Thursday, September 11, 2014

The Unexamined Life is not worth living??

I'm not sure whether or not if I completely agree or disagree. I think that living your life entirely is worth it regardless if you actually question and speculate at the many aspects of the many forms of life. But I also think that what also makes life so spectacular and invigorating is that we spend our whole lives wondering about why and how we are here. "Here" may not just be the world, or school or even a particular career (though that is also an important part of most people’s livelihood). I believe that "here" is something deeper and harder to really understand and/or explain. "Here" could be the path that we have chosen to walk or was forced into living through. Whether life has been relatively easy sailing or constant storms no matter where you may turn. What makes it easier to handle living life and continuing on that hard journey is thinking in more complex way and wondering more about oneself and our purpose of being alive. Although I think living life without questioning anything and just living and experiencing whatever may come is a type of life that many people may have, crave, or agree with, but having doubts and questioning the norms of society and also challenging it is what makes us have something to live for. So I guess I now agree that "The Unexamined Life is not worth living" and I think/feel it's mainly because through doubting, questioning, challenging, and -hopefully- changing what we mainly go along with in our daily lives, it defines our history and humans and it also defines our individuality. So through examining our lives I believe we then develop the opportunity to discover our meaning, our truths, our uniqueness, and our worth as living being.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with everything that you've said in this post but especially related to it because of the way that your blog was written. Your thought process about this question was evident in your writing and helped me to understand and connect with your ideas…which is great :)

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