#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

And the best from the Examiner office:

From the book author:

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.