The Importance Of Life In Life

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, life is the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual. While the definition is technically correct, life is a force so complex that it cannot be governed by technicality and should be’s. Life is a journey that people embark upon because they are on a quest to discover the answer to their questions. The routes they take are determined by the question they are trying to answer. Many people spend their lives trying to answer the question, “What is life?’. In a way, this is a waste of time because “What is life?” is not the important question. Many people fail to realize that they never answer “What is life?” because they inadvertently gather evidence and conduct research to answer “What do I want in life?”. One’s answer to this question becomes his or her compass. The direction the person travels next depends on if he or she thinks that that road will result in him or her obtaining what he or she wants. The journey may seem obstacle-ridden and problematic; however, the true problem arises when one is at the crossroads of obtaining what he or she wants. Paradise Lost’s Eve proves that if one’s wants are the product of greed, he or she will suffer a great fall and end up with nothing; The Flea’s love interest proves that if one’s want is the result of wanting better for oneself, then he or she will simply experience an opportunity cost.

According to Webster's dictionary, life is "the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body; a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings."

Life is like a game of volleyball, unpredictable yet predictable at the same time. The game of volleyball reflects the same ideas of what happens in my life. Thus, I created a setup of a volleyball game inside a shadow box to represent the parts of who I am. I made the volleyball net with white plastic canvas mesh, court lines with ribbon and players with some of my favorite pictures in the past. I chose this type of model because there are multiple sides to it. Only one side of it can be shown at a time but they are all there, this relates to how I present myself to others.

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.

“We live by hope. We do not always get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way,it will be better and that we can make it so.” Hubert H. Humphrey. I am a true believer that as humans we interpret things completely different from one another no matter how ¨simple¨ a phrase or something may be. I interpret this quote as tomorrow will be better. I guess you can say I am one who tends to live in the future rather than the present. I am Rajveer Sahota and this is a little insight on me.

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.

What I remember most about those days was the hard times. Because of WWI, times were difficult. There was a strict decline in employment and the majority of people living in Waxahachie lived in poverty. After my husband was killed, I became one of those people. The day he died was the day that my most extreme struggles began.

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.

My dad has been there for me throughout all of my endeavors. Even through the hardest of times and he stood by my side. I have been in the legal system since I was in ninth grade. It has been a difficult battle for everyone in my family. It has been especially hard for my father because of financial aid. My father has been trying to quit his job for quite some time but is enable to because he wouldn't have the benefits of insurance for six months after starting that job. We need the insurance to pay for my treatment that has been required throughout all of my probation.

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.

Ever since I was able to produce thought, and even before, my family has been hardcore Auburn fans. Later in my life I visited Auburn University and instantly I fell in love with this college. As my life continued and as I grew older my family kept telling me how amazing an engineer I would be with my stubbornness to fix things or to find out how they work. Like just recently my computer broke and to find out what went wrong so at 1 am I took apart my computer, with no prior knowledge of what made a computer run, and fixed it. My father, a Mechanical Engineer who graduated from Auburn, jokes saying that I did better than he usually does because when he takes things apart to fix them usually they end up broken more than before. My family has been a huge part of me finding out what I want to become, with me finally deciding on an Aerospace engineer, and what I want to do with my time on Earth and maybe even Mars depending on what the future has in store for me.

During my youth, I always tried to be the nicest person I could be. Today, negativity has become a big part of people’s everyday life. In high school, there happens to be tons of pettiness towards one another. People disliking others, many fights and unfortunate events become the center of all the attention and even bad reputations for people and their schools. The golden rule teaches us to, “Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.”

When my parents took me home from the hospital. I was brought to a nice clean house with two dogs named Kona and Jasper. I was generally in my crib as an infant. My mom deliberately made noise when I was trying to sleep to try to prevent me from being a light sleeper such as vacuuming for no reason and getting the dogs to bark. My parents used a gardening table as my changing table (this has little relevance, I just thought it was funny).

In my lifetime I have met lots of different people. Different races, genders, religions,and everything in between. One person in particular who has made the biggest impact on me goes by the name, Adrian. Adrian represents everything that I strive to be in life. Adrian to me symbolizes a person who works hard, happiness even when life is tough, and my career.

I've already talked to my academic advisor about this and don't have any fall classes scheduled. I hadn't even considered vocational schools before, completely forgot that that was a thing. There is one technical vocation school in Lawrence, so that might be a possibility. The high school gang and I plan to make another Colorado trip, longer than 2 days and minus the ER trip this time, so I want to maintain stability until then (second week of August). Given my employment and pay this isn't the greatest choice, but it is very important to me as I'd like to spend a little more time with them before our paths diverge more. Now that I'm getting full paychecks I'll have enough left over to cover the trip, which will cost less than $250.