VALUE OF LIFE IS RELATIVE

When we examine a person’s life we attempt to see whether or not that person lived a good, meaningful life. As a society, more often than not we determine the value of a life by a person’s major accomplishments. Everyone carries a different opinion about what acts or achievements warrant a persons life to be truly meaningful but one cannot argue that a person's existence is never wasted if they accomplish what they truly want with there life. In fact the idea of doing what you truly love with the time that is given to you is quiet noble and thus worthy of being deemed a life with value. To make my life meaningful there are several acts that I would need to accomplish before my death. They are fighting for a noble cause, passing on ideas and values to my children, finding a state of peace before I die, finding true friendship, and do something to help the greater good. I feel that these ideas or events substantiate a life of meaning and significance. For me nothing speaks louder of a life well lived than doing something great. When I look around I see so many things wrong with the world today whether it is terrorism or famine, genocide or global warming there are so many things to fix. There are so many opportunities to make a difference in the world. Obviously no one person can go out and solve the problems of our day single handedly, however one can help. Imagine before you die looking back at all you lived through and all you have done and being able to say I helped but an end to global warming, I did my part. I have seen this satisfaction of a job well done and a life well lived with many war veterans from World War II. No matter where they were or what they did the people who took part in that great crusade can say that they helped put an end to one of the most tyrannical powers in all of human history and that they saved the world from certain darkness. I would want to be able say that I did something of worldly importance, to know that I stood and fought something that strongly opposed. This idea for me brings together several ideals that I would hope to live my life by courage, honor, and integrity. By doing such a thing as fighting these ideals would be immortalized along with my actions. Another thing I would want to do before I died would be to take all the things I learned throughout my life and pass it on to the next generation. Everything that I believe is good and moral and just I would pass on to my children for them to pass down to there children and so forth. By doing this I would accomplish two things, first it would allow a part of my being to be preserved vicariously through the ideas and principles passed down generation to generation. It would also allow me to leave a positive mark on lives of youth before I died. There can be no greater achievement in life than passing on the values of honor and loyalty and love to young people who are unsure of there own paths. To guide them and help them succeed bye revealing your own past mistakes so that the next generations are saved those hardships. When you think about this value in terms of humanity you would wish that everyone would pass down to the next generation. Imagine that if we simply guided our youths around were we stumbled as youths how much easier there lives would be. By passing on our morals and advice to the next generation we complete our lives and our purpose and truly add meaning to our existence. Something that I believe everyone wants to achieve before they die is a sense of peace and tranquility at some point. Up to this point in my life I have never experienced a moment that I can remember where I wasn’t thinking about what I have to do next. Even after I overcome a huge obstacle in my life there always seems to be something looming in the horizon. Before I die I want to know what it feels like to not have to worry, I want to make peace with my self. The only time I have seen people at total peace is normally once they are very old and retired, there families are all grown up and they no longer have any responsibilities. I love the clamor of life, I love jumping from one task to another and the sense of accomplishment I feel after finishing something big. However to reach that sense of nirvana or serenity with all that is around you is truly an accomplishment that only a few well dissevered people are allotted. I think that if we all tried to slow ourselves down as a society and learned from these people we would find ourselves to be truly happy. Humanity has always been rambunctious and violent. As people we don’t see the flaws in this until we are very old and experience the peace that true freedom gives us. The people that experiences these freedoms are only able to because they have made peace within themselves with the fact that there responsibility’s are over and they may finally rest. These people have accomplished all they have set out to do thus leaving them with no regrets and peace. I hope that someday I may be able to finally settle and let go of life’s tension for this is truly a mark of and meaningfully life. True friendship is hard to find in this world. With everyone so busy and only interested in making money people are less likely to form really meaningful friendships. By meaningful friendships I don’t mean people that you hangout with and joke with, I am speaking of companionship. The idea of knowing that someone always has your back and is willing to be there with you until the end is one that would give anyone a smile. We all seek this sort of companionship but rarely find it. Before I die I would want to know that I had a friend a true friend and that I experience what it was like to have a person always on your side. When you have this sort of friendship you know your have lived a good life one that really means something because you were able to trust in another person. As a society we almost fear this kind of trust. We feel like if we trust someone else they will eventually let us down we are very paranoid of being deceived. That is why these kind of true friendships are rare. That’s why these sorts of friendships are common amongst people who have to trust each other. I know that on my football team we all share a certain bond. When your out there playing everyone needs to rely and trust one another to do there job so that we can succeed as a group. I personally value this sort of trust and look for it in my friendships. This bond of trust that I experienced in football is probably why I feel that this kind of friendship is such a valuable thing in life. Finally before I die I would want to do something for someone else. Whenever I help someone, whether it be helping an old man up the stairs or carrying groceries for somebody I get a sense of pride and purpose that really makes me feel good. One could imagine that helping others gives true meaning to an individual’s life. If someone spent there whole life helping the poor we would say that that person lived a good important existence. My ambition in life is do something for someone that really makes a difference in there life; to use my abilities and my strengths to help someone out less fortunate than me. Society really supports this path; humanity is always looking out for itself and one another. There is nothing more honorable than helping the weak or the down trodden and this view is really great because it enables people to do something with the skills they have to help the unfortunate. And this is truly righteous and definitely worth trying to accomplish. All of my life goals are things that I believe would make my life meaningful. However as long as we strive to make something of ourselves we will always have meaning in our lives. Everyone has things that they want to do in life things that they aspire to be or do and as long as we attempt to do these things we have created value in our lives.