#LifeInATweet: Irish Examiner readers share the meaning of their lives

A new book on the meaning of life by UCC lecturer Dr Catherine Conlon got us thinking.

What does it mean to each individual to be here? What does their existence mean to them?

So we asked you, our readers, to send us your life in a Tweet using the hashtag #lifeinatweet. Just 149 characters to summarise your existence is no mean feat.

Some tweets were philisophical, some were whimsical but all of you did it with a great sense of the profound.

Here are our favourite contributions:

The meaning of life??? It is something so brilliant, so secret and hidden so well so Gay Byrne won't ever find it #lifeinatweet @UCC

— Rob M (@robmagee86) October 8, 2014

Without ritual & celebration, life is meaningless #lifeinatweet

— Keith Pascoe 🍉 (@Pascorskquai) October 8, 2014

Seek light, embrace shade and live in glorious colour #lifeinatweet

— Catherine Drea 🌿 (@foxglovelane) October 8, 2014

#lifeinatweet Love Many, Trust Few, Always Paddle Your Own Canoe!

— Sarah Geoghegan (@SarahGeoghegan4) October 8, 2014

@irishexaminer I don't see rejection as confirmation, I see it as motivation #lifeinatweet

— Brenda Dennehy (@brendadennehy) October 8, 2014

The meaning of life? Maybe being conscious of being alive... #lifeinatweet

— Claudia Sartori (@CMBSartori) October 8, 2014

@irishexaminer you've only got only three choices in life, give up, give in or give it all you've got #lifeinatweet

— Brenda Dennehy (@brendadennehy) October 8, 2014

The world is a book and those who do not travel only read one page... #lifeinatweet

— Sarah Geoghegan (@SarahGeoghegan4) October 8, 2014

And the best from the Examiner office:

Life is light - burn bright, burn strong, live right and live long #lifeinatweet

— Mark Evans (@shaelum) October 8, 2014

Be good, be kind .. be yourself #lifeinatweet

— Dolan O'Hagan (@dolanohagan) October 8, 2014

@whatrobdidnext @irishexaminer The meaning of life is to give life meaning #lifeinatweet

— Anna O'Donoghue 🌻 (@AnnaVDesigns) October 9, 2014

From the book author:

@irishexaminer Don't sit on the porch. Go out and walk in the rain.

— catherine conlon (@cconlon2) October 9, 2014

Dr Conlon will be in Waterstones Cork on Patrick St, Cork this Saturday October 11 for ‘Books Are My Bag’, an initiative by the Booksellers Association aimed at highlighting the importance of bookshops. She will sign copies of ‘Saol – Thoughts from Ireland on Life and Living’ from 2pm.

Share your #lifeinatweet with the Irish Examiner (and come along to meet Catherine Conlon in Waterstone's Cork on... http://t.co/Qp6rqRDHVV

— The Collins Press (@CollinsPress) October 8, 2014