Many people have a wondered or asked themselves whether their lives is meaningful one or whether it has a purpose, including myself. Some people believe that God has a specific plan for each one of us, that a life without God is a meaningless one. That if God did not exist, we would find no value or commands that legitimize our lives, and would have only the meaning we give to life. But how does one begin to give meaning to their lives? What should a "meaningful  or life-well-lived even consist of? Does a one's life require God in order for it to have meaning? These are all questions that we've already or will ask ourselves at a point in our lives. In his article "The Summoned Self," David Brook writes about two different ways that people view their lives. The first way to think about your life he says, is the Well-Planned-Life and the second way is the summoned life. David Brooks' describes the Summoned life as an entirely different way of thinking, from an entirely different perspective. In this style of thinking one accepts situations based on the circumstance and context it. Brooks writes that "life isn't a project to be completed; it is an unknowable landscape to be explored. Brooks basically is saying that we may know the concepts of our lives but cannot really give meaning to it until we've completely engaged in it, because one can't look into the future to predict what diseases, wars and other natural effects that may loom. Therefore, the most important feature for a person who practices the summoned life should be the commitments that anticipate his or her choices. "Commitments to family, nation, faith or some cause. These commitments defy the logic and benefit, investment and return. A person living the summoned life always thinks of the most useful social role before them because the "individual is small and the context is larger. In a summoned life, life has meaning when the self dissolves into a larger cause or purpose. Todd May also writes on the meaningfulness of life. In his article "The Meaningfulness of Lives," May seeks to exploit the concept of meaning from Satre's judgment that "Without God, our lives are bereft of meaning  by making three arguments. His first argument is that meaningful life is distinct from a happy life or morally good one. He uses Susan Wolf's quote from "Meaning of Lif