I didn't mean to say don't drink - just trying to not actively encourage when possible.

I know this will sound cheesy or weird - but the key to a life of meaning, is (irrespective of time) the merging of free-will with destiny.

See many religions preach one or the other - even the human mind is conditioned to perceive them as opposites with very little wiggle-room.

This is the fundamental flaw that leads to a life without meaning and whether or not it is done so intentionally is debatable.

It's not about one or the other, it's about the interaction of both - you have free-will to choose your own destiny every step of the way.

As Terrence McKenna once said "It is the union of imaginations, through understanding and into nature" - turning something from a union of ideas from yourself and others into a physical reality, (an act which may have often defied our expectations of reality, but never defied it - an important point many forget).

Essentially, one picks a goal they know is actually possible, whatever it is that means the most to them. The imaginary reflection you see of yourself in the future and what they solved.

From there, every earnest effort is met with a mixture of struggle and success (as is reality) - however, you may begin to notice small things, all around you had never before noticed. Puzzle pieces of information, conversation, start to fit together - and your free-will, creates your own destiny and then you fulfill it. Or don't.

"To be or not to be - that is the question"

or perhaps "Do, or do not - there is no try"

Just like the white-jumpsuit saboteur I can offer no tangible proof but I'll tell you fusing beliefs of synchronicity with spirituality and nonchalance - the universe becomes a moving ocean. You ride on the waves - not just where-ever and in whatever direction you want.

Blessings.