we are expected to live a life with meaning. But how can we lives a life with meaning? People are bumbared with answers all there lives usally conerdicting ideas that ofthen make it much harder to to find a way to live a meaningfull life because people are getting so many mixed answers. So what do poepel get out of this mess of answers and exsamples . In our class we asked random people qustions that we chosse that might show there view on a meaningfull life. The qustion I choose is what is beuty because this can refelct that what they think I buetyfull can show its's singafiance to them and it will show what kind of a person they are also there vaules in life.
So what is to live a meaning full life to me. Well I think the best way to do that is to look at what I like. I believe to show what I hold dear is what usaly what I find meaningfull things that I think made the world in to a better place...OR at least showed ways to make the world in to a better place. But over all I thing that the ideas , people, music or even books. I like them because of there significance or either I find some thing that I find sigfigante and hope it is sinigaganet.“significance” to me is able to give me some thing to aspire too. Like the Jedi and batman's control I try to achieve that in my self, not that I hope once I do achieve that control(if I ever) that I would be a jedi or batman I just hope that i'll be able to become a better person to the people around me. and also the accept I showed was I want a lot of stuff to change but I know I cant do it by my self but I hope I could achive that aspect of control.
I can see how the I view the world and what my meaning is but im only 1 out of 6 billltih of the population so there are a lot of ideas being given by all these people or they choose to make other people ideas of a meaning full life there own. I think some are bad for people while others can be more helpful then others. For exsample the song “ a good life” by knya west . This song is what I thihk many peopole want to live like this song is saying the only way to live a good life is money, being rich, have loads of crap. Never any thing that will make one happy for a long time it is all just things that will last for a short time then you spit it out and get another one every thing is short little “fun” things. Just it is a bad way at looking at life and the world we live in. also I mean what is this sending for people to be happy drink get cars and like big asses that's what the song say it is to have a good life. Be rich be a pig for example “and watch the money pile up, the good life” he says this while stacks of money come down. Another image in the video was when he said shit the best things in life are free at the same time he is sprinkling diamonds so that is meant to be a gag like sarcastic comment the over laying is that you need to have money and spend it one real crap. So how can you have money if you spend it always on real crap that a contradiction.the other themes are ME and I I thought I was bad as I said before. Just feeding in the worst part of us. So people learn to think for them selfves and make nothing good for people that are not them selves.
But what about real people not every one think like kanye and most people have there own view on the meaning of life.
While interviewing the people around me, the common answers were those that would justify their present situation. The questions I asked were "what is meaning?", "how meaningful is your life?", and "what is beauty?". I got various answers but most were characterized by a lack of thought. But over all, I thought it was interesting and helped the person realize aspects about their life that they overlook.
Then I asked people about their idea of beauty. Asking this question would help me find what they valued. I was inspired to ask this when I heard on the radio how quickly evolution can happen. Women in Romania could grow full mustaches because the men there found women with mustaches to be more beautiful for what ever reason. So I thought about every one else. Would there be a pattern like there is in Romania? Would it be a favorite color, or a flower, or something? So I asked my cousin first and he said “Ian, what is beautiful is very simple.. a fat ass.” I was very disappointed with this and thought it was a not a thought out answer so I asked again... I posed the question in a different way: “Well, why is a fat ass beautiful and what if a rhino or a chicken had a fat ass would that make it beautiful?” He said it is always “in the eye of the beholder and yes, those animals would be beautiful. Ian, how can one not like a fat ass?”
What struck me was that he said everyone has their own taste but it is weird for me to think differently than him. Basically, he has a strict idea of beauty and that every one else is wrong but he will tolerate them. This connects to my idea that most people will make what they like more beautiful or meaningful because they like it and want to be right.
Another person I asked was my little brother and he said that beauty was our city. So, I asked further clarifying questions like "what make makes it nice?". Through talking to him, he was able to narrow the most beautiful traits about the city to the "peace" and "security". He feels the city has peace between people. So I asked “how about just 'peace' in general? Is that beautiful to you?” he said “yeah and I like dads neighborhood.”
Our dad lives in the north Bronx where the Botanical gardens are. He added that “nothing is dramatically changing and that every thing is the same. I think.” So I thought my brother likes his environment to be like really smooth glass and any imperfections on the glass would stand out and he wouldn’t like it. I was able to understand that Eric finds beauty in the places he can consider home.
The last person I asked this question to was a man in union square who I know little about. He was smoking a a cigarette on the bench when I asked him for his definition of "beauty". I was surprised since he was so short with me. So I asked him what aesthetically pleases him. He looked puzzled and seemed to be in deep thought. Then I took the pressure off him by saying "how about just knowing it when you see it?" and he nodded, relieved and said "yeah that's cool." So then I asked him how meaningful he felt his life was, and he replied with a "7", one of the lowest numbers I had heard someone rate. I decided I wouldn't keep him any longer, so I shook his hand. His handshake was pretty weak. I could tell he did not think very highly of himself and also he was unsure of where he stood in all aspects of his life. His idea of beauty was not firmly established because he is unsure about his own meaning. He is an example of how meaningfulness and beauty are linked at their cores.
I have found that beauty is highly subjective but is also derived from individual values, sense of worth, and a person's relative meaning. That is why there is no accurate, uniform definition for beauty, since it is only validated by an individual perspective.
After asking all these people what is infuliceing them to think that way so we studyed the copertae messgaes that are being literally trown at them and us to make things worse there are many different sorces sayign many different things oftehn conredicting each other. There are magaizens and popualr songs
No comments:
Post a Comment