Life

seem to be much use to be anything else.” Like him, I feel it is best to live an optimistic life. Optimism is within all of us, but for it to grow it needs to be nurtured. I have been blessed to have many sources which encourage optimism in my life,including family, friends, failures, and faith. Family is a source of optimism that many people take for granted, but I know their importance in my daily life and the influence they have on me. My two older sisters and parents have been good…

part how our world works and there’s no changing that, but we can change how it effects us. It doesn’t have to be a person’s death that gets to you, it could be a family pet that you’ve lived with your whole life. It’s important that you live life to the fullest and don’t waste it. A person 's life a finite resources so it is valuable so there’s no reason to waste it worrying about running out of it. The part of Steve Jobs speech that really resonated with me was when he talked about how…

pain that might come then. Most people do not want to endure that pain and I have heard many people in my life time say “I just want it to be quick and painless” when speaking about their death. Again this is a dark subject, but the problem is that it is reality and it is in our DNA that we do not want to suffer and experience pain. This brings up the question of: Is it human to end a human's life? And anyone's natural response to that is an immediate gasp followed…

Gandhi’s statement is very true to some extent and it applies to most of our lives. If we are just given what we desire then what are we going to work towards during our life. We cannot just have everything we want handed to us because it is important to have goals and aims in life because what is an aimless life. These goals and aims give us motivation and keeps us focused and undistracted. Gandhi’s saying basically means that being lazy is very comfortable and fun but it gets old and makes…

Finding the “Good Life” When envisioning the “good life,” we often imagine immeasurable happiness, where all burdens in life slip into oblivion. Unfortunately, this world cannot exist for most individuals, posing the question, what is a “good life” in the life we are given? And once we have found the good life, does that mean we have found happiness, which defined here is the highest good for man. On the journey towards a unique “good life” many have attempted isolation, others have acquired a…

Many, when they read Life of Pi, read it only as a story. These people see the book simply as an uplifting tale of a boy overcoming Nature, taming a tiger, and surviving at sea for months. However these people only see the surface of what the book actually has to offer, instead of its true depths. Because, at its heart, Life of Pi is actually an intense allegorical tale, a psychological character study in the vein of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Throughout the story Pi is faced with…

As life pulls us in many different directions with work, school, and activities, it is easy to forget about what truly matters. We get so overwhelmed with filling our day with obligations that we forget to stop and ask some of life’s most basic questions. In order for us to live a meaningful life, we need to start analyzing who we are as humans and what that means for us. Although the three most basic questions of philosophy- Who am I? What am I? What am I doing here? – seem easy to answer, many…

correctly defines the meaning of a good life. Is there a good life without an examined life? Is there even such a thing? If so, can you have one without the other? Is it something left to just our own imagination? What would it take for this so-called “good life” to be achieved? Without accurate examinations of thoughts from within yourself, the good life could certainly be jeopardized, but worst may never come into existence. The words by Socrates “the unexamined life is not worth living”…

is the meaning of life”. Everybody has their own idea of what the meaning of life is. Although, if there is no clear cut answer, does a true answer actually exist? There is no direct meaning of life, only to survive and enjoy life the best you can. Humans are clearly nothing more than intelligent animals. Animals exist to purely survive and thrive. As humans our main goal is survival. Survival is our meaning of life. We use things such as happiness, love and wealth to enjoy life while we simply…

The novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel centers around an innocent, religious and vegetarian Indian boy, Pi Patel. However, when Pi finds himself stranded on the Pacific Ocean after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, and faces starvation and the possibility of death, he abandons his ethics in order to survive. When investigators asked Pi what happened on the lifeboat, Pi tells them a story with zoo animals that have survived the shipwreck as well, one of which is an adult Bengal tiger. When asked by the…