Final meaningful Essay

In the course of this year our main goal has been to find out what makes life meaningful or meaningless. What makes life meaningful and how people live there lives meaningful or meaningless while opening our minds to newer ideas. We will never have a definite definition of what is a good and meaningful life but we can share our own ideas of what we think, thought we may not agree we are all humans and we all live together on this planet. The question “what is our purpose on earth?” and “what were we put here for?” I find is asked a lot by people. I personally think we were put here for a reason so why not make the best of it, life is a playground, go have fun with it. How do we know where not living in a dream, that what we see is real. I think being able to question our own reality is also part of living a good and meaningful life, if we believe everything we hear what would our world be like. We live in a society that has a double standard. If you don’t follow the morals of the society then you aren’t living a good and meaningful life, and if your following the rules then you are living a good and meaningful life. I think fulfilling your own personal happiness is all you need to live a good and meaningful life. Why should anyone have control over how you make your own happiness. In our society we are taught from a young age what is right and wrong. But how do we really know what is right and wrong when the only thing we have to base it off from is what we have been told. The story we read in class about the guy who had to choose between saving an infant baby on train tracks or a expensive car he spent his whole life saving for is a good example of how everyone would raise there hand to save the baby because it’s a breathing living thing unlike the car that is just a accessory. How do you determine the importance of something, and are you a bad person for choosing the “materialistic” item over the human being. How do we really know what the right choices in life are. I say whatever makes you happy because I feel your own happiness is the only thing I can control. You cant control how society sees you, but you can control what makes you happy and I think if your happy what’s wrong with life. I find that when I’m happy I don’t focus on the little “bad” things going on in life.

The idea of a good and meaningful life affects us physically as well as mentally. We look upon fat people as bad and skinny people as good. That because your fat your not living a good and meaningful life because your too busy eating and damaging your body. You will never see an “over weight” male or female on the cover of vanity fare or Glamour because its not the idea they want to sell. The only place you will see an overweight person on a magazine is if its TMZ or another tabloid magazine. Our society is very superficial in the in the idea that only a size 2 person is beautiful when we all come in different shapes and sizes. Why let society telling how we should look control and affect how we live a good life.

At the beginning of the year we went outside and asked random people in the street was meaningful in there lives. A lot of people said there friends, family and children. Money, love and there pets. Being able to live comfortably without having to worry about if the bills are late and if you have enough money to get through the week I think is a good life in my opinion. Then there’s people like Paris Hilton who were given all the money they have and didn’t have to work for it. Do they deserve it? Are they living good and meaningful lives because it was handed to them? We look at this as not being fair but how can we judge other people. At the end of the day you are the only one who controls your life and you get to make any decision you want, do what makes you happy. But in my opinion you should go outside and do something fun because sitting on your ass all day doesn’t seam so fun. theres always options, choose the best one.