1."You have 50 years at best left,what are you living for?" I saw this sentence writen on the ground incidentally today.2.Something shocked me at that moment when I saw it. What am I living for?It sounds like a philosophical issue, but have you ever thought about it in earnest? When you are asked your motivation for studying, your first response may be "for your parents". Can we live for ourselves?
3.Living for ourselves doesn't mean we are selfish or we care about just ourselves. We have only one life,and the passed time will never come back.We must carry the burder and take the
responsibilities that life gives.However,don't live your life like paying the debt.You deserve a better life which includes not only duty but also your dream.Try to imagine,if you even don't have your ambition,where could your happiness be?4.Living for ourselves means to treasure the things which you really cherish.
5.However,how can we know what is our jealous thing?Maybe we can draw a conclusion from Helen Keller's words.She is a blind but successful woman who writes a book named
spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon? I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me trough my years of darkness. You, too, would you want to let your eyes rest long on thee things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.'6.People die,things to cave,everything that seems so solid,it's meaningless.All that left is the gestures we make.Gestures and air,that's all we remember.
7.Like the night-blooming cereus in the picture(left side), life is ephemeral,we should treasure it,but how can we know if it is worthy of not?8.Pavel Korchagin,the dramatis personae of the celebrated book , had said,'Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past. So live that, dying, he might say: all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world-the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.'
9.We should live with ambition. However, I think the ultimate goal of life should be what contibution we have made to the mankind rather than what we have taken.
10.One life,live it!
I agree with that living for ourselves doesn't mean we are selfish.We'd better to share the space,we should give our friends like animals the enough space and freedom to live.We can not hunt for their fur.In my opinion,that means life is equal.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your composition about life. It let me begin to think about what I am living for and goal for my studing . As you mention above, I think the living is carrying for ourself rather than our parents. we should be responsible for our life , which means complete all the thing that we guarantee to achieve. To cherishing all possession we have , in fact , we are able to gain the happiness of life .
ReplyDeletethank you for essay,Grace! your essay make me think about my goal and What i am living for again. A lot of things are really important in our life, so we have to think about our life and we have to remember that life is happy and be thankful for.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your interesting essay!
ReplyDeleteIt passed one month and a half since I started studying at MSU. Before I came to MSU, I had my goal for studying clearly. However, these days, I have been thinking my goal of life, and why I am studying in the U.S.
Your essay helped me to answer these questions. Thank you.
What are we living for? Is very important question, in ma religion and my culture we can answer this question so easily we live to obey Allah, and to help each other, I think this question depend in what do you believe, we are here in this life to worship Allah and to think him about what he gave us. We are living to recognize his power and greatness because “We are from Good and to him our returnee”
ReplyDeleteI am the master of myself,so I can choose my life.I am living for myself,not for others.I did not think about this quenstion before.But I think I should think about what is the final goal of me after read your essay.
ReplyDeleteI always ask myself what will I do If I have only three days left. Sometimes there are no answers to some questions, such as to life, to mankind, to the world we live. However, something can be noticed that may help you to partly understand what life is. Religion, belief, faith, believing is a nice wish for ourselves, we are not noly the skin since we borned, but also to hold the faith, to live the better life we wonder have. This is a eternal topic for all human beings..
ReplyDeleteYep,people are living for the the same reason.They are almost same.The most important common one is make us better,also people are living not only for themselves.People living for family,friends,and other things that are important for them.
ReplyDelete1."You have 50 years LEFT at best *. What are you living for?" I saw this sentence writen on the ground incidentally today.
ReplyDelete2.Something shocked me at that moment when I saw it. What am I living for? It sounds like a philosophical issue, but have you ever thought about it in earnest? When you are asked your motivation for studying, your first response may be "for your parents". Can we live for ourselves?
3.Living for ourselves doesn't mean we are selfish or we care about just ourselves. We have only one life,and the passed time will never come back. We must carry the BURDEN and take the responsibilities that life gives.However, don't live your life like paying the debt.You deserve a better life which includes not only duty but also your dream.Try to imagine, if you even don't have AN ambition,where could your happiness be?
4.Living for ourselves means to treasure the things which you really cherish.
5.However,how can we know what * our jealous thing IS (?)? Maybe we can draw a conclusion from Helen Keller's words. She WAS blind but A successful woman who WROTE BOOKS *. She says,'Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had three more days to see. If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon? I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me THROUGH my years of darkness. You, too, would * want to let your eyes rest long on thee things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.'
6.People die,things to cave(?), everything that seems so solid (?),it's meaningless.All that left is the gestures we make. Gestures and air. That's all we remember.
7.Like the night-blooming cereus in the picture(left side), life is ephemeral. We should treasure it, but how can we know if it is worthy of not?
8.Pavel Korchagin,the dramatis personae of the celebrated book , * said,'Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past. So live that, dying(?), he might say: all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world-the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.'
9.We should live with ambition. However, I think the ultimate goal of life should be what contibution we have made to the mankind rather than what we have taken.(?)
10. One life,live it!
Finding a purpose of life is sometimes hard; you wonder why you are alive. You may think that it does not make any difference in the world even if you die. Part of it is true; the world still goes around even if you don't exist. But living itself has a meaning. Who are happy to see you? Who will be sad to see you die? Your life is not just for yourself; but for others, too.
Nice words. I like your paragraph so much. It makes me think softly about what I am doing...
ReplyDeleteRight, some times I feel so bad that I do not know what i am doing in the future, and until now it is still not clear. We people awalys need to do some thing wrong first, then we can learn it. I so hate it but it is the way we have to pass. Some disappointment, I still need think about what i am doing.
i agree with khalifa's comment, why we confused to this problem is that we have no religion, mostly in China ,people have no religion, that's why they always think about this problem.!
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