So where in this world do we look for inspiration ?
Do we really need inspiration in life, and not only that? W t f is inspiration?
"The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something"
So I've just finished college, and I must say the years gone by fast. Now I just sit here thinking what the hell am I going to be doing the next 2 months.
Shall I just sit at home and do nothing. Shall I find a job, or should I just stare at the wall and quite literally do nothing?
I mean, I'm the type of guy that feels unfulfilled if I'm not doing something useful to help society, I like to call it “The
Curse of an Activist”.
I like to think my life will have meaning. And that one day I can look back and think, I really did make a difference. But what does a life of meaning actually mean, is there a set criteria to meet to say that we have had a meaningful life, after all the world we live in revolves around meeting criteria and achieving certain standards to reach certain levels in our social hierarchy, it’s just the way the dynamics of our society work. [Would a homeless man look down upon a millionaire?].
I think many people would say that there is no criteria to have meaningful life, it depends on what the individuals who’s life it is think is meaningful. Fair do’s to these people. But at the end of the day, is your life really meaningful if it’s just you that thinks it is. There will obviously be bias in your assessment, and you maybe delusional and trick your self into making your self-thinking you did more meaningful things than is actually true. So there for it may be up to the people around you, who know you, who know of you who decide if your life is meaningful or not.
Many people go about this world doing their day-to-day thing, how many actually question this world and what we are taught? Has humanity reached the point where it no longer questions and just obeys what is seen as the social norm? To me that seems depressing and I hope it’s not true. But an Irishmen I met last week said to me, ignorance is truth. And I just thought… that is so TRUE.
If I wasn’t in the mind frame I’m in now, or the position. Would I just conform to what society, my peers, and the establishment expect. And if I did would I be happy?
Right now I’m thinking would I be better of in the world if I didn’t know what I know, and if I just did what a lot of others do, and just go on to go on to go on in life. Would my life have meaning then. Because then I would be having the same life as a lot of other people, but I doubt that a meaningful life is one that has to have a certain level of individuality to it. But if it did need that level, wouldn’t there be criteria for it? So a meaningful life would t0 some extent have to reach a standard.
All I’m wondering is what I’m going to do this summer, will it be meaning full, or wasted. And of course my opinion and what both scenarios would like is individual to my self and not everyone will agree on how I see it. So the concluding question is. If in my opinion my summer is meaningful, would it be meaningful to someone else.
Peace
