- 1 What is the meaning of life? Answers to great questions.
- 1.1 What is the meaning of life for a woman
- 1.2 What is the meaning of life for a man?
- 1.3 Where to find the meaning of life if you are alone?
Each of us, being a schoolboy and moving from class to class, at least once wrote an essay on the topic: " What is the meaning of human life on earth? . "It would seem that the complex question of strict teachers, how can you ask small children for answers to questions of being, if teenagers do not yet know how to live, who to become and what to do in this difficult world.
But everything is simple: the purpose of this task is to teach children to think: what is the meaning of human life, why do we all appear on this earth, what do we carry to the world? And if at least one schoolboy in the essay not only cites the great famous people, but his own thoughts and arguments, understands what values are the most important for him, then the teacher's goal is achieved: growing children try to comprehend life and their place in it.
However, in the search for the meaning of life, the statements of great minds who lived long and reached enlightenment, who saw other epochs, countries and cities, can help.
Where do you go to a young person to find intelligent thoughts of great people about the meaning of life?
What is the meaning of life? Answers to great questions.
Different people are looking for themselves in life in completely different ways. Lazy teenagers and adults, day and night mindlessly sit pants in offices as mid-level managers, and spend the evenings in front of television screens without thinking about such complex issues as searching for the meaning of a person's life on earth.
At best they go online, look for winged expressions and wise aphorisms of great people - philosophers, writers, politicians, musicians, artists - read them without thinking about the depth of what has been said. As a result, they do not apply knowledge in life.
This is a very simple, primitive way - to flow downstream, never to answer, not to take responsibility for what is happening in your life, blaming everyone and everything for all the troubles. Sometimes it seems that the whole misfortune of mankind is that people simply do not simply ask themselves questions. All answers to questions they receive from the media, and thoughts that "push" into the masses, become, like, and their own thoughts about the environment. A person has ready answers to questions, invented ideals and excuses for his own failure( ... the government is guilty,. .. the ecology is bad. .. there is no time).
But it's worth stopping and asking yourself: Who am I?what am I doing and why?am I happy?what makes me happy?why do not I have what I want? What did I do to be happy? What do I live for? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MY LIFE?
After you can answer these questions, accustom yourself to asking questions and looking for answers to them.
You can look through smart books and find great statements of the sages who have attained enlightenment through hard work and working on themselves. It is necessary to pay tribute to such "seekers": clever phrases of people who have left a mark on art, culture, science and politics are very useful, because they are brief and capacious, full of wisdom and depth, in a few words the philosophy of the whole life of this or that politician,poet or writer.
Let's sum up the small subtotals: the Internet helps other sloths in the search for the meaning of life, because the problem of finding literature on this topic is completely leveled;various sites offer the most beautiful words and sayings of such great people as Omar Khayyam, Nietzsche, A. Chekhov, FM Dostoyevsky, Dale Carnegie. One thing is bad: it's someone else's life, someone else's philosophy and other people's conclusions. ..
It's not very difficult in terms of moral search and the life of people who are looking for the answer to the question "What is the meaning of a person's life not to the earth" in the Bible.
If you ask an Orthodox Christian to write an essay on the topic of what the meaning of life is, he will answer unequivocally: the Christian's happiness is in righteous life on earth and trying to deserve paradise beyond the line, in another dimension. .. For people accustomed to believe that God is the creator of the universeand everything living, everything is unequivocal in life: there is good and evil, there are righteous deeds and unrighteous, charity is the personal choice of everyone. And, if such a person dreams of deserving a place in paradise, he does nothing but good in this life, does not acquire and does not yield to pride. They do not need to know and understand who or what actually caused the earth and life on it, they just believe in God and that death is nothing more than a line between this life and eternal life, and only good givesman eternal existence in paradise, only so the human soul will keep warm. Of course, such an opinion has the right to exist, faith, be it Christianity or Islam, is a personal matter for everyone and it is good if it helps people to find an answer to the question of what is the meaning of a person's life on earth.
Any biblical parable teaches a believer to follow the behests of God.
The problem is that the religiosity of modern man reflects the spiritual level of personality development, and if a person chooses good only from the fact that he is afraid of hell after death, that's not so good. Well should be the only possible choice of people , regardless of whether they believe in some creator or not, consider eternal existence possible or not. Consciousness of modern man is a huge storehouse of thoughts, feelings, knowledge and sensations, just believing in God is an opportunity to live easily and not to wonder why we came to this world, not to think, not to answer complex questions and not to search for your own meaninglife. Absolute faith in God was good in the Middle Ages, when people did not know the causes of many processes on earth, but now, in order to gain some knowledge, one only needs to want it, the belief in the creator is not allowing oneself to get better.
