The Importance Of Creating Your Ideal Life

Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck in their respective novels Great Expectations and Of Mice and Men, suggest that uncontrolled aspirations are inherently negative and do not lead to success in life. Modern society encourages individuals to aspire to greatness, however we must remember not lose focus on the tasks of the present if we want to achieve meaningful

desire something you have to turn those desires into goals and set out on a path that leads to

Why should people be able to postpone their desire? Desire is a sense of hoping for something. Scientists have discovered that if people could control their inner desire, they would be more likely to have self-discipline, higher SAT scores and are more successful. Delayed gratification is a person’s ability to control his/her desire for something for a period of time.

Desire is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. Desire can take a hold of us in our lives and make us only focus on it. In both the books Where Things Come Back and Everything,Everything they have a desire for something more in their lives.

The individual’s idea soon leads to desire; a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. Many should know desire has

Cold war and domestic revival are linked in the sense that after the world war there was an intangible but potent cultural emphasis. After the Second World War with the onset of atomic age, coupled with fears and tensions associated with the cold war atmosphere etc, saw families retreating to affluence and consumerism and focused on rearing children to become productive citizens capable of defeating the enemy in varied possible ways. People were under immense pressure to be apolitical. Severe anti-communist crusade resulted in people with dissenting views to get punished or fired from jobs or suspiciously viewed in their communities. Ideal American life projected around the world upheld white, middle-class, suburban family raising upstanding

Desire is caused by our ignorance of reality, and is fuelled by our ambition to become, meaning to have life hopes and dreams, such as to be wealthy. This causes us to grasp onto the things we are afraid to lose in our lives lest we fall short of our goal because of it. It is this that keeps us rooted in the cycle of Samsara.

We all have this dream: to find our Prince Charming or our Cinderella and live the fairy tale happy ending. In scenario A, the perfect happy ending is found. John and Mary have met, they have fallen in love, they have gotten married and have, “…worthwhile and remunerative jobs…a charming house…live-in help…two children…stimulating and challenging sex life and worthwhile friends...they retire. They both have hobbies which they find stimulating and challenging. Eventually the die. This is the end of their story”(Page 1). What they have, everyone wants. That is what we strive for, because that is what has been programmed into our heads, our childhoods we were spent hearing stories, about

We always want more than what we have and that sometimes leads us down the wrong road. Among the numerous human desires that erupt from the

Institutionalized ideas of a successful lifestyle have been perpetuated in society throughout time. Each generation faces newly refined perimeters of righteous behaviors that have been affected by progressive ideas, technological advancements, and traditional beliefs. These components and more, play a role in creating a public image of a family structure. Essentially, families are key representatives of society. The posterchild family structure of society depicts values held by a generation, and promoted throughout the means of mass marketing during that time. Every citizen is considered to be held accountable to the societal standards of correct human behavior and ideology. These standards have an impact on freedom, marriage, work, education and children. My family structure is grass rooted in Punjab, India. The dominant religion, political structure, public institution, and societal ideology have differences and similarities with those of America’s.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was

Perfection is a deadly sickness. It is a wicked plague which clouds the mind, destroys focus, and eliminates any value you may hold for yourself. We are all told that perfectionism is, well, perfect. A flawless way to live where you make no mistakes, avoid any challenges, and are loved and cherished by everyone around you. But this cruel mindset is like a collar that chokes fun and kills passion, constricting joy and creativity in favor of the one and only best decision. The decision that will get you perfect grades, a perfect reputation, and nary an ounce of criticism. Now, while this might seem good, I can tell you for sure that it’s not. How? Because I’ve tried it.

In today’s world, humans are often misled on what really is a good life. We are constantly shown through the television and magazines that being rich and famous is the way to go when it comes to a good life, when in truth many of them are miserable by problems that usually wouldn’t affect the common person. In truth there are only a few that are rich and famous and do achieve what can probably considered one of the greatest achievement’s by a man which is having a good life. In my opinion, the decision if someone has a good life or not is up to them and their will to strive for something better than average during the high school years of their life. The reason I feel like it begins at that age in their life is

one and you hope every day that one day you will fulfil it, you have

It is common sense that all the human beings would like to live a happy life and they will spare no efforts in order to realize the purpose of really living a happy life in the end. However, different people have different definitions toward what a happy life is and they tend to have different standards as for how a life is that can be regarded as a happy life. There is no doubt that people will then try different means in order to pursue a happy life based on their definition toward what a happy life is. Therefore, the following will talk about the pursuit of a happy life from the perspectives of both Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness and Viktor E. Frankl in Man’s Searching for Meaning, during which the experiences of some characters from the film Forrest Gump will be applied as evidence. Generally speaking, the pursuit of a happy life in the minds of Dalai Lama and Viktor E. Frankl can be achieved via experiencing sufferings and adversity. It is hoped that this analysis can help people understand what a happy is from a different point of view.