What is life?

Wow, for the strangest reason I have been having some very strange conversations with the most random people lately. Well not strange, but probably something that can only happen while on exchange. Firstly my two  host fathers, Exchange Students from Mexico, New Zealand, Finnland, Brasil, and some random German people that I have met. Everyone of them, somehow results in us talking about life. Like the essentials of it. I have no idea how that happens, is it just a coincidence? I started with politics with my two host dads, and both of those times it ended in a talk about what is to be foreign, and the meaning of foreign. What do you define as foreign? and how do you view it? Why different people think different ways? (i.e. Americans vs Germans vs Chinese) We also talked about what is the meaning of wealth? money? happiness? and i have had very similar questions arise when i was talking with my exchange friends. Its so breath taking to be in a different country and here the thoughts of people from other countries. It really is soo amazing to hear somethign other than what americans think about the world. It makes my mind race. For some reason I have this urge to want to talk about these things all the time, and to ask people what the really want to do in life, what do they find valuable and important. While the people in america are pretty much the same mindset and ideas, I want to hear the voices of the other parts of the world. I am so thankful to be on exchange to be able to do that. This absolutely fascinates me, and it makes my mind truly go crazy. I have been thinking about this one subject for months. I also have for some reason the urge to write sort of a life motto, Maybe a paragraph of my simple thoughts of life, and what I believe. Now that I think of it, when I first stumbled upon this subject and viewed it in an intelligent matter, was last year in my English class. Ill give credit where it is due, Mr. Michalec was really a great teacher, and I am glad i was mature enough then to actually give this subject some thought. To think about this whole overarching goals of life is really fascinating, and I find it even more interesting to hear about the goals and views of people from all over the world.
So far my life motto, is at this. and i think it would of been interesting if I wrote this before I came, and now, and at the end of my exchange but nonetheless, I will start now.
I believe in life, one should strive to acquire happiness, and really do whatever it takes to get that. That is the ultimate thing, and one should not take into consideration what another person thinks of them. It is your life and your only life to live, make the best of it truly. I also believe that one should really just relax in life, and not worry over the little things, and be open truly to everything and anything. While my goals arent that different from the average persons, that of getting married and all that, I also want to be a person that after I pass away in life, that people remembered. I want that I did something worthy enough that people will tell my story.