In today’s society many people throughout the world have different perspectives on what the meaning of life truly is. For some people, their purpose in life is to have a well-paying job that enables them to help support their family, in order to be financially stable. For others, the meaning of life may be to have important relationships with people, as well as be able to connect with others on a deep level. It is so fascinating to know that billions of people live on this wonderful planet that we call Earth with so many various types of purposes and meanings to their life. However, in today’s popular culture, the media wants us to believe that happiness and pleasure is achieved through acquiring ridiculous amounts of money, fancy clothes, an incredibly good looking husband or wife, and a popular social status in order to feel accepted by others in society. These outrageous standards that are formed by celebrities such as pop stars, actors, and actresses symbolizes the materialistic, consumerist, and selfish society that we live in today. We as humans want to feel loved and wanted by others, and a huge portion the world, especially Americans, believe that the only way to accomplish this goal is to live by these ridiculous standards. Even I have been guilty of this idea of what the meaning of my existence is supposed to be, however I have realized that there is so much more to life than being a successful and rich Rios 2 man with a gorgeous wife, with the perfect children
| The search for meaning and purpose in life is an important aspect of life. According to this psychologist, people are always striving to meet their needs.
Humans. We are complex beings that are constantly filled with curiosity. No matter where we are, how old we are or what we do, one thought always comes to mind. What life are we going to have? Short? Long? Good? Bad? We may never know but
It’s their income and without their income, they are like everyone else. They can’t pay their bills, they can’t pay for food and gas, and they can save for the future.
The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life. Is it not? We all go through each day trying to figure out which road out the infinite amount of paths will lead us in a better direction where happiness is prominent and society is flawless. However, not every single human being is going to fit on that narrow, one-lane highway to success. Bad choices, accidents, fate, family matters, society, temptation, anger, rage, addiction, and loss of hope can all be deciding factors in opting to choose that wrong path to self-destruction. The adverse thing is, once you've traveled so far down the road, you get so discouraged that you feel like you can never turn back or make up for the "lost time."
expectations on what a “happy life” should be but even after doing so, they are not truly happy.
But, as philosopher Tom Nagel has argued, this is not the sense of “the meaning of life” people are usually interested in. Suppose an alien species created human life in order to provide them with a future food supply. Then the purpose of human life is to be food for aliens. That would be the meaning of life, if we take
What is the meaning of life? According to Chris McCandless living free and not conforming to the natural way of life is the meaning to life, as shown in the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Similar to Chris McCandless, Ralph Emerson believes that following your dreams and making your own trail is the meaning of life according to his short story “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Emerson. The purpose of man's existence is to avoid conformity and following one's own instincts and ideas.
Think of them as strings, the link between two different things that ties them together. These strings attach to the boxes in your mind and force them boxes in your mind to be open, they overflow out the top, and the tighterdeeper the connection, the closer the strings bring those two things together; until eventually, those boxes will tip over, spilling their contents out into your mind. And, once all our boxes have been opened up and dumped out, we’ll finally be able to see the world as it is-a giant, chaotic jumble of everything that makes up our world, held together by connections that tie it up into a ball we call Earth. This is how our world really is, how we’ll be able to see it if we just manage to reach out and form connections with others and break open all those little boxes in our
hearts. This may be how things are supposed to be, but instead many people find joy in
Some may say that it is possible to just "live life", and to never worry of the stumble or strife involved with finding your true meaning. But that in itself is finding meaning for living; to live life at it's fullest. Also, it is even quite possible to search for the deeper meaning while just living for today, because today is the best place to find that very meaning.
Nothing exists in life for the sake existing. A hammer’s purpose is to drive nails. While a hammer may be used to perform other tasks, such as cracking nuts, the efficacy of using the hammer for this purpose is questionable. For example, the meat inside the nut may be smashed, rendering it useless. If the hammer could think, it might experience feelings of inferior, even incomplete, because of the inadequate job it was doing as a nutcracker. Similarly, a human being can only feel complete when his body is used for its intended purpose—in this satisfaction of purpose, a human being achieves completeness. This is equally true for everything else in
existence while there are, at the same time, many things encouraging that idea that life’s meaning
whole world for everybody to use and for everybody to have enough energy as everybody else.
Life is actually mesmerizing adventure and actually have no general meaning. Each and every person has their own meaning of life and it is oneself who renders the meaning of one’s life. Life is an opinion. It’s an idea. It begins with the birth of an individual. One day that body will die, but that opinion or idea brought by that individual is immortal. It persists in this world for many years.
There is usually a misunderstanding in terms of interpreting what life purpose IS or IS NOT.