Finding Our Purpose in Life Essay

human instinct to have need for finding one’s self and to have an understanding for one’s self. Trying to establish an understanding of who we are, why we exist, and how we should live our lives is a question that everyone spends their lives trying to answer (source 1). Everyone has a different world view depending on multiple factors, which include: culture background, religion, experiences and people who they are affiliated with. Some popular views on the meaning of life include the widely…

Purpose Economy vs. Creative Economy Aaron Hurst describes the fourth economic stage as the purpose economy (following the knowledge economy). As humans, we have a fear of not mattering. Because of this, Hurst predicts our next economic era will be centered around our individual quest for purpose. Each of the previous economies have made mankind ‘faster, stronger, smarter,’ but now mankind is turning back to a more ‘human’ way of doing things. Purpose is a choice, according to Hurst, which…

In his poem, On the Nature of Things, Lucretius aims to dispel our fear of death through the increased use of reason and knowledge rather than the authority we usually rely on to help make sense of death, which is ordinarily religion. However, rather than allay our fears about death, Lucretius argues that religion thrives off the fear of death and can even exacerbate that fear so that its followers believe that their own authority as the only possible answer. Lucretius’ poem offers a…

that are necessary for selection to occur within a population. These three ingredients are variation, differential success, and heredity. Variation is the differences among individuals in the composition of their genes. Genes are what determine our traits, therefore variation is the differences in traits in the individuals in a population. The three causes of variation are mutations, sexual reproduction, and gene duplication. Differential success is the contribution of an individual in the…

In Anton Chekhov 's The Three Sisters, Irina is detailed as a naive young woman who believes that through work, happiness in life can be achieved. Irina, in the beginning, also has a passive vision of how to achieve personal life goals or dreams by continuously expressing interest of living in Moscow but never making plans to actually go. Masha, by the end of the play, discovers with Vershinin that love represents happiness between individuals and not the dissatisfying relationship that is…

Watches ‘The Bachelor,’” the poet Jacob Saenz uses unparalleled imagery and alternating tones to push the point that the speaker is jealous of “The Bachelor”, and that he wants his life to have purpose like the bachelor’s. He wants to change his life, and give it purpose and he sees finding love as giving his life purpose. The speaker is himself a bachelor, implying that he is single or, in other words, all alone. He watches ABC’s “The Bachelor” every night it airs on his couch all by his…

The second section of the Finding Meaning, Joy, and Happiness project focused on connecting with yourself. It included six different activities for us to take part in. The first activity prompted that we define three of our personal core values. These core values are embedded during our initial upbringing, and when we are able to live congruently with these values, we feel happier and more accomplished. For me personally, three of my most cherished core values include balance, openness, and…

experience emotion is a blessing life grants to every one of us. Our feelings bring us together as human beings. Our feelings are capable of creating friendships and relationships, as well as enemies and wars. However, without the two we would not be able to have that perfect balance essential to life. Without enemies, how could one fully appreciate our friendships and our loved ones? It would be a pity for something so precious, to be taken for granted so easily. With life comes balance, for…

Creation Myths A world of determination, a world of hope, a world of life. For the human race to flourish, the earth was created to about good. Creating the world of life had to be perfect to allow life to live on it. Before the earth was made for us we were in heaven, and not progressing. At one point in time there needed to be changed in the space of life. Two myths represent the: the New Zealand creation myth and the Iroquois creation myth. Both of these myths tell of the journey others,…

existentialists believe that there is no meaning to life and that we are all just born to die. They live their lives in complete freedom of choice and emphasize the individual. People make decisions based on what matters to them and not what is rational. The focus question of existentialists…