I detest this framing, that life, which is all we have, the experience of it, somehow isn't enough. The living, that's the meaning. There's nothing else, get what you can out of it. Do it all. Wring the sponge.
You know how some people have skeletons in their closet(s)? When the plumber came to my house today and needed access to the back of my shower I found this in my closet. @billyjoel