Meaninglessness or love one another

Sunday August 5th, Ecclesiastes 1 & 2: 2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." 12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Wow! This guy needs his meds, or then again, maybe he just has discovered what we all need to discover in life, that if all we are after is our own gain, what we gain is nothing. Descartes used the term, I think, therefore I am (Cognito Ergo Sum) What God calls us to is I Love, therefore I am (Amo Ergo Sum). It is not he unexamined life that is meaningless, it is the one which is lived only for the self. When you are done, all you have left is the empty shell of yourself. God calls us into relationships. We are called to love one another. John even connects it with the promise, this is what will make your life complete, the opposite of meaninglessness, to love one another as I have loved you.