As is his life

I found inspiration in the search for meaning, but I enjoy placing a character as someone with everyone but at the same time missing so many other things

No longer needing his life, a man set sail to the unknown world. He did not know what awaited him or what would happen, but a sense of freedom overcame his entire body. He no longer felt chained by life, he felt as a bird flying on its own wings for the first time. As he complimented his existence, he walked towards a place he sought. In his dreams, the man saw a mountain. At its peak, the mountain held a key, a key that would show him the secret of life and so he walked until he found the mountain. As he began climbing, the man thought of his past life, his happy memories as well as the bad ones, he realized that a life is not just a body given birth into a world, it is a set of all kinds of experiences, either good or bad, that make up each and every person no matter how insignificantly small they are and this included him... As he awoke, the man found himself already at the top of the mountain and that is when it became clear, the key was not in the top, its was throughout the journey and the climb that he found the key to life and there the man died, knowing the secret of life.

Author's Note

Please give your homest opinion, it is a simple short story and the first I weite so I wish to know how good I did for a first try