"An unexamined life is not worth living"

Or so Socrates said (sorta kinda, nothing sounds nicer than in its original Latin phrase anyway).

We are all called to look for the meaning of our life, or at least that's what a lot of the information we get nowadays tell us. Self-reflect, look within, look for your passion, seek your goal, find your calling, et cetera.

While I would probably be on the proposition of examining, it leaves me perplexed. If I don't examine my life, or if you don't examine your life, does it really lose its worth?
Well, what does "examining" concern? And what is "worth" measured by?

What boggles me is, why do we go through all this trouble? Honest to heart, any journey that requires you to look inside, seek something bigger, anything bigger than yourself, is far far away from comfortable. While there is a lot of learning that is accrued over time, sometimes I wonder if the learning is necessary, or do we cari pasal (finding trouble)?

Is it really necessary to continue this discomfort?

I'm growing to embrace it, because it happens to me anyway. I've been told I think too much, seeking too much meaning. Heck, the first thing that pops in my mind when someone tells me something is, "What do you mean?" I like to go underneath, and inside stuff, understanding or at least trying to understand why.

But I know so many people who can live through life not bothered about so much why, or any deeper meaning of any sort, and just take life as it comes. And frankly, they don't seem to be too bothered by the lack of not knowing why. "It just is, what why?"

Maybe I've yet to strike a balance between embracing the now (learning! learning!) and still enjoying the journey of seeking a bigger purpose.

My question is, what's the worth in examining one's life? Why do you seek beyond, or why not?