If a few of these photos annoy you with their lack of that means, I get it. Peter Gärdenfors, Ph.D., who’s a professor of cognitive science at Lund College, Sweden, says people are meaning-seeking animals.

“We’ve an unquenchable need to know how the world is linked. All cultures have myths and tales about how the universe was created and who has energy over pure phenomena,” he says. “In our trendy world, we even have scientific theories in regards to the elements that govern various kinds of processes. All people, in some unspecified time in the future, ponder the that means of life.”

“Psychologists discuss in regards to the will to energy and the desire to pleasure. However the will to that means is at the very least as sturdy. In his e-book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the doctor and writer Viktor Frankl writes, ‘Man’s seek for that means is the first motivation in his life and never a ‘secondary rationalization’ of instinctual drives. The that means is exclusive and particular in that it should and could be fulfilled by him alone, solely then does it obtain a significance which is able to fulfill his personal will to that means.’”