The meaning of life has always been a thought pursued by mankind’s greatest philosophers, but we still haven’t found out the exact answer.

However, for teenagers, they aren’t thinking about the afterlife — they have other things on their minds, especially when it comes to friends, video games and being lethargic.

When you get into an argument with a teenager — let’s take, for example, the extremely complex task of cleaning your room — whereas for the adult, it’s a simple chore to tell their teen-ager to do it, for the teen-ager, it’s a highly dreaded, labor-intensive task.

Different people take different approaches on life, but I went in and asked what makes life enjoyable and what makes it not so enjoyable.

As word on the street goes, Lydia Longabach, an eighth-grader at Southwest Junior High School, solely lives for “CANDY!,” whereas Megan Flory, a ninth-grader at Central Junior High School, believes that people exist to “live, love and learn.”

Aristotle said that we all must function in society by co-existing with each other through justice. But Trey Beasley, ninth grader at Southwest, puts a modernized touch to it as he explains, “I can’t actually enjoy people that start drama, and that’s one of the things that annoys me about life. But the good thing is that I have friends like you.”

Faith Lawrenz, a Southwest eighth-grader, says, “Well … I least enjoy when I think I have done something really good … and then it kind of crashes down on me. And I most enjoy when I’m able to help someone that needs it, even if it means their happiness comes before mine.”

Teenagers have their own views on life, and so do their elders. If you ask an adult what the meaning of life is, you’ll more than likely get either a college-length lecture or a simple shrug.

This is definitely a subject to be debated for the rest of everyone’s lives, but one thing is for sure: The meaning of life isn’t to co-exist; it’s about cell phones.