Re: the worth of an unexamined life.

On Jul 30, 8:01 am, Enrique <EdelaGarza...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The [An] unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates.

These words are commonly attributed to Socrates. Of his being the
source is one thing we cannot truly be sure of though.
How much of an examination must be made in order to give this life
being led, or the one to be led worth?
Shall I go through every door? Reach into every hole?
Walk into every tunnel I find?

Where does the examination of life end?
Or the greater question being, must it be a purposeful examination? Do
I need to realize that I am doing so, that I am currently in a
journey, currently examining said journey to give it worth.

Once I definitely would have said yes. Responding with we must first
realize the journey to give it worth. On looking back, the first cause
of something is not always known, not always grasped,

Picture this example, you pick up a stone that you find on the ground.
For no other reason than it was the first one you found on the first
day of that college experience. This rock is carried around in your
pocket for the next three years, never knowing what it is, kind of
halfway forgetting that you had it, or why you picked it up in the
first place. Fourth year comes to fruition and you take geology as an
elective, this rock gains new meaning. Now after geology you can point
out the specific crystals on it, the sedimentary structures on it can
be named, is it igneous intrusive or extrusive, is it a metamorphic
rock? Those three years carrying that extra weight mean
something now. At first moment that part of life was not examined, but
that
did not take decrease its meaning, its worth.

In order to examine life, to make it worth living, we must first live.
Look past everything before us, sometimes walking past the details,
disregarding the picture. If we stop in the midst of experiences to
examine, we may just end up stuck within that bundle theory trying to
make sense of everything.

 Any by the way, yes Socrates and Plato are much overrated.

- Enrique

This is a journey we are on and self awareness is hopefully a part of
it. At times it may seem pointless but it can also be fascination.
Seeing how life works and what it is made up of including what we each
bring to it. Anyway, if we are to be more than we've been this is a
journey we need. Sometimes I'm hopeful, other times have been dark,
but if we're to outgrow history we should see well who we are and have
been first.
.

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