Life's goal is becoming to compete but with whom we dont know and why? I cant understand how much one has ---------------------in this world and what contentment comes just by nodding --------- rather may be for earning few bucks
The personal meaning in life is the important thing to keep one going in a positive direction. I give you an example:
S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist But do personal meaning in life is more important thing to keep one going in a positive direction ? OR rather than being loved by your near & dear ones is more important to be in positive direction.
Hi Anis Mirza
This question that you posed here is very important. I wanted to check the same in my research (Ph.D) but due to the complex procedures and obtaining objective results and especially gathering of sampling difficulties, i changed my topic slightly. Your question is related to existential vacuum.
Now coming to your question i completely agree with Beatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist.
But here are my personal observations.
1. Whether the individual ascribes personal meaning to these values - creative, experiential, and attitudinal values depends upon ones' longing or deprived needs at any of the developmental stages. But how far the individual wants to carry on the needs into the next stage of life is reflected in maladaptive personality traits manifestation .
2. An individual's perception of Satisfaction with life is important. As the satisfaction is never observed by today's human beings, they are going beyond what they can do. So the need of mindfulness programs escalated.
3. In your question you mentioned "are we going too fast". But my question is -"are we running away from relationships?" Relationships here include both family and social (friends and work). To live a healthy life, one should have good intrapersonal( to have awareness of one's skills and to come up with loving oneself adequately) and interpersonal (family and social) relationships. But these days one is not able to look for one's needs properly and many in my country are able to help others due to financial difficulties. In addition to financial , ego clashes between the family members, colleagues spoil the intepersonal health of today's individuals, collecting data of which might show the world what is happening in this world. But how will one collect this subjective data and provide it in an objective way?
How can one convince people of their imbalance in their psyche and help them to live a healthy life?
Is it possible to make one live a satisfactory life when the needs that these individuals have are met as per their standards?
You might have observed many in your life that people are not enjoying lives. They just carry on with mundane tasks and the day gets finished. So where would come time to focus on themselves. Here comes the role of religious institutions attending which the individual feels momentary satisfaction as they were reminded of their connection with GOD.
But all of the above descriptions are my personal observations and need to be researched for empirical evaluation. I have seen many such situations where i felt sad that people are not living with "authentic happiness" in my country but could not do anything as each individual has right to expect something in his or her life and strive for it.
Whoever reads this lenghty matter, i salute their patience. Thank you for reading this.
Regards
Dr. Deepthi Balla
Hi Deepthi Balla
truly great observation.I liked your change in my question from "are we moving too fast" to "Are we running away from relationships?" You exactly explained the right observation that in this very short life we think we are progressing and moving fast but actual fact is that we are moving away from relationships. Our minds are like completely filled and blocked and even dont understand that people used to be free, happier and healthy--------------now no time for near ones and lot of time for unknown---
Your personally discovered meaning in your own life is the most important. When you know why you live you can share something good with somebody else.
S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist personally discovered meaning in your own life can be more important. Yeah When one knows why he is living can share something good but to understand yourself is very difficult because everyone's perception about his or her own self could be wrong but according to his own thinking of oneself it could be correct. Do different people dont have different perceptions about the same person. I think with advancing technology we are becoming techno organism and lap and mob organism rather tah being a good human being
It is up to you what you want to become regardless of techno and so on. Life is hard, yes. Still, every man has his personal positive meaning to complete before he dies.
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