Since the beginning of time we ask the question, what is the meaning of life?
There is no right or wrong answer to that question. We have used logic and reasoning to explain why and how things happen. The wish to understand that question is always present in our minds. We are constantly striving to search for the purpose and meaning of the things we do in our everyday lives. I believe we need reason and purpose in order to do anything, just how some need a reason or reasons to keep living, or their lives may become “meaningless”.
I believe the meaning of life is to find what is true to you by using your own personal experiences and dreams. Everything you do brings meaning, even if it brings you happiness or sadness or even tragic. Either the experience is good or bad, it still has …show more content…
There are many different meanings to everyone, some enjoy the material things and others believe life revolves around the important things. Like I stated above, family and education. Before this topic was discussed and before I was in this philosophy course, I did not fully understand it, I did not give it much thought; it did not really matter to me. I did not think there was really any kind meaning to life, but after reading the materials given to us, it had me thinking of all the possibilities you could make happen. All the things going on in the world, bad and good, they all mean something to me and hopefully everyone. When I was younger I did not see the point in going to church, after the confusion of the things I have been taught about how god would watch over us and provide for us, yet death of close ones still occurred, but as I grew older, I realized that church is actually an important thing in my life. It gives me some of the answers to the questions I have on certain things like death, and why it happens. Now I truly believe that everything happens for a
There is no right or wrong answer to that question. We have used logic and reasoning to explain why and how things happen. The wish to understand that question is always present in our minds. We are constantly striving to search for the purpose and meaning of the things we do in our everyday lives. I believe we need reason and purpose in order to do anything, just how some need a reason or reasons to keep living, or their lives may become “meaningless”.
I believe the meaning of life is to find what is true to you by using your own personal experiences and dreams. Everything you do brings meaning, even if it brings you happiness or sadness or even tragic. Either the experience is good or bad, it still has …show more content…
There are many different meanings to everyone, some enjoy the material things and others believe life revolves around the important things. Like I stated above, family and education. Before this topic was discussed and before I was in this philosophy course, I did not fully understand it, I did not give it much thought; it did not really matter to me. I did not think there was really any kind meaning to life, but after reading the materials given to us, it had me thinking of all the possibilities you could make happen. All the things going on in the world, bad and good, they all mean something to me and hopefully everyone. When I was younger I did not see the point in going to church, after the confusion of the things I have been taught about how god would watch over us and provide for us, yet death of close ones still occurred, but as I grew older, I realized that church is actually an important thing in my life. It gives me some of the answers to the questions I have on certain things like death, and why it happens. Now I truly believe that everything happens for a