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Live
3. The Journey
- What kind of journey will your life be?
- What kind of journey do you want?
- What are you prepared to do?
- Will you look for cheap thrills?
Or
- Will you do the work to make your journey worthwhile?
There are many ways to get meaning and purpose to energize your life. Just like a strong building needs good foundations, you can build your own foundations that support and guide you throughout your life. Without this strong foundation, the chances are that things could derail you easily. It means that you have to work on how to understand yourself, the world around you, making choices and seeing opportunities .
The journey of life is like traversing a mountain range. Sometimes it is smooth going and other times you wonder how you are going to make it when you are facing one of those ‘peaks’. Remember, you have the necessary capacity to overcome the challenges that life may through at you. It might mean that you have to be patient or determined or find a new way.
As you grow and mature, you might want to search more deeply into things like the meaning of life, truth, existence, knowledge, thinking and so on.
An area of knowledge that could put you on a self-discovery journey is Philosophy. It comes from a Greek word philosophia, which means ‘the love of wisdom’. Philosophy is a wide body of knowledge and has different schools (or styles). In simple terms, it’s a study of knowledge, meaning of words and ideas and what is meant to be human and to exist. It’s thinking about thinking.
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