- THIS SUBJECT DEALS WITH:
- Making People’s life most worth living.
- Helping people identify their objectives in life.
- Helping people to identify their own identity, recognizing their essence, giving an essence to themselves. Helping people reflect on what is most important in their lives. Helping people to be as freer as possible, in other words avoid alienation.
- ELEMENTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO MAKE PEOPLE’S LIFE MOS WORTH LIVING.
- Recognizing your most important objectives in life. In other words, what you want to achieve and to avoid in your life?
- Reflecting on what behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, reflections, ways of life, social, political and cultural systems … represent a help or, on the contrary, an impediment to experience our life as satisfactorily as possible.
- Honestly recognize who you are, what you do with your life, if you are consistent or not, if you are honest with yourself or not, if you are up to what your capabilities can offer you or not. Recognize and mobilize your best skills and abilities, identify the root of your problems, your negative passions or vices, and what is the best solution to overcome them.
- Suggesting you make realistic plans to guide your daily life to make the most of it consistently.
- Making people feel they are passionate. Feeling that you are passionate about something, feeling enormous interest, «wanting to know, enjoying, investigating, learning, experimenting, contributing … Feeling a certain» infatuation «, positive identification with an area.
- In the film Joe Black, Death will allow the journalist being alive while “it” keeps up feeling the intense interest in learning and experiencing the connected world with the journalist. Intense interest is the motor of life.
- In “Vivir” by Kurosawa, the main character really starts living when finding a clear objective that will provide a special valuable meaning to life.
- QUESTIONS:
- What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of existence?
- What is (ARE) the meaning, the purpose, that I give (offer) to my life?
- My life, most of my time and energy, are dedicated to achieving my main goals or other people’s interests?
- To what extent does my life contribute to promote others’ selfish enrichment by degrading my personal development and dignity?
- Is my life used as a simple instrument or tool for others’ selfish interests as a consequence of social prejudices, traditions, stereotypes, believes, manipulation…?
- Do I fall into the trap of confusing that myself and my life are what I think (what I prefer to see and believe) more than what I really do on a daily basis?
- COMPLEXITY / DIMENTIONS OF MEANING OF LIFE:
- Global interpretation of life as a whole
- Ethical dimension / social, religious, political, economical, scientific… dimensions.
- Individual-personal dimension / social dimension.
- Historical, geographical, gender, age, cultural, circumstantial… dimensions.
- ANSWERS / HISTORICAL ANSWERS.
- Subsist / keeping alive suffering as less as possible and living as well as possible
- Personal-social perfection. Experiencing life as a way to ending with terrible human experiences such as wars, poverty, illnesses, ignorance, slavery, injustice, alienation, discrimination…
- Experiencing life as a way to dignify your and others’ existence. As a way of promoting liberation, justice, love, truth, human development…
- Experiencing life as a way of enjoying it as much as possible.
- Experiencing life as a mean to another life from a religious point of view.
- Developing life as a way to become as rich and powerful as possible no matter the people you make suffer and the lives you destroy, the destruction you promote, the lies and manipulation you spread (we have many famous people in our History handbooks of this kind).
- FILMS, ARTICULES, THEATER, NOVELS, AUTHORS, CULTURAL MOVEMENTS…
- All times and cultures have been offering different meanings of life according to their circumstances, but I would recommend you to read the any author connected to the existentialist and vitalist movements.
- Film directors such as Pier P. Pasolini, Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman.
Nosotros damos sentido a nuestras vidas como muestra Ingmar Bergman:
¿Qué sentido tiene escribir para Pier P. Pasolini?
In » Ikuru (living)» Akira Kurosawa invites us to find an objective that will guide our life.
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