What does it mean to live life to the fullest? Well, what it should mean is whatever you think it means. What it means to me to live life to the fullest and what you think it means to live life to the fullest should not be the same. We are both totally different people. We should not base how we are living on the approval of the others. Instead we should base it on what makes us happy and feel like we are living life to the fullest. We are always living, so every day you can feel like you lived that day to the fullest protentional for whatever reasons you have. Huge moments should not be how we define whether or not we truly lived because those moments do not happen every day. In Walker Percy’s essay, The Loss of the Creature he is constantly
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That is not the case and Percy also tries to get people to push against that normalized idea. In this article, Percy uses the word approval for the first time when he is talking about a couple that visited Mexico and on their trip, they got lost and discovered an Indian Village. In this moment, they felt like they had finally found “it.” When they returned from their trip they were talking to their ethnologist friend and were telling him how they wish he could have seen it. The reason they wanted this friend to see the village was not because they wanted to truly share this moment with him, they just wanted him to know that it really happened. Percy goes on to say that the couple took the ethnologist friend, but instead of being involved in what was happening they only focused on their friend. Once the friend seemed to be having an amazing time and enjoying the experience the couple asks, “Didn’t we tell you?” they say at last. What they want from him is not ethnological explanations, all they want is his approval” (Percy 6). This couple needed this moment to be “it” so badly that they went as far as to take their friend there just so their experience could be truly genuine. Their own thoughts and feelings towards that moment did not play any role, they did not care about what they felt, they only cared about what someone else thought. This should not be how …show more content…
In Percy’s essay, there is an example of a man going to a doctor and telling him about his dream, but Percy ends the dialogue about the dream and states what is going on inside this man’s head, Percy then states, “I have nothing else to offer you but my own unhappiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness” (Percy 8). This is what people do with everything, they need to know or believe that their happiness, sadness, and everything in their life measures up to everyone else and if it does not then they are not enough. There is an example in the second section of Percy’s essay of a college student at Harvard who is surrounded by amazing text books and is in such an awesome classroom that Shakespeare’s sonnet much come across. When the sonnet does not come across the question that gets asked by the student himself is, “What’s wrong with me?” (Percy 8). What he is not realizing is that what he is doing is just trying to see the sonnet for what everyone else thinks it should be, which is why it cannot come across to him. All forms of art, nature, and everything in our world cannot be seen between two different people in the same exact
That is not the case and Percy also tries to get people to push against that normalized idea. In this article, Percy uses the word approval for the first time when he is talking about a couple that visited Mexico and on their trip, they got lost and discovered an Indian Village. In this moment, they felt like they had finally found “it.” When they returned from their trip they were talking to their ethnologist friend and were telling him how they wish he could have seen it. The reason they wanted this friend to see the village was not because they wanted to truly share this moment with him, they just wanted him to know that it really happened. Percy goes on to say that the couple took the ethnologist friend, but instead of being involved in what was happening they only focused on their friend. Once the friend seemed to be having an amazing time and enjoying the experience the couple asks, “Didn’t we tell you?” they say at last. What they want from him is not ethnological explanations, all they want is his approval” (Percy 6). This couple needed this moment to be “it” so badly that they went as far as to take their friend there just so their experience could be truly genuine. Their own thoughts and feelings towards that moment did not play any role, they did not care about what they felt, they only cared about what someone else thought. This should not be how …show more content…
In Percy’s essay, there is an example of a man going to a doctor and telling him about his dream, but Percy ends the dialogue about the dream and states what is going on inside this man’s head, Percy then states, “I have nothing else to offer you but my own unhappiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness” (Percy 8). This is what people do with everything, they need to know or believe that their happiness, sadness, and everything in their life measures up to everyone else and if it does not then they are not enough. There is an example in the second section of Percy’s essay of a college student at Harvard who is surrounded by amazing text books and is in such an awesome classroom that Shakespeare’s sonnet much come across. When the sonnet does not come across the question that gets asked by the student himself is, “What’s wrong with me?” (Percy 8). What he is not realizing is that what he is doing is just trying to see the sonnet for what everyone else thinks it should be, which is why it cannot come across to him. All forms of art, nature, and everything in our world cannot be seen between two different people in the same exact