If a person has experienced a stage of absolute faith, he begins to seek his self-determination. Many girls at some point wonder
What is the meaning of life for a woman
If earlier this question could be answered unequivocally: the meaning of a woman's life is to get married, have a baby and raise him, but now everything is much more complicated and together withthe more interesting. Nowadays, the appointment of a woman can consist not only in her having a husband and a child, but in taking care of her career, conducting spiritual searches, engaging in creativity and with what the soul lies. And yet, even now, the meaning of a woman's life is primarily love. Not necessarily in the love of a man and a child, but also in the love of the world, nature, work and all around.
A person who radiates love, preferring not to receive, but to give - lucky by definition, can exist in any conditions and see good in everything.
No one has canceled gender self-determination even in the insane conditions of the modern world, and therefore young men also sooner or later always ask themselves the question
What is the meaning of life for a man?
This is indeed a very important and complex issue, and even hundreds of years ago there was no unambiguous answer to it.
This can not be said at all and abstractly, every man must himself try to seek an understanding of the reasons for his arrival in this world.
It used to be that all men are warriors, and the meaning of their life is only in this. Is it really? Now that wars are being waged in many parts of the globe, it is more important for a real man not to fight and destroy, but to restore peace and create.
In a man's life, something can turn out and not work, but this does not mean that a man should stop in search of truth and knowledge of the world, be afraid and do not take any steps.
The paradox is that very often we think too much and are afraid and therefore do not take any steps. In this sense, men are more correctly organized than women: a man who knows that all people will die anyway, is unlikely to become afraid of anything and ask permission for his life from unknown mythical creatures. The meaning of a man's life is in the absolute freedom of choice, action and his own path.
When fathers bring up sons like that, bold and strong men, real personalities, grow out of the latter.
People who live today, young and not so, are always interested in learning from famous writers and poets, what they think is the meaning of human life on earth.
Each of the classics of Russian and foreign literature answers this question in its own way.
So, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy at some point chose the way of non-resistance to evil, and his views on this are set forth in the novel-epic "War and Peace".
By the mouth of the classic Tolstoy, his hero says: the thoughts of the young and vain Andrei Bolkonsky, in the heat of battle, who was seriously wounded and for the first time in a long time glanced in the high eternal sky is the reasoning of the writer himself. This Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy understands how small a person is before the grandeur of nature, how ridiculous are all the desires of a tiny little man on a vast land.
No less interesting in this novel are the searches of Pierre Bezukhov, who survived the growth from a weak-willed devil and a reveler to an exemplary family man and thinker. The spiritual values of the adult Pierre are unequivocal: love, family, active civic position. For a modern Russian person, such concepts are close and important, which is why the novel has not lost its relevance today.
And here are other classics of Russian literature - Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov and Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko - in their prose and verses many people helped to find the answer to the
question. What is the meaning of life if you are alone?
Many of the heroes of these poets and writers are very lonely, Eugene Onegin, Grigory Pecherin and Mtsyri generally spawned a whole generation of desperate lonely fatalists, sad, lost and abandoned, simultaneously suffering from loneliness and poorly coexisting with other people.
The heroes of Korolenko have a different story: they suffer from loneliness, because they are unlike the others, and the meaning of life is sought not in denying life itself, but in engaging in creativity, science, in trying to find kindred souls and gain human warmth.
Young and adult people can learn life from the works of great classics, and at different ages the same works are perceived in different ways, so it is useful to reread Eugene Onegin, The Hero of Our Time, the Blind Musician at different periods of his life.
It's also useful sometimes to read Latin sayings. First, everything written in Latin sounds very beautiful. Secondly, every Latin phrase has a very deep philosophical meaning that helps a person understand what the meaning of life is in general.
Presentation, miniature, composition - it's nothing more than forms, and the search for the meaning of life begins and ends not in the school walls.
What is the conclusion of all this? Of course, everyone independently answers the question, what is the meaning of life.
And if to describe in a nutshell the whole article, THE SENSE OF LIFE IN THAT TO LOVE, BE HAPPY AND SOW LOVE!