Humanities

"Does my life mean anything?". For pretty much all people it is the most complicated yes/no question we can be asked, and many of us simply do not have the time to ask it of ourselves. In the modern world everything moves so quickly that, in the immortal words of Ferris Bueller "... if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it". When I have to evaluate whether or not my life has value, I immediately think of my close friendships. That is my answer to this question because if I were to find that my friendships were more fragile than I realized, it could mean that I am not making the right decisions where it counts. If I cannot make the right decisions now when it matters, it is likely my life will not have any real impact.  The reason it is so difficult to answer this question is because to do so we have to be able to accurately evaluate ourselves. This is not something us humans are good at. To give an example why, when I write an essay I...