Basic Human Survival Versus The Pursuit Of Happiness

Hopefully the title has not lead you to any false assumption about this essay. Although I am a seventeen year old girl, this is not the whining of a depressed kid on the internet. I just thought it was an intriguing title that would interest the reader as perplexes me. Why? In all honesty i don't really know. How am i, in my short existence, supposed to answer a centuries old existential question? I'm not because I cant, quite possibly no one can. We can speculate though; i think that brings people comfort, to believe in something. Whilst discussing it with my peers two opposing views continued to be brought up: Basic Human Survival versus the Pursuit of happiness. Up until the mid nineteenth century the average person's life was to survive …show more content…
This passion most often comes in a form of art or work. An intense desire or enthusiasm for something; something that i may never find but my sister of twelve years has had since before she could speak. My sister has know she loved to draw since the day she learned to hold a pencil; her life revolves around her art, she makes it she wears it she lives in it she occasionally eats it her art is an extension of who she is. Life without passion is bearable especially if you've never known it because then you can't miss it. But a life where you can express your passion some would argue is a life not worth …show more content…
Religion . Entire cultures are dedicated to the belief of a higher power.The tricky part is the conflicting conclusions certain groups have come to. Though they are all just theories with little to no evidence to back them up, most are raised to think their faith is the correct one. In most religions the way one lives their life has a direct correlation to what happens after they die. The Christian Bible states that depending on how you life your life God will decide on whether you entire heaven or are forced to go to hell. Judaism focuses more on life and doesn't specify much on the after death, it is my understanding though that their heaven has an open door policy. Buddhists believe in a cycle of death and rebirth called samsara - through karma and eventual enlightenment, they hope to escape samsara and achieve nirvana, an end to suffering. Hindus also believe in samsara, they believe that a person's atman (spirit) is permanent and cannot change while the physical body is not permanent and can change. For theses people they live how they are supposed to, how they one they live for has instructed them