Have you ever think of your role in life? I bet, approximately
every people living or lived asked the question “What
is the meaning of life?” or “Why do I exist? I will be a
dead body at the end” to themselves and probably they
concluded with how can I find the answer even the
great philosophers could not have the exact answer. But
while they were reaching the conclusion they skipped
one step which was the main point in the philosophy:
“The questions are more important than the answers.”
A human is human because it can query in other words
it wonders and it asks the question “How?” When we
come back to our main question with considering this
perspective, humans learn and attain new knowledge
by inquiring and if people have a certain answer to that
question then, they would not bother themselves to
ask more and more. In that sense, the answers can kill
the doubt which is the main part that makes human a
human. Perhaps this question does not have a certain
answer because the meaning of life is different for each
one of the living creatures because the purpose of the
whole story on Earth perhaps on any other galaxy is the
attributing a meaning to life…
If the main purpose is to attribute a meaning to life, then
why do we sometimes get the feeling nothing really
matters? Is it because we know what will happen at the
end? Is it because of being afraid of being attached to
any other thing and losing it forever? I personally think
that we sometimes get that feeling because we are out
of our comfort zone and we do not want to face with
challenges around us because we always think about
the worst consequences of a certain event we do not
want to go on. This catastrophic thinking- due to anxiety
we have because of constructing our life in the basis
of our struggle to earn a living, our house or our love
affairs- causes human finding the easiest way to quit up
by just devaluing the life. When a person thinks nothing
really matters, because we all be dead bodies, it sounds
like the person is treating life as a substance that can
have different values like the unknown in math without
thinking that life is not something I can grade however
life is something which I need to be graded on according
to how did I shape?
Most probably you are reading this essay from your
computer or from a handout printed on paper in a place
which is quite from far away from the place where I
wrote it. Now I kindly want you to imagine that what
THE CLAPPER 2018 - 2019
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THE CHOSEN TOPIC IS: 2.) “PERHAPS YOU HAVE HAD THE
THOUGHT THAT NOTHING REALLY MATTERS, BECAUSE IN
TWO HUNDRED YEARS WE´LL ALL BE DEAD.”