Growing up, I’ve always had someone by my side to help guide me down the correct path through life. My mom has always been here for me each and every day of my life to instill the values I need to make the best of my talents and to make the success that is awaiting me, come forth. My mom has taught me the difference from right and wrong. She has taught me the difference from good and evil, if evil really even exists.
In one’s life, their values help build what kind of person they are. In my opinion, honesty, faithfulness, and dedication are the best values that one can have. Firstly, honesty allows others to know who you are and are able to trust you. Secondly, faithfulness helps you from hurting others around you. Finally, the value of dedication helps people become more responsible. Just as I believe that good values show that you are a good person, bad values reflect just as much about one’s character. Lying, cheating, and even having no values at all, in my opinion, are some of the bad values one may have. First, lying hurts many people that it affects and no one ever trusts you. Next, cheating never helps anyone; it always hurts them in the long run of things.
Everyone seems to have a philosophy on life – what would be the point of living everyday without some absolute, underlying purpose to existence? When there is an unknown in life, man seeks to know, right? This has been true throughout time whether it be philosophies about nature, religion, wahtever. The fact is that we do not like having unknowns in our life; we don’t like having variables. Man has been engaged in a relentless pursuit of knowledge of himself and his surroundings from day one, and we have made some really incredible advances in science because of it. However, beyond the teachings of science, mostly composed of hard facts and theories, there lies spirituality. Why are we here? Who or what created us? Is there a God? What is the universe? What exactly is the human condition? And once these questions are answered, how should we live our lives? I have spent days on end in my head, and only more questions have developed from it. I only wish constructing a life philosophy was that simple. These questions have tormented man incredibly and without a shred of relief. It is an endless game, coming up with the answers, and is often made up of one step forward and two steps back. It is also equally difficult for me to put together a life philosophy because I am only eighteen years old. I have not seen everything that I want and need to see from this lifetime. I have not gained the wisdom it takes to form my own personal philosophies.
On a totally different note, the whole idea of "blind faith" doesn't work for me. Why should I give my life to a man that I never met whose only proof of existence is spelled out in a book? I don't believe in heaven, although I would like to because it seems like a fairytale. They believe they are better human beings because they are donating money to a needy cause, which makes them feel better about themselves. This accounts for the reason that fatty foods appeal to our taste buds so much. This is because our bodies have been trained since the beginning of our existence to obtain as much fat as possible and store it. When one is willing to die for a cause, it is a selfish act because they have built such a state of importance in their minds surrounding one cause that they believe in so strongly. What if it is all just a lie, and none of it exists? Then what will they have to believe in? They are willing to sacrifice their lives for the fleeting feeling that they have done something truly great because they believe they are fulfilling their meaning of life. For example, the whole idea of the Hindu faith is to keep each member of society satisfied with his or her position. One can go out in nature and physically prove that evolution and natural selection are occurring, however one cannot do the same with God, Jesus, etc. They simply pick from the many "pre-packaged" philosophies out there, instead of taking the time to come up with a detailed, honest one, themselves. It is most definitely the easiest route aka “the bandwagon” effect. Nature knows everything as well as the outcomes of its actions, always possessing a reason for them. As time went by and man became much more civilized, this instinct was filtered out, however it still lies deep within us today in not only the way we act from our selfishness. After seventy or so years of experience, can one accurately assess what he has learned along the way? My theory on the universe is that this is not the end of parasitism; There is world upon world inside us, just as the Earth is only a speck inside another entity such as the universe, and so on. In our world, the only truly important idea is happiness. Man's search for happiness. The human has parasites living inside of him in the form of bacteria just as we are the parasites of Earth. We are living inside this single entity because without it, we could not exist. Religion seems too "man-made" for me. It accomplishes this by preaching that if one successfully completes his or her life in the caste system, he or she will be reincarnated to a higher level in the next life.
As I have mentioned, philosophy of life will be different between each person. A person's philosophy will vary depending on ones life experience. I believe that no two people will have seen life in the same way simply because we were not made to. There would be many people that have similar philosophy on life but none of them would be exactly the same. I will share my ideas and thoughts on what is my philosophy of life. The way that I have experienced life has made me change my way thinking more then once, am sure it will change again. What is my purpose in life? What is anybody’s purpose in life? These are questions that we all deal with, why are we here, what is the point of life? What if we weren't ever meant to know, just live it? What if that part of the reason is to be here for someone else? We are here to help each other grow; Now that would be a perfect sense of sanity. If I would have asked this questions three or four years ago I would have answered with, I have no idea. Back then I really had know idea why I am here, or what I am supposed to be doing. It seems that all I cared about was to go party. I would live with the philosophy of, live one day at a time. Now that I have spent time looking inside myself and examining my own philosophies, I can begin to understand the purpose of life.
Experience makes us who we are. It shapes our minds and opinions, our likes and dislikes. Therefore, it is difficult to have one ideal definition of certain concepts, such as justice, virtue, and an ideal society. Our experiences color our opinions of people different than ourselves and even our opinion of the dark. The only way to create one perception of reality would be to systematically force everyone to have the same experiences. This would diminish the richness and quality of life. I have no idea where I will be ten years down the road, but I plan on never forgetting my own philosophies at this age. I plan to build from what I know and will know, and take my ideas as far as I can. I know that I will get out of it as much effort as I put in. Hopefully, I will have a better understanding of who I am.
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