Oh life. What you do to me.
So I recently watched the movie, Life is Beautiful. It got me thinking that no matter how bad life gets, we have to make the best of it. Our imagination and what we perceive life to be, is how we will make it through. The man in the movie makes the best of a being in a concentration camp! How crazy is that. He gets his son and wife through it. It just amazes me, how in the worst of the worst, how someone can bring so much joy to the situation and use imagination to make it through the hard times. It makes me think of how we can make such small things into such a big deal and make the worst out of the most simple things. We need to move past those things and just bring joy to our lives.
We question our existence and ask why we are even here. We think about what life really means and how we want to go on living it. It is hard to suggest that life isn't really happening like we think it is; that this is just an illusion or a dream or whatever. Whatever it is, it is good. We need to make the most of it. We need to see things and appreciate them. There is so much to figure out! Yes, it's only life. But it's all we got.....or is it?
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i really like this blog. although we question sometimes questioning distracts us from living. i just agree with how this was written
That movie is brilliant! I am glad you watched it. I remember when Roberto Benigni got an academy award for that movie - he jumped up and down on his seat completely overjoyed.
Now, while I think you're right about living, making the best of things, even in hard times, I'm not sure about living without thinking or questioning, if that's what you mean. Much of why the Holocaust happened was because questioning and thinking wasn't being done. My hope is that philosophy allows you to live to the fullest while and because of thinking, questioning deeply about life. Socrates said 'the unexamined life is one not worth living'. This is connected, in many ways I think, with the movie. It's because the main character knew himself and the joy that is life that he was able to draw power from that to get through the hard times and, in the end, save his boy though he himself was killed. From then on, his son, through a tragedy - his father's sacrifice - would know what a gift and joy it is to live.
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