Finding Our Purpose in Life Essay

of Life, Jeremy is sent on a life changing adventure, and embarks the meaning of life of it being, “the journey, not the destination”, and, “finding one’s potential and learning to embrace it”. These beliefs from Mr. Rudolph and Dr. Grady are related or similar to each other. They both lead from one to another. For example, when Dr. Grady says, “ it’s the journey, not the destination”, and Lizzy asks, “ What journey do you mean?”, “ Why, life, of course” (pg. 186), he probably means that during the journey of life that one embarks, they learn something. From what Mr. Rudolph defined the meaning of life as finding one’s potential and embracing it, that would probably be learned during the journey of life. This…

come. She explains that the meaning to finding one’s happiness is through giving back to others in need and finding your passion. Although her statements may be true, she fails to mention anything about personal satisfaction. What is it about our personal satisfaction that would help us find meaning into our lives? Can our own personal success in life be sufficient enough to live a meaningful life? As I write this essay, I hope to prove that subjective satisfaction alone is sufficient enough…

that it goes beyond our own pleasures and desires. One has to remember the impacts of our actions on other people’s lives. Author Darrin McMahon in his article “In Pursuit of Unhappiness,” mentions how Mill recovers from a depression by allowing himself to look for happiness in another way. Mill says, “ Those only are happy, who have their minds fixed on some other object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others; on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit,…

So many questions are asked through people’s lives on their journey to find their purpose. Searching for the meaning or purpose of one’s life can help people open their eyes to the world around them and what effect they have on it. Since this carries such importance in people’s lives, many stories have been written dealing with the journey to find purpose. Two texts that deal with living ones life with meaning and purpose are, Dante’s Inferno and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Dante’s…

Successfully As we age there are several stages in our adult life that change dramatically. We go through many different stages as our body ages, we lose family and friends do to death, and we retire, and or put out of employment due to age. With all of these changes, it is expected an aging adult in late adulthood, would experience several different feelings as they go through these stages of life. The following paper will discuss some of these changes and how older adults in late adulthood…

living the good life. I am a strong believer in healthy eating and living your life using the power of “disgust” to make decisions about eating habits and living conditions. I am a vegetarian and have been a vegetarian almost all of my life. I grew up in a family of butchers and needless to say it shaped me as a person. I find eating meat is not the way to a good life for me. However, I do not try to instill these beliefs to others, as I wouldn’t want someone trying to force me to eat an animal…

Balancing Your Bottom Line is a seven-part methodology which helps you to get to the root cause of your imbalance by helping you to understand how you got here, why you remain here and what will lead you to happy, healthy, content and peaceful life. The first part of the methodology helps you to understand that we were never taught how to think, but what to think. It discusses the contributing factors that influence our thought and rationale process along with our belief system. The factors…

causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior”. Fear manifest itself in different forms and sometimes we are able to justify our fear. But the majority of the time our fear basically paralysis us. For example, I have dealt with the fear of commitment to my purpose. If you are new to this blog or you have read it before you will realize I haven’t been putting up a new post since last year. Due to fear of commit, discipline, and accountability. Which…

Powers of Plato (A discussion of Plato “ example of people What purpose do our lives hold? Many of us wonder but not a lot of us really exam our lives in depth. In one text we begin to see that exploration take form. Plato his beloved teacher defends himself. He talks a lot about his teachings and about what life means. His martyr prints his philosophies in blood for the next generations to continue learning from. Reading this text, I learned many important philosophies of Socrates.…

treatment or happiness practice that will provide lasting effects. Although there is some truth to this notion, having an attitude of gratitude for life may continuously reflect a positive happiness increase and lower depression. If a 15 minute daily gratitude practice yields happiness and decreases depression it is evident that a continued use of the practice will give daily positive…