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Personal Essay: The Meaning Of Life

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As someone who has been living for only 17 years, there have been instances where I have questioned myself and society as a whole. I have tried to seek answers and tried to find myself through my conscience and my life. The meaning of life has been a mystery to me, and I want to explore through experimentation and creation. I seek the mysteries of the world, especially how human nature connects with a formulated society. I want to figure out why humanity is how it is and what I can do to change the darker side of it; I wonder about questions AND answers and how they affect who I am today as well and who I will be in the future. I am a human. A human who has many questions about why things happen in the world and what affects what. I wonder about my life span and what I will do in the future with that certain amount of time. I wonder about my death and what I am going to do so I can end happily. I wonder about my regrets and how I am going to heal the guilt. I wonder about subjects like why most of our thoughts are about trivial things which seem so small but mean a lot to us: like physical appearance or money. And I also wonder about what I am going to do to change society’s ways. As a society, there are rules. The …show more content…

There are an infinite amount of puzzle pieces that the audience is trying to originate. In the end, there is supposed to be a big picture and the satisfaction of completion; but my puzzle pieces are not supposed to be put together, and if it were to be together, it would just be a blank picture. There are millions of pieces that somehow connect to each other, but the only reason that they are not connecting is because there is a chaotic amount of sections to be solved. That is the world today; an endless commotion of blank pieces that create an even larger blank space. And my future goal is to find a way to put all those pieces together to construct something

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