It's been five years since she was gone. There are times when her coming back in my dreams was so vivid that I know that life is really lived in the minds of your children.
Of course, this means nothing to another person. We are incapable of caring for another family, another human being, except for our own. But that's enough.
If Satre is right - life is meaningless, then any meaning you make becomes definition.
“Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre