Life

Value of Life Working Title Steve Jobs commencement says that we should do what we love, and I agree with him. His life story about his struggles and challenges he faced to get where he is is quite amazing. He gives inspiration and hope to those who need it most. Jobs had a unique way at looking at life and not that many people will agree with him and the way he seems to value life. Jobs didn’t finish college he doesn’t have any degree of any kind but was able to overcome his challenges in life…

she has to move with her father who has hardly been in her life. Imagine having to go through that, you just lost your mother…

a different school for my bachelors. In the broad spectrum of life mine has been a whole lot of less interesting compared to fellow students I have encountered with. Where some have their own lives planned out in detail, I always struggled with overthinking every step and decisions in life. I have always taken the safe route and never been daring with any aspect of life. And through this event I have come into the realization that life is too short to live it, full of constant worry or regrets,…

Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life uses a unique mixture of linear and avant-garde techniques to prove his philosophy that everything in the universe is formed through both nature and through grace. On one hand, the film explores the dynamics of a family living in 1950’s American Suburbia, yet it also explores the vastness of the universe, from its mysterious creation to its glorious demise, and countless moments in between. Though a linear Hollywood film might make these events out to be…

man named Wilbur; he was a very dull and plain man. Although it seems like an exaggeration, it would not be a hyperbole to state that Wilbur could possibly be the most boring man on earth. Allow me to elucidate and go further into detail, Wilbur's life consists of the same routine everyday; Wilbur sits at home and reads the newspaper, followed by lunch, and then the afternoon news. The only semi-interesting thing about Wilbur is that he likes his subs cut into thirds instead of halves. One might…

Looking at the Past and Present to Find Meaning in my Life Several topics discussed in Humanities thus far are topics Dante seemed to be knowledgeable about; therefore, his interpretation and knowledge he had of these topics would possibly allow an enhanced understanding of how the topics make meaning in my life. Despite the probability that Dante and I would have different experiences and preferences in art, literature, and music, similarities would most likely exist. On my pilgrimage, past…

Life Evaluating? Or Life Changing? (My three favorite passages from Meditation’s) What does it mean to have a favorite of something? A better question would be why do humans have favorites? It could be because the thing that is favored has significant meaning in their life, or speaks to them in a way that other things do not. This could be in the form of objects, people, music, books, places, etc. Favorites are chosen because they have special meaning in one way or another, even if the human…

woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.” Henry David Thoreau explains the importance of living in the moment and taking the most out of life. As I examined this excerpt from Thoreau's book Walden, questions arose: was I sucking the marrow out of life? Was I spending my time on earth as fully as I wanted to? I began to think about how short life actually was. Who would have thought that when those dare-devil millennials were on to…

Life is defined as an opportunity for continued viability. This means that everyone is given a chance to change things. Some may choose to change the world for the better, while others change the world for the worse. Part One of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is called “Life,” and there are multiple reasons as to why this specific word was chosen as the title. George and Margaret Gey were a pair of doctors that had a specific goal, as showed in this quote, “The Geys were determined to grow…

During our life time, we always ask ourselves “how shall we live?” This question doesn’t simply address the issue about how to live our lives, but it also helps find and confirms our identities. It is not easy to address this only four-word question. We may have a lot of good ideas about our lives, but we somehow could not use real life experiences to confirm their validity. We also may have good experience toward the issue of finding our lifestyles and identities, but they may never have…