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What is a well lived life?
Even as a small child this question has plagued the back of my mind. It seems a simple question but I'm aware from life experiences that ideas and attitudes mature and even change over time. Therefore a ten year old's reply may be very different from a 100 year old's. From wealthy to poor, highly educated to third grade drop outs it doesn't matter to me. I simply want others opinions.
Please take your time and reflect, it could be a legacy or how well you treat perfect strangers, how many peoples lives you changed. Maybe it's your moral values or religion, the power you acquired and or how you used it, a good father/mother/child, teacher, conqueror, pacifist etc...
There are no wrong replies.
Thank you in advance
Pat
Closing Statement from Pat Henderson
As I said in the beginning there are no wrong answers. My only disappointment was Fritzie' reply. while not wrong she did use someone else to determine what she did reply. I was only interested a personal reply from you own belief system. this is not meant to pick on Fritzie and I hope you don't take it that way. There is no real conclusion from this talk because it's all a personal view. Thank you all for your participation.
Scot Wilcox 10+
Kate Blake 50+
Maaher Sayeed 10+
We live but once in this form and time, and what good it would be if we haven’t left a positive mark behind that others can benefit from?
Olivia Ross
Peter Law 30+
:-)
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Fritzie Reisner 100+
There is a difference in whether you feel your life is well lived and whether others would. I assume you are asking about the first. Along those lines, Seth Godin, another TED speaker and one of the most widely read individual bloggers in the world, wrote today:
"Everyone lives with self mythology.The more important a memory is to the story we tell ourselves about ourselves, the more often we rehearse the memory. And the more often we relive those memories, the less likely it is that they are true.
Despite our shared conception that we are rational actors making intelligent decisions based on an accurate view of the world and ourselves, precisely the opposite is true."
The way we see ourselves, then, may not only not be how others see us but may tend to have a large component of self-delusion. Feeling you are leading a fulfilled life is likely more connected to how you see yourself than how you actually are.
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For another wonderful answer, I think, see Mike Trainer's recent response to Derek Young's featured conversation about empathetic/sympathetic people.
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Gail . 50+
I was a professional memoirist. Everyone has a great story. Few dare to take life to the next level, where they push themselves to be the best person they can be.
I'm not a Christian, but as so many are, I will use a Christian parable to explain. It's the parable of the talents.
We are each born with talents. Some hide their talents in the ground (their fears). They gain nothing but surface satisfaction - if that. Their lives remain fear-based. They never see beyond the surface. They are called "shallow". Others will risk little, so they receive little. They too have wasted so many opportunities as to negate most of the value of their lives. Others dare challenge life and the untested assumptions that are part of conventional wisdom. These excel in the most inspiring ways. Their stories are the BEST stories, and there is much of value that the reader can learn from them.
greg dahlen 20+
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
This is a life worth living.
greg dahlen 20+
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
Just to encourage the audience and humanity at large that dreams are good; but the proof of desire is pursuit hence one would need to take certain wise steps to live the dream.
Chetan Somani
W. Ying 10+
(1) Successfully keep our DNA alive.
(2) Be HAPPY VALIDLY without much INVALID HAPPINESS.
Salim Solaiman 50+
Gordon Barker 10+
Mandeep Caur
For others- when they feel and acknowledge ...it is! And others generally acknowledge when they see you contributing to your best in every role you play in your life, personal and professional.