When one's life is unexamined...I'm sure that would mean your personality hasn't changed at all. People tend to change when they have an experience, they look back on it, reflect and either are indifferent about it or change their habits. Perhaps the way they handled the situation was too offensive, thus making a change in how they come off -- or they were too nice and got stepped on.
Say a person has gotten drunk every day of the week for a month, during this time he got arrested, beat up, and out-cast(ed). If he continues this, he is basically that soul-less body that runs as psychology has said before. Is that life worth living? The mundane tasks that he carries out day-by-day, to me, would seem like a life that's not worth living. But then again, to him it may be fun -- who knows? It's his mind and he may think it's worth living.
Examining your life sometimes makes it better. Perhaps that's a better way to say it. Is life in general worth living if we're going to die in the end?
Based upon what you believe in either your memories will be wiped and you'll be reborn/stay dead/etc. or you'll live in the afterlife in heaven or hell.
This brings up the creation of the almost always debatable topic of philosophy.
Examining your life sometimes makes it better. Perhaps that's a better way to say it. Is life in general worth living if we're going to die in the end?
Based upon what you believe in either your memories will be wiped and you'll be reborn/stay dead/etc. or you'll live in the afterlife in heaven or hell.
This brings up the creation of the almost always debatable topic of philosophy.
For the modern-day gadfly...well I'll just say that I've heard names here and there.
Rush Limbaugh to name one.....Howard Stern perhaps. Course, I've never heard these 2 speak on their broadcasts before but I've heard Howard Stern on his own and he can be pretty out there. But for him, I just think you have to be tough. I've also already heard enough of Rush to come to the conclusion that he is pretty irritating to those that listen to him. He may be going with the status quo by being in politics, but his ideas sound a little like...BZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Irritating, right?
He's already irritating to me since he talks about politics.
He's already irritating to me since he talks about politics.
You have a lot of good points here. I completely agree with your statement on how if people don't examine themselves at some point and reflect on past experiences where they've made mistakes they won't change. They'll continue to make the same mistakes in future events and never learn from them.
ReplyDeleteThe example you gave about the alcoholic is a very good way to explain both sides of the argument. Of course from an outsider's point of view,we would see his life as messed up and not worth living at all. But he may see this lifestyle as fun (at least for a while) and may have no desire to change.
Since we only get one life, everyone's goal should be to make it the best that they can, although many people don't. Of course we will all die in the end, but I don't think that's any reason to not live your life to the fullest.