A quote from a letter to myself three years ago

Excerpt from a letter I wrote to myself at the age of 16 during my first trip to Israel:

My time spent in Israel has forced me to reflect. I have not come up with answers for my questions. In fact quite the opposite. I am so confused now about the deeper meaning in life. But this trip is indeed my start to my search to find me. Maybe when I reread this letter in who knows how many years I may have found the answers. But most likely not. But that's what life is for: Experience.

To think that three years later, I am still on the search to define myself, to discover the meaning of my life. It amazes me to see that the realizations I have today are in fact the ideas I mulled over as a teenager. Present day me still doesn't have the answers for the questions my 16- year- old self posed. It's part of the search we all face in life, an idea I think I understood as a teenager that I could discover the meaning through travel, through exploration, through experience. The purpose of life is to experience; I couldn't agree more with 16- year- old me.