Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living?

"The unexamined Life is not worth living" 
-Socrates


Is the unexamined life worth living?  I think so. This means, to me, that simply living is not enough. You have to question and analyze life to reveal things both unique and new. If you don't, then you are merely wasting your life with ignorance and bitter acceptance. 
What do I think? What activities and traits that waste your life are simply opinions. People who chose not to question their lives probably have good reasons. The truth may be more disturbing or more horrifying than they can comprehend. Ignorance is bliss. Can you imagine a  future world where there were no lies and we knew everything? Every dark secret known, every lie disproved, every question answered. To some, this would end wars and create peace among the human race. On the contrary, the result will be anarchy. We would know all the evil that has happened,  that is happening, and that will happen. Could we all live together knowing the evil we are capable of , the evil we have done, and the evil we will do to each other?
Also, if the point of examining your life is to not waste it, why not just embrace and celebrate life instead? If you simply ask questions all your life, you'll never be happy.  There will always be someone to disprove you and answers will only lead to more questions. In the beginning, you were ignorant, and in the end you will be ignorant, right? Its not like you keep examining, you will answer all life's questions. so what's the point? to die a little smarter?  

1 comment:

  1. I would rather die a happy and ingnorant fool then live a thousand lives as a stressed lonly man who questions his own existance. just be happy that you have a life and the knowledge that you carry. my friend was killed because he didn't have the opportuntiy to enjoy his. he died because he questioned his life and he moved away from the neiborhood and got shot because he thought to hard about life. remember that a life is short. enjoy it while you have the chance

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