Would you dare discuss your opinions/answers about the values of living? Please share your thoughts on the following questions:
What are you living for? What do you expect your future to be?
What do you think people should live their lives?
Have you seen bad people? Why they are bad? How do you think they should change?
Are you a bad person? Do you plan to improve to get better?
I don't know if I have a set answer to your first question, but it is a valid question. I am a writer, a failed academic who believes in teaching, and a husband, son and brother. I name these because in a sense, I guess I can only answer the question by listing what I do. I live for what I do.
ReplyDeleteThis is a change. Like the stages of life laid out in Hinduism, I guess I used to be in a scholarly mode, by which I mean that my concerns were less grounded, perhaps even spiritual in nature. I lived for thought and for ideas. I guess yuo could argue I was also living for what I did (i.e., thinking) but somehow that seems different from how I answer your question now, if not by type than by degree. Now, the things I do seem more stuck in a way to the worldly, or perhaps I am more in the present depending on how you want to look at it. I'm not sure which is better. Maybe, returning to the Hindu notion, both ways of being are fine depending on the phase you find yourself in.
I'd be curious to see how others answer the question.