Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living

What makes life worth living? Everyone has their own answer because we all have our own views on what is valuable to us and what is not. How is it that we find these answers though? I believe that answers do not just reveal themselves to us, but that we have to question ourselves and things around us to find what we are looking for.

Constant questioning of our motives and our surrounding helps us to stay aware, understand, and improve. A person that reflects on their life will come to see what it is that is valuable to them, what they truly believe in, and what in life has given them a real reason to be happy. These things will help a person find their true purpose in life. People who examine their own life will also have a chance to look back on their past mistakes and prevent them from happening in the future.

Questioning our surrounding helps us with our survival and our well being. By understanding our surrounding, we can get a better understanding of why people around us act the way they do and it helps us realize that there are many things in the world that we do not know about. Knowing these things will help us to accept the way some things are and it will motivate us to learn more.

We are born with the ability to process and retrieve information. Why should we waste something that is given to us? So many things can be revealed to us if we just question things. The unexamined life is definitely not worth living.

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