Looking through my
classmate’s blogs, I found a post about the meaning of “Full Life” by Charlie
DeLorenzo. In this blog post Charlie responds to another blog post about living
a “full life” and what that person thought living a full life would mean. Charlie
also explained his point of view on living a full life and how one could do
that. He says that a full life can be attained through experience and
perspective. A full life is one that “individual can be at peace with the whole
of what has been experienced in their life.” Also to truly understand
happiness, one must first have felt sadness. Charlie goes on to talk about how
to feel one emotion you must know its opposite, to live a “full life” you must
experience all of the good and bad things in life. It all depends on how you
play the game with the cards you are dealt.
While
throughout Charlie’s post, he’s brought up many good points that I do agree
with, he says a lot of things I don’t really agree on. I believe that to live a
full life, you must have experiences throughout your life. To know what living
really is, you need to experience life and do all that you can do. Life isn’t
about how much money you make, how many places you go, how many people say they
are your friends. Life is about being happy with who you are and what you have
done. People will always tell you how successful they are because they want to
try and prove that they are living a perfect life. However, these people have
never truly lived, slaving away every day for a number in a bank account that
doesn’t mean anything when they are saying goodbye at the end of their life. No
one has ever said that they loved that person and that someone was a great
person just because they had a lot of money. Also the old saying that “money
can buy happiness because money buys jet skis and you’ve never seen a sad
person on a jet ski” is wrong. No one is going to think that their life was
fulfilling because they owned a jet ski.
Some
people think that their life would be perfectly fulfilling traveling around the
world and seeing every sight that the world has to offer. The wonders of the
world fill their cameras and they could say that they hit all of the most
beautiful places anyone has ever dreamed of. Bragging to all of their friends
and showing hundreds of pictures to everyone would give them a sense of pride.
While yes those experiences would last a lifetime and out travelers would say
they wouldn’t trade it for the world, things might not be as perfect as they
seem. No not even a life like this would guarantee you a perfect life.
Finally
we have the people that live their life by the light of the lord. While they
will constantly tell you how the lord is your savior and the only way to
heaven. Heaven is the only way to be proven as a good person while you were on
earth. You must go to church and you must repent for your sins to be a model
citizen and live a fulfilling life. However, in the churches eyes, you can’t be
a good person or live the life you should unless you give yourself to god and
become a member of said churches. However, none of this makes you live a
fulfilling life, and forcing someone else to live this way does not make them
live a fulfilling life.
The
only way to truly live a fulfilling life is to be happy with every decision you
make. You must be willing to look back at your life in the end and not tell
yourself that you have had a fulfilling life, but think that with everything
you’ve done and everyone you’ve loved, you wouldn’t have changed a thing. Being
truly happy with what you have done and who you have become, that is what makes
a life fulfilling.
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