Purpose of Life Essay

Growth acts as anchor to stability and is a necessity in all its forms: physically, mentally, and spiritually. Those who live freely, with no intention of growing or improving, will eventually feel lost and, maybe even at some point, depressed. All great idols, such as Emily Dickinson, have become idealized for the growth they’ve experienced while reaching their goals. Emily Dickinson took writing as her anchor to happiness. She dropped out of school due to depression, and spent most of the…

derive answers to the five fundamental questions of life. These include discerning our ethical standards, beginning, life objectives, self-value, and future. Moreover, all of our other beliefs flow out of this basic foundation. In its simplest form, a worldview is the compass for the roadmap of life. (Word Count: 62) Secondly, a biblical worldview uses the Bible, God’s written words, to generate answers to the five fundamental questions of life. Overall, it seeks to illuminate His overarching…

The idea of alienation is Camus’ way of expressing his existentialist philosophy to the reader. The purpose of the novel is to show that nothing really matters. For example, the concept of justice, which is implied by society, is challenged by Meursault when he murders an Arab and does not see the wrongness in doing so. Camus uses Meursault as a representation…

Once upon a time, not that long ago though, there was a little girl who had a dream. A dream to be someone. A dream to stand out with a purpose. A purpose that would not just fulfil her desires but that of others too. Let’s call her Little Miss Dreamer. Little Miss Dreamer had a happy, smooth-running life that any little girl would have. Supportive parents, school, hobbies, extracurriculars, friends, college and so the journey went on. However, many nights she would lie in bed and these dreams…

his poem with a quote from Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita. Collins’ style of writing lacks many traditional poetic devices such as a structured meter, but Collins uses other devices to deliver his central purpose. In “Picnic, Lightning,” Collins creates a central purpose that the whimsicality and wonder of life should be appreciated, and even though death presents itself as imminent and certain, it also is fantastic. The first two stanzas of “Picnic, Lightning” begin the poem and introduce the…

to be born first. From small little insects to big animals like dogs, cats, horses and elephants, and to us human beings. Everything that has a soul is born, then it dies in the end after some time. But some of us human beings believe that there is life after death. That is because of our religion and faith that believes that there is an afterlife. The persons that believe in the afterlife are the persons in the Eastern part of the globe. These people are faithful, and some are the Chinese and…

Loss is something everyone has to go through, throughout life. There’s no way of escaping it, there’s always something that’s gone in one’s life. Bronte’s poem, Remembrance, and Hardy’s poems, The Darkling Thrush, and Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? Are three poems that help us better understand the things we don’t really notice that we are missing. In the poem Remembrance, by Emily Bronte, one understands the loss of a loved one. In the poem The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy one is told…

“I almost choked to death on what I knew before I knew. I was going to live the rest of my life without my mother. But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew, but the parts of her that had come before me too.” 19 I believe that the Cheryl Strayed’s purpose for including this quote in her novel was to reiterate the importance of her mother and to exemplify the connection that she had with her mother—good and bad—that…

A Man for All Seasons, a play by Robert Bolt, centers its plot around the real-life story of Sir Thomas More, a man who pays the ultimate price for prioritizing his conscience rather than following the status quo of adhering to the demands of those of a higher power. During More’s time in jail, he converses with the jailer who does not agree with More’s reasoning, stating that it’s always “better [to be] a live rat than a dead lion”. This statement that is presented to More by the jailer, an…

husband 's job ended all at once. While I was going through all of this I felt like my life was falling into a million pieces. I could have easily reached out to the world which could have resulted in opinions, false hope, lies and deceit but instead I fell to my knees and called on my Lord and he heard my cries and answered. Since these experiences happened they equipped me to know that God has a plans for my life, the world can be deceitful, and God works out all things for good which will…