The Importance Of Life In Life

Imagine having the perfect life- you get into all honors classes, you get straight A’s, you are the first chair in the orchestra, you get into the A Cappella choir, you are on the varsity volleyball team, President of the Student Council, and you have a perfect home life. You have never had to face a single obstacle throughout your journey in life. When your whole life is like this, you do not know what failure feels like and will never experience the need to rise up after a downfall. There are many types of journeys one can take in life and dealing with obstacles has a prodigious impact on the outcome. The obstacles and hindrances are the things that shape us as we experience the ups and downs in life.

There have been many individuals who have found success despite adversity in their life. For my example I chose someone who has made several works of art: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, better known as Tom Cruise. Being one of my favorite actors, Tom Cruise has produced and starred in over thirty blockbuster movies including Top Gun, Oblivion, War of the Worlds and The Firm. The little known aspect about Tom is that he had a very hard life growing up. He was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, to his mother Mary and father Thomas Mapother. Due to his father’s career, Tom was forced to move around very often, leaving him little time to develop friends or other relationships. At the age of 11 his parents divorced and he went with his mother

Life is not always a straight path, and most of the time there are ridiculous obstacles in the way. Individuals handle life differently than others. Certain people handle problems badly, but others handle problems just fine. Some acceptable ways people overcome adversity is by embracing differences, having a positive attitude, and persevering to get through the obstacles/problems.

Regardless the situation or where one is in life, everyone will always run into obstacles.. It all depends on how we choose to learn from it, such as others’ may call it “learning from our mistakes”. Eventually as an individual we all grow up over the years with a different mind set on how we view things and life will throw some crazy things at us. There will be many hard things that someone will go through but they’ll overcome it and that’ll make them stronger as a person. After going through an obstacle in life, it can give people a new perspective on life and give them the opportunity to change things for the better good.

However, obstacles in your way to success, are what make your achievement more worthwhile in the end. Oprah Winfrey one of the most influential women in history is a strong example of this statement. She fought through so much to get to where she is now. In her words, her main struggle was poverty; her living conditions were harsh and she barely ever had enough to keep her going. However, if you ask her now she would tell you that it made her experience of creating success and building success that much more rewarding. The things that held her back are the things that eventually made her move forward. She would doubt herself and her abilities, but if it weren't for the few people in her life that gave her the support and the strength she needed, she might have given up. These things made her the brilliant and confident woman she is today. The obstacles in your life create character and change you as a

Michael Jordan once said “If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it”. No one lives an easy life, whether you’re wealthy or underprivileged. My life was filled with large obstacles that I had to get over in order to move on and succeed. The obstacles that I faced may not have been as difficult as someone else’s, but they were very troublesome for me.

A meaningful life means find happiness in everything you do, it means enjoy and share time with your loved ones, and have a purpose in life. To find happiness, we must go through different tribulations and situations where life doesn’t seem to be so easy. Happiness is an art that can be learned, it describes a deep sense of inner well-being, peace and vitality. You must know that even from your worst moments in life there is something good to take out of it. If we really want to be happy we must be grateful for what we have, we must enjoy everything that has been given to us. We must remember that out there, there is people wishing or working hard for what we already have.

Innovators throughout human history have all shared a common characteristic, which has been the ideological belief that if you commit yourself to the unthinkable, surely you will reach the unimaginable. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, and various other distinguished scholars understood the importance of never letting adversity destroy the potential for creativity. Our brief moment in this world to shine leaves behind a narrative for every individual. My life revolved around the presence of failure, which brought birth to a beginning of enlightenment.

Life events are important in shaping character traits. You can find examples of this in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Drummer boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury, and The Tell-Tale Heart and Charles by EdgarAllan Poe and Shirlie Jackson. All of these stories shows examples of shaping the person you are.

The ancient Egyptians were the first culture discovered to strongly value the relationship of an afterlife with regards to moral and evil actions. In contrary belief to being obsessed with death, the Egyptians held onto the outlook of living a just life. Being given the opportunity to live fruitfully in the post-mortem world, was an optimistic ideal in turn for people to appreciate life on Earth. Taking care of the land and crops in hopes for revival in the afterlife – which involves mummification – as opposed to the negative philosophies of other cultures (Casey 2013: 1). The evolution of belief in Osiris as judge of the dead, spanned thousands of years, from shortly before the Early Dynastic Period to the Ptolemaic Dynasty and is written about in Pyramid texts to the Book of the Dead. These sources reinforce the distress that comes with post-mortem judgement and presents the possibility of resurrection for all, not just solely to the King and his close circle, as otherwise believed (Budge 1973: 148). Egyptians aspired to interact with Osiris in the hereafter and did so by practicing rituals as well as living a vindicated life for hopes of living a righteous existence in the netherworld.

A “good life” is an expression that is used to describe an ideal life for one to live. There are many different interpretations of what exactly a good life is. That’s what makes our country great, we’re all different. What may seem ordinary or peculiar to someone could be someone else’s aspiration or fantasy. As Mark Twain once said, “the two important days in life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why”. It is quite simple, this life is a game we endure, the journey begins the day we are born, but it takes time and experience to figure out the game. Whether it’s a janitor or a CEO of a large company has nothing to do with living a good life. Like Johnson explains in Unspeakable conversation, not matter if you’re big, short, intelligent, disabled or healthy everyone has a place in life and once YOU find it nothing else matters. Singer in Unspeakable Conversations agrees that disables people aren’t worth the money, care and emotional stress, but people are blinded by the actual disability itself. Disabled or not everyone laughs, loves, accomplish and succeed one way or another. Like disabled people, children in less developed parts of Africa might have different views on what a “good life” is, they vision the "good life" as having an education, a safe place to live, clean food and water, and a more promising future. People who life a good life in my opinion are ones that live a healthy lifestyle, motivations to accomplish and set goals to strive and help others.

Having to struggle through life with many difficult obstacles and problems. Not knowing how to get through the depressing and dark parts within life. This is what people go through on a daily basis, a lot happens during the course of a person's life. But how the actions taken on to becoming a proud and happy person is by the certain, specific choices and hard decisions that are made. This is shown in pieces of texts from the following poems. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes both bring the deep thoughts together that nobody's life is perfect, everyone has struggles within life but there is always a way to get past the difficult times.

The question of, “How should human beings live their lives?” is a simple, but an exceptionally deep question that gives religions their meaning or purpose. Religion is not only something you believe in, but it is a matter that affects someone's daily life. Christianity is the religion I, and many others, are most vulnerable to in the United States. Even though my vulnerability to Christianity is high, I still find the appreciation of others as well. Buddhism has always been an interest of mine. Although it doesn’t particularly fit me I still find it to be an intriguing belief. These two religions are nearly polar opposites when it comes to answering the question of how human beings should live their lives.

“ The time has come” mark 1:15 (For God so loved the world that he sent his only son to die on the cross for us, for all who believes will not perish but live to eternal life John 3:16) This is when I found out what it really means. I also found out who our real father is….. Do you know? statement

Some say life is a journey while others say it’s an ordeal and right in the midst of these contrasting opinions we struggle to find the true meaning and purpose of life. For good sixteen years of my life I also found myself sparing with this conundrum then one fine day I found these words in my tenth standard text book “I sought to hear the voice of God and climb the topmost steeple, but God said go down again I dwell among the people.” At that time I had no idea how these lines written by an anonymous would shape the trajectory of my life and be integrally pivotal to my career in medicine.