What principles should guide our lives? Throughout this insightful chapter, I found a strong correlation between my own beliefs in correlation to Ringer’s “Look Out for Number One,” alongside Chodron’s “Abandon Any Hopes of Fruition.” “One’s goal in life should be to spend time pursuing pleasure as long as this pursuit does not violate the rights of others,” (Ringer 191), a statement in which I find strong belief in, as I believe it to be the most rational course of action that pertains to how you handle your own life. I believe that there should be no blockade between your own desires and happiness, allowing you to pursue your own for filling life style as long as it does not directly impact another individual’s way of life or being. Ringer
