Freud, like Newton and Darwin, did not consider himself a philosopher but had a huge influence on philosophy, he believed that considering the question: "what is the meaning of life?" it's a waste of time. The question, he thought, is rather meaningless and has no definitive answer, asking it is a bit like asking what the color of time is (Mason). There are serious arguments that can be made in support of this view, especially if we agree that meaning is not something inherent in events, things and other processes and so on, but something we attribute to them (Mason). To think otherwise would imply attributing to them something that is a product of our intellect and consciousness. The meaning of X, whether X is an event, a thing, or a process, is really the connection or set of those connections that important to us (Mason). This is why the same events have different meanings for different people. For a Chinese, whether communist or anti-communist, the significance of the Korean War is that it marks the end of a century of national humiliation and the permanent threat of devastation through a long series of military defeats by foreign powers; for an American, the significance of that same war is that it put an end to attempts at expansion through direct militancy... middle of paper... most don't worry too much about what great minds have in mind, but they live their lives as best they can according to their own petty and senseless desires and notions (Metz): they cultivate their gardens, even if they have never heard of Voltaire, and whether they know that Freud existed or not, they do not waste their humble intellectual potential by trying to answer a question that has no answer (Metz). The rest is a senseless waste of time, “Primum vive, deindre philosophizing”, and if you spend too much time and effort philosophizing, you will have neither time nor energy to live, which involves earning money to pay the bills. As for the great eternal and fundamental questions, let's leave them to the professional philosophers whom society pays to do this specific job, as it pays plumbers to make pipes, scientists to explore nature, nurses to help the sick, clowns to entertain us.