A LIFE WORTH LIVING

A LIFE WORTH LIVING

So what is a life worth living? Is living a luxurious life with many servants and going through life by partying all night is a life worth living? Or living a peaceful life of a hermit is a life worth living? Is living like Mother Teresa is a life worth living? Or living like Adolf Hitler is a life worth living? I have put forward these questions because I myself have struggled to find the answers of these questions and frankly speaking I have not found the answer to these questions. However, I believe that I have found a way to lead a normal life with reasonable amount of peace and happiness. In short I believe that I have figured out what is a good life and how to obtain it.

I believe that the fragile concept of a good life hinges upon four things. I have used the word “fragile” because good life is fragile and can get shattered at any point of time. Then we have to remake it; if we can.

So coming back to the four pillars of good life; they are Health, Family, Money, and Respect and in this particular order only.

So first comes Health. All the money, power and all the other joys in the world are useless if you do not have your health. You cannot really enjoy anything if you are in constant pain or suffering due to health complications. I believe that there can be no disagreement on this matter and everybody would agree that health is the foremost and most important thing to lead a good life.

Second comes Family. I don’t know about anybody else but my family and friends are very important to me and I cannot even imagine my life without them. They are the people who love me and care for me and help me out when life is cruel to me. I believe that similar is the case with many people and most of the people would agree that family is important for a good life. There can be some who disagree on this point but these people will probably be in great minority.

Third is money. Now Respect can easily change place with money. It is just an individual point of view. For me money and career are important because they help us out living our day to day life in the desired fashion. Fulfilling daily needs such as food, shelter, clothing, medicine etc all require money and a steep lack of it can cause all sorts of unnecessary problems. I don’t have to elaborate those problems because anybody with common sense can figure out the problems caused by lack of money. Now excessive money brings luxury with it and I see no problem with luxury if you can afford it. So a reasonable amount of money is essential to lead a good life and only a fool will disagree with it.

Now money may not apply to the people who live in the Jungle but that is a totally different thing and I am talking about the good life in the real world.

The fourth and the last thing, but not the least, to live a good life is Respect. How will you feel if everybody you met shoo away you like a dog? Or all the local shopkeepers of your area decide not to sell you anything because they think that you are a piece of crap? Or all of your friends decide to break their friendship with you because they no longer respect you and think that you are a back stabbing son of a bitch. Nobody ever treats you like that because they respect you. Respect is absolutely necessary to lead a good life. Most of the people take respect for granted and don’t realize its’ importance unless it is lost. Therefore I believe that living a life with respect and honor is necessary. Now there are people in this world who live like scum without any respect and honor and some of them even do quiet good for themselves by their disrespectful ways but I don’t believe that a man should live his life in this way. I believe that most would agree with me.

Now as you can see I have not included God and Religion on the things for a good life because there are many atheists who live a good life for example Brad Pitt and Hugh Hefner are just of two of the numerous atheists who can be considered successful by the worldly standards. Although, I believe in a higher power, I don’t believe in any particular religion.

So the ingredients of a good life are Health, Family, Money and Respect. A life in which you can get a reasonable amount of all four is a good life worth living and if there is a lack of any of it. Then you must strive to get it to make your life good; if you can.

Surely there can be circumstances in life when things are beyond your control such as you might get a deadly disease as cancer or suffer terrible accident or lose a dear family member or lose your job or business or lose your possessions in a natural disaster etc. Then you have to keep your head cool, workout things, and attempt to rebuild the good life to the best of your abilities. And even if you can’t then you have to live whatever life you get fighting your circumstances. Because if you fight there will be a chance that things will improve, but if you don’t fight then they may never improve.

So a life worth living is either good life in which you have your health, family, money and respect or a life spent fighting for the good life.

If you know of any other way of living a good life then please let me know.

This is all I have to say for now. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Sincerely Yours

Imran Mehboob

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