Tidy Up:Self-help from Physically to Mentally The popularity of Marie Kendo’s book which as sold 2 million copies worldwide, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, shows people how to live a proper life. In the book, the author gives a definition to living a proper life, according to the author, a proper life should spark joy. I personally think there are tremendous ways to sparking joy. For instance, making more money or receiving a valuable present or spending quality time with my loved ones, there are many other ways to spark joy. In general, many would have the same thoughts as me to living a proper life however, in the book the author gives an opposite opinion of what living a proper life is like. She tries to tell people that tidying …show more content…
Where items that does not spark joy in you, she would advise you that instead of throwing them away, you could donate them to charity. When Ms. Kondo book arrived in U.S. there was a increase in donation of clothes and household items. There was a 22% increase in the greater New York area based on the Goodwill Industries International statement. Through her book, she offers a philosophy for people struggling with letting all that stuffs that does not spark joy go. Through this paragraph I feel that what Ms. Kondo is trying to achieve is not just aiming to let go of stuffs by just tidying, her main point is letting go of the items that does not spark joy in you, to charity. By doing so you might be able to make yourself find joy in doing something good. After decades, people begin to recognise this problem. we are unable to achieve continuous joy just by getting more things. Therefore people begin to ask for the joy of mind, because after tidying up, rooms become tidy and clean, thus for the tidies, they have to face the inside of themselves. They are forced to find the problems that they avoid of no matter how tricky the problems are. This will lead a huge change and adjustment of
The satisfaction he obtains from overcoming these challenges supports the view that fulfillment comes from actively facing life's challenges rather than choosing a comfortable, risk-free lifestyle. In addition, Honnold's thoughts on pleasure and comfort further show the importance of the value of an examined life. He asserts, "Anyone can be happy and cozy. Nothing good happens in the world by being happy and cozy.
The idea of a full life and how to live it is distorted, in which thirty years of beauty and non-laborious work is worth more than over 60 years of hard work and aging. The people value youth and its beauty and never reaching the age to possible have disease. Not only are the people brainwashed to live according to the society’s rules, their feelings are trained as an infant to like and hate certain things such as nature and books. Random-sounding things maybe, but this dystopian wonderland cannot have people looking for a deeper intelligence or thinking about life in forests. With a lifespan of only thirty, they do not really have much time for that, but to aid the process
It is good to sort out what pleasures are actually good and important, and what will be the overall
this shows that one item could be precious to one person and complete junk to another. This author explains by her dumpster
Kondo’s ideas forces people to lose their connection from past because people are tidying up their houses. However, they may not realize that these are nostalgic and they have memories from the past. Land writes, “My stuff wasn’t just stuff, but a reminder that I had a foundation of support of people who had loved me growing up: a painting I’d done as a child that my mom had carefully framed and hung in our house, a set of antique Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls my ferret once chewed an eye out of when I was 15, artwork my mom had collected over the decade we lived in Alaska” (1). The quote shows how her stuff was not only her stuff, but she had her experiences in them, her life lessons which help her to do better in life and memories with people who she grew up with. Kondo’s methods would define this as owning “too much” of stuff, therefore, it does not bring joy.
pg 56. The most common idea of a utopian lifestyle is when everything is the same but, a Utopian lifestyle is defined as everything being perfect. This book along with providing a very entertaining adventure of a man trying to do what he wants, makes you really think, is equality the only way to achieve a utopian
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.
Generally, Singer hopes that people should make a plausible budget to donate money to strangers (384). He starts criticizing Americans who waste their money in things that not necessary to them when he said, “The average family in United States spends almost one-third of its income on things that are no more necessary to them than Dora’s new TV was to her” (379). Here, