The Essence Of Life Throughout My Life

Meaning in one way or another colors every mental state, because it is the foundation of every conscious level. We don’t always focus specifically on the sense of import in every experience, but it is precisely this sense of meaning, whether conscious or unconscious, that turns each and every experience into a conscious experience in the first place. Thus, no conscious experience is a completely meaningless experience, because without some level of meaning the event cannot be experienced as “conscious” at all. Numerous metaphors can be used, the fact that meaning may be thought of as the seed from which each and every conscious experience grows, or meaning is the spark that ignites the flame of consciousness. It is these metaphors that fulfill the theory that life without purpose is not life at all.

As a child, I grew up going to Catholic School, from Kindergarten, until eighth grade. My mother thought private school was best for my brother and I, as there’s a misconception that since you’re paying a tuition, the education is better. My mother was also Catholic at the time, so she was more comfortable with us growing up being taught religion, which should inevitably cause us to be Christians and believe in God. Years went by of me being educated on religion, and by the age of twelve, I felt guilty that I couldn’t process or accept the idea of there being a God. I came to this reality due to the fact that I didn’t feel the connection to God that our teachers taught us we should have; I didn’t feel loved by an alternate being, I felt alone, and I didn’t grasp how such a thing could be possible.

There are two main viewpoints that answer this question; Nihilism and Existentialism. Nihilism is the idea that life itself is intrinsically, fundamentally and inherently meaningless. Existentialism, on the other hand, is the belief that every human is born without a given meaning, and it's up to us to figure out what gives our life that meaning. Furthermore, the idea that God gave you a predetermined purpose is not a very popular one, among neither theists nor philosophers, so I'll only be discussing these two viewpoints.

I have only had one experience in life that made be question the meaning of life. When I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease I was handed a list of things that I would never be allowed to do again. This experience precipitated a great amount of doubt about the meaning of my life. I was very upset and became depressed every time I would think about the activities that I was not allowed to participate in. I decided I should have a meeting with my pastor to discuss my circumstances. He truly helped me to look at my illness with a new perspective. He explained to me how God had a purpose for my pain and He would use it for his glory. I became very determined to not let my illness stop me from fulfilling my dreams. Today, I can see how God

I’ve met tons of people throughout my life who clearly live as though they have no purpose. I understand how they feel; if there is no purpose to life, what is wrong with wasting it. I used to believe that the world revolved around me, that I was the center of the universe and that everything was some hologram projection that my subconscious had placed my body into. However, this all changed on the day I realized I was wrong, on the day I realized that life was not infinite and that I would need to allocate all of my time towards the one life I have.

Hermann Hesse said it well. The meaning of life has sparked debate for centuries, and it will never cease. Most everyone wants there to be significance to the life they have lived and despair at the thought that their life's decisions and acts are meaningless and will slip into oblivion at the end of their existence. In order to answer this age-old question about the meaning of life, let us first ask "How did I get here?"

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

The definition of purpose is this: something set up as an object or end to be attained. In comparison, a person’s purpose is often their goal as well as their reason to do something all jumbled into one. I may be going out on a limb saying this, but I don’t believe that there is a single person that lives without something that gives their life purpose and meaning. There are exactly three things in this world that give my life purpose. Two of those things are people. These are people that drive me to reach my goals. The third thing that gives my life purpose is ultimately the goal that I aim to reach in life. That goal would simply be to be better. I aim to a better parent than mine have been and I aim to be better at doing what makes me happy. It’s impossible for someone to understand my life or why I have the goals that I do, but I will do my best to explain it.

Even I have been guilty of this idea of what the meaning of my existence is supposed to

To reference my question from earlier if I even have a purpose, there is no way to tell. Yet, that is why I still enjoy my life, I am not conformed to a set goal yet, I aimlessly wander around searching for my legacy content without a goal. However, I realized that my so-called “purpose” isn’t given to me by the time I was born or by God giving it to me. But instead, we have to create our own purpose in life and now, go create

In this Article, it open with a story told about men who was in a time where Hitler made these camps for Jews. The man who was a survivor, His wife and family and considered it as a meaning. The man name was Frankl who wrote a book about the experience and him being a therapist on the campus and told about 2 people who wanted to physically harm themselves. When Frankl talks about meaningfulness he talks about a reason to live. In the article, it also talks about how many people don’t feel like there is a purpose to leaving and if there was it was nowhere to be found. When we look at meaningfulness many people believe God has a plan for all of us and that’s why we were but on earth and we have to wait till we discover this. When trying to understand it may be challenging because there are bumps they may bring us down to believe there is nothing. A good example would be Frankl and him making it through the camps even though many of us may know it is hard to know if you will stay alive or be dead the next day.” by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love -- the more human he is." In the article, it talks about this quiet and how sometimes we need to help others and not always consider ourselves.

Having a sense of meaning and purpose to life can come from discovering our life purpose and living out our personal mission and vision. When we are living for a purpose, we can develop a greater sense of meaning for what happens in our life, and a positively correlated topic with this is religiosity. Having a spiritual or religious relationship seems to aid in the cultivation of purpose and meaning. Most of these variables are interrelated and build on one another, and they can be learnt and developed if we are willing to put in the time to grow in these areas .

There are two types of meaning, being external and internal. The external meaning comes from the outside of us, bestowed by God by being a part of “God’s plan”. Whereas the internal meaning comes from within us based on our personal goals or purposes that are inherently valuable. It was Jean-Paul Sartre who had an external way of thinking and had said, “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal” (Vaughn, 365). It was Les Brown who had taken the internal approach and said “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner” (Vaughn,

The search for your true meaning in life is not easy. I found my purpose when I was eighteen years old. My purpose is helping other people. I work at Crossroads Rhode Island helping the homeless get into temporary shelter. Other people do not have such an easy time finding their true meaning and purpose for life. While people search for their purpose they often

Humans are on this planet to adapt, reproduce, and survive. That’s our purpose as human beings. However, as people, I do not believe humans have their own essence. Thinking one person has their own essence would be the same as thinking everything happens for a reason. If people have their own essence, they believe in a purpose to their life that is already set in stone. They follow a path without questioning as if they have no choice in the matter of the course. It is not necessary to have a say in the matter since it is already written out for them. As people grow they change their purpose in life. The longer people live the more times they change their minds. They have experienced more and can understand who they are and what it is they want out of their human experience. It’s irrational to think that thoughts and ideas don’t change as someone ages. I for one, don’t have the same purpose in life that my five-year-old self