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Purpose Of Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn’s Purpose
Philosophy 12
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Most people search their whole lives trying to define their purpose. We have a desire to feel purposeful. Audrey Hepburn eludes belonging and transcendence as her purpose belonging to help define her purpose. She fulfills her purpose by her acting career as well as contributions to UNICEF.
Audrey found a sense of belonging throughout her acting career. She was not born into the spot light however. ‘Born on May 4th, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium’ , Audrey suffered from a traumatic childhood. In 1935 Audrey’s parents divorced because her father was a Nazi sympathizer. Even after Audrey is older she still would say the divorce was the most traumatic incident of her life. Which is shocking …show more content…

Not only did she have some valued relationships but many; which have lived on beyond her. Another purpose added to belonging is she left a legacy. Legacy was carried on from her establishment of relationships, with family, friends, and fans. Her legacy and fame helped her to obtain sociological. From her fame she lived a life of belonging filled with relationships of people who adored her. Fame lead her to find transcendence another purpose. Audrey always lived a life of empathy as seen in this reference, “Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering. Nothing—not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we’re going to survive with dignity” . Audrey saw as a young child people dying, and experiencing true suffering. From this she established a sense of what is important. Her views on life have a transcendent view. Coinciding with belonging she values relationships and others more than her personal status or gain. She not only emulated transcendence through her statements but her actions as well. Audrey showed transcendence by ‘visiting a polio vaccine project in Turkey, training programmes for women in Venezuela, projects for children living and working on the street in Ecuador, projects to provide drinking water in Guatemala and Honduras and radio literacy projects in El Salvador’ . Going to a forgien country to help others was something Audrey felt served a greta amount of

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