The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living?


What is the purpose of living life if you don’t know why you’re living it? The only true way to be happy in life is to question yourself. Question the way you think, what you believe in, who you are. Without doing this you walk through life blindly and you are swayed by influences in your society. Most of not all of the most influential people in history have had moments were they have questioned themselves about their lives, their actions. Malcolm X did this when he left the Nation of Islam, Muhammad Ali did this when he refused to fight in the Vietnam War, and the list goes on. To have true fulfillment in your life you must look within yourself for the answers, no one else. To give an example, let’s say there was a baker who baked pies. His whole life he’s been baking pies, as he took after his father and when he was old enough he inherited the family bakery. He made pies everyday, the best pie flipper in his city. Then one day he asked himself, “Why do I only bake pies?” Pies were all he’s ever known. That same day he wanted to try something different and started to bake cakes. He found he loved this and continued baking cakes the rest of his life. He expanded his reality simply by asking himself a question.