During class we ask ourselves how we think our lives are meaningful, by going out side through the street of New York City I was able to ask different people about what is their thoughts on the topic. My first question was to ask them “How much do they think their life is meaningful on a scale of 1-10 (10 as the highest)” through out the 5 people I interviewed most of the people think that their lives are really meaningful right now around a 6-10. The Guy in Green said “good question” “I like to think I have taken from the world then taking from it”, Guy in Grey say “8 because it is me!” Girl in Blue would agree because she said a “7, because it is 90% of my life and the rest is like 10% that just feel down the drain.” Lady in Purple say differ because she think her life gotten more meaningless since she has much more to accomplish because in her childhood she felt more free. So even though these people think a little differently then each other they still think their lives are mostly meaningful.
Most people think that helping the community says that it is very meaningful, Guy in grey say that he like to making lives of others better and helping them, Guy in green would agree because he gets it from volunteering and being a good husband, Girl in blue say that “because it kinda like your help people in away, because when you need them they help you too and if they need you you’ll help them” and Guy in green has a similar statement “give on to others as it gives on to you” they all say that helping others will be rewarding and make their lives more meaningful. Lady in Pink says she just “wanted to give back to the world” and helping the community was a way to do it.
The Lady in purple has a lot of different thoughts then others on how her is life meaningful because she says when she immigrated to America she saw a new world for her and to see a new place to learn from, and that meeting her husband was meaningful, but she would agree with Guy in grey and Guy in green that sitting their in front of a box doing nothing is meaningless in their lives Lady in purple says “doing nothing, staring at the TV and looking back and forth, and being a couch potato.” Even though they all have different thoughts on how their lives are meaningful they have the same though of how their lives are meaningless.
The Guy in Grey and the Girl in blue both say that they wanna fix their lives and take away the drama and make it better to make their lives more meaningful and fix the percentage that made it less meaningful. Lady in purple disagrees because she would just keep building on to her life like getting a better education.
Lady in Purple says that wisdom is “theoretically correct” but Girl in blue says that wisdom is smart, they both have different ideas and both can be right in their own views because of what they see in the world and how they see it.
In class we wonder how family is so important to us and why is it always meaningful, we tried to get a little insight of how each of us say the world differently. As a conclusion we think it because from the members and adapted to their life style, it’s because we are born into their family and they took us in and are our first memories. Girl in Blue say that “they are always with you through thick and thin.” Girl in White also says family since she spends time with people who she “likes and loves.” At the end we go the insight of how children make families more meaningful since they give experience and love to the people and form new families to carry on tradition and love. Even though some births are by accident most parents keep their child because children make lives more meaningful.
Asking the question of how people view others lives as meaningful was hard for some people. For example, Lady in purple says that “it is hard to look at others lives more meaningful because I am not them so I think my life is more meaningful.” And lady in black would say agree on the same thing since “you can’t judge people on the outside and they might see their lives differently then others and can be more or less meaningful.”
By comparing peoples statements to each other I can see that many people view their lives the same way as meaningful, but not totally since they could do more in their lives, many people would say that family and friends and helping the community is meaningful to them but others might disagree that helping themselves and getting a better education might be best for them. Well everyone has their own insights and though of what to say. See how people would have never though how differently they would view theirs lives when you would ask them how meaningful is their lives because they have to stop and think. they all give similar and different answers to how their lives are meaningful and how to view others in that manner, that each people has different insight on what they think of the world and how they think of themselves. Comparing each other to see patterns in their writing shows how I am going to compare them to my own answers and how I would see the world differently and how there are answers I would never have though about to how my life is meaningful and how it can be meaningful to give back to others.
