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 to be a difficult question of strict teachers, how can one demand from young children answers to questions of being, if teenagers still do not know how to live, what 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 bring to the world? And if even one student in the essay does not just quote great famous people, but his own thoughts and arguments, understands what values are central to him, then the teacher’s goal has been achieved: growing children are trying to comprehend life and their place in it.
However, the statements of great minds who lived long ago and achieved enlightenment, who saw other eras, countries and cities, can help in the search for the meaning of life.
Where can a young man go to find the clever thoughts of great people about the meaning of life?
What is the sense of life? Answers to great questions.
Different people look for themselves in life in completely different ways. Lazy adolescents and adults spend days without thinking sitting in trousers in offices as middle managers, and spend evenings in front of TV screens without thinking about such difficult issues as finding the meaning of human life on earth.
In the best case, 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 was said. As a result, knowledge is never applied in life.
This is a very simple, primitive way - to go with the flow, not to answer for anything, not to take responsibility for what is happening in your life, blaming everyone and everything for all troubles. Sometimes it seems that the whole trouble of mankind is that people simply don’t ask themselves questions. They receive all the answers to the questions from the mass media, and the thoughts that “push” them to the masses, it seems, become their own thoughts about the environment. A person has ready-made answers to questions, invented ideals and justifications for his own insolvency (... the government is to blame, ... the environment is bad, ... there is no time).
But it is worth stopping and asking yourself the question: who am I? what am i doing and why? am i happy what makes me happy? why don't i have what i want? What have I done to be happy? What am I living for? What is the meaning of my life?
Once you manage to answer these questions, train yourself to ask questions and look for answers to them.
You can look through smart books and find great sayings of the sages who have achieved enlightenment through hard work and self-employment. We must pay tribute to such "seekers": smart phrases of people who left their mark on art, culture, science and politics are very useful, because they are short and capacious, full of wisdom and depth, sometimes the philosophy of the whole life of a politician is expressed in a few words, poet or writer.
To summarize the small intermediate results: the Internet helps other sloths in finding the meaning of life, because the problem of finding literature on this topic is completely leveled out; various sites offer the most beautiful words and sayings of such great people as Omar Khayyam, Nietzsche, A. Chekhov, F. M. Dostoevsky, Dale Carnegie. One thing is bad: this is someone else’s life, someone else’s philosophy and someone else’s conclusions ...
The life of people looking for an answer to the question “What is the meaning of human life on earth” in the Bible is not very difficult in terms of moral search.
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 lies in a righteous life on earth and an attempt to earn heaven beyond the line, in a different dimension ... For people who are accustomed to believing that God is the creator of the universe and all living things in life everything is clear: there is good and evil, there are righteous acts and unrighteous ones, mercy is everyone’s personal choice. And if such a person wants to earn a place in paradise, in this life he does only good, does not acquire and does not yield to pride. They don’t need to know and understand who or what actually caused the earth and life on it; they simply believe in God and that death is nothing more than the line between this life and eternal life, and only good man’s eternal existence in paradise, the only way the human soul will keep warm.
Of course, such an opinion has the right to exist, faith, whether Christianity or Islam, is everyone’s private affair and it’s good if it helps people find the answer to the question of what is the meaning of human life on earth.
Any biblical parable teaches a believer to follow the covenants 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 because he is afraid of hell after death, it is not so good. Goodness should be the only people’s choice regardless of whether they believe in some kind of creator or not, they consider eternal being possible or not. The consciousness of a modern person 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 look for our own meaning of life. 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 get some knowledge, you just want to want this, faith in the creator - this permission to yourself does not get better.
If a person has experienced the stage of absolute faith, he begins to search for 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 unambiguously: the meaning of a woman’s life is to marry, give birth to a child and raise him, now everything is much more complicated and at the same time more interesting. Nowadays, a woman’s appointment can not only consist in having a husband and a child, but also in pursuing a career, conducting spiritual quests, engaging in creativity and what the soul lies with. And yet, even now, the meaning of a woman’s life is primarily love. Not necessarily in love for a man and a child, but also in love for the world, nature, work and everyone around.
A person who radiates love himself, who prefers not to receive but to give, is happy by definition, can exist in any conditions and see the good in everything.
Nobody canceled gender self-determination even in the insane conditions of the modern world, and therefore, young men, too, sooner or later are sure to wonder
What is the meaning of life for a man?
This is indeed a very important and difficult question, and even hundreds of years ago there was no definite answer to it.
This can not be said in general and abstractly, each man himself must 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 lies only in this. Is it really? Now, when wars are being fought in many corners of the globe, for a real man, the most important thing is not to fight and destroy, but to restore peace and build.
In a man’s life, something may turn out and not turn out, but this does not mean that a man should stop in search of truth and knowledge of the world, be afraid and not take any steps.
The paradox is that very often we think and fear too much and therefore do not take any steps. In this sense, men are more correct than women: a man who knows that all people will die anyway is unlikely to be afraid of anything and ask permission for his life from unknown mythical creatures. The meaning of a man’s life is in absolute freedom of choice, action and his own path.
When fathers raise their sons in this way, brave and strong men, real personalities grow out of the latter.
It is always interesting for people living now, both young and not very, to find out from famous writers and poets what, in their opinion, is the meaning of human life on earth.
Each of the classics of Russian and foreign literature answers this question in his own way.
So, Leo Tolstoy at some point chose the path of non-resistance to evil, and his views on this are set forth in the epic novel “War and Peace”.
The protagonist of the classic Tolstoy says his hero: the thoughts of the young and conceited Andrei Bolkonsky, who in the heat of battle turned out to be seriously wounded and for the first time in a long time looking into the high eternal sky - this is the author’s reasoning. This Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy understands how small a man is in front of the greatness of nature, how ridiculous all the desires of a tiny man on a vast earth are ridiculous.
No less interesting in this novel are the searches of Pierre Bezukhov, who survived the growth from a weak-willed cuticle and revelers to an exemplary family man and thinker. The spiritual values of adult Pierre are unequivocal: love, family, active citizenship. Such concepts are close and important to modern Russian people, which is why the novel has not lost its relevance today.
But other classics of Russian literature - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov and Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko - in their prose and poems helped many people find the answer to the question
What is the purpose of life if you are alone?
Many heroes of these poets and writers are very lonely, Eugene Onegin, Grigory Pecherin and Mtsyri in general gave rise to a whole generation of desperate lonely fatalists, sad, lost and abandoned, at the same time suffering from loneliness and not getting along well with other people.
The heroes of Korolenko have a different story: they suffer from loneliness, because they are unlike the others, and they seek the meaning of life not in denying life itself, but in creative work, science, in attempts to find soul mates and find human warmth.
Young and adult people can learn life from the works of great classics, and at different ages the same works are perceived differently, so it’s useful to re-read “Eugene Onegin”, “Hero of our time”, “Blind musician” in different periods of life.
It is also useful sometimes to read Latin sayings. Firstly, everything written in Latin sounds very beautiful. Secondly, in every Latin phrase there is a very deep philosophical meaning that helps a person understand what the meaning of life is.
Presentation, miniature, composition are nothing more than forms, and the search for the meaning of life does not begin and end within the school walls.
What is the conclusion from all this? Of course, everyone independently answers the question, what is the meaning of life.
And if in a nutshell to describe the whole article,THE MEANING OF LIFE IN ORDER TO LOVE, BE HAPPY AND SOW LOVE!
