According to John Cottingham, the Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, meaning in life comes down to two considerations. What is good and what happens when things don’t go according to plan. The search for something good takes on a multitude of expressions. For most, it is framed in moral terms—perhaps virtue, avoidance of bad behavior or living for something of higher meaning than oneself. However, the search for the good life can be the search for self-fulfillment. We might try to find something by which we can define ourselves by. We might start families, raise children, join a religion or buy into the latest spirituality offered…