Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d …
What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress towards some unspecified goal – the engineering and production of more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always – just to live and be with other people?
— Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Page 161)