Your Life on Earth: Philosophizing Purpose and Place in the 21st Century
Reflection
For me personally, this project was all over the place in my mind. We would learn one thing and I would agree with whoever said it, then we would read something else that said the exact opposite and I would agree with that too. I learned so many different perspectives about how you should live your life, how you should feel when specific things happen, and how you know that you are doing it all right. During this project we did numerous things to gain all of this information, reading books and parts from books philosophers wrote, watch movies, research. We also had many different methods of showing how we felt during the whole project; writing in a daily journal, socratic seminar (with pre-writes and post-writes about what we thought), essays and intertextual claims about things we read or saw, etc. This project really made all of us dig into why we are here, and helped us come up with our own personal reasons. My personal philosophy is based around happiness and liveliness, being willing to step out of your comfort zone to experience the world and see all it has to offer. My inspiration behind this is my need to explore new places, I feel trapped when I am in the same place for too long and I feel that a lot of people have similar issues, my goal in life is to see as much as I can and live life to the fullest rather than just living and dying with no purpose.
I gained a lot of new knowledge during this project, I had to really dig deep into my mind to figure out what I truly believe in. Something I had never really thought about was living a fully happy life, Aristotle says that you don't know if you are living a happy life until you are on your death bed, I agree with him. I think that when you are looking back on everything that happened in your life, you will remember all the good times, they will stick out to you more than the times that weren't so great. When you are thinking back and you are satisfied with everything that happened, you know you have lived a happy life, you never know in a specific moment if you are going to be happy about what you are doing when you are old but thinking about it isn't what you should be doing, you should just try and have as many happy moments as you can, and this is where my philosophy comes into play. If you are doing the same things every day for your entire life, you are going to look back and wonder why you didn't "live", why you didn't see the world, but if you are out experiencing new things, you won't think about why you didn't do this or that, you will be thinking about the good times.
I gained a lot of new knowledge during this project, I had to really dig deep into my mind to figure out what I truly believe in. Something I had never really thought about was living a fully happy life, Aristotle says that you don't know if you are living a happy life until you are on your death bed, I agree with him. I think that when you are looking back on everything that happened in your life, you will remember all the good times, they will stick out to you more than the times that weren't so great. When you are thinking back and you are satisfied with everything that happened, you know you have lived a happy life, you never know in a specific moment if you are going to be happy about what you are doing when you are old but thinking about it isn't what you should be doing, you should just try and have as many happy moments as you can, and this is where my philosophy comes into play. If you are doing the same things every day for your entire life, you are going to look back and wonder why you didn't "live", why you didn't see the world, but if you are out experiencing new things, you won't think about why you didn't do this or that, you will be thinking about the good times.