Life gives rise to a conscious state of wanting. Not being conscious is possible, but non-existence is out of the question. Even after death the composition of a physical body has certain natural tendencies. It turns to energy, other molecules, and atoms.
Wanting is the essence of both living and being . Even non-living things have tendencies. Every physical particle and atom has certain tendencies.
The real question is how much of what you should want. You should decide how much pleasure and how much meaning you want.You should only choose your priorities regarding this wanting. In the process of choosing, your mind becomes a battlefield of future scenarios of pleasure and future scenarios of meaning.
You should think and feel what you really want. Moreover, since your wanting is a product of your being, you should know your W1 and W2 compositions and corresponding natural desires. Only then you can gain control over your being (even your own self image) to prioritize your wantings. The X-man chooses beauty and meaning over pleasure, because this composition is more preferable to the feeler. Nezman creates the most beautiful dream, a dream that entertains the feeler the most. The greedy and whimsical feeler wants every pleasurable experience rooted in W1 and W2 compositions, but there are a lot of illusions as your W1 composition has not capacity to tolerate this much pleasure in time and space.
Time and space impose limitations on how much you can fulfill your deepest desires and be prepared for all those contradictions and disappointments and suffering that these limitations impose. Intellect is the tool that enables feeler to address those limitations, contradictions, and W1 and W2 mathematical equations.