meaning, so meaning and no-meaning are pretty much the same thing, whatever taste in the mouth either may leave.

Meaning: This is that.
No meaning: This is not that.

Heart-rending is no joke, but is meaning really the solution to a wounded and yearning heart?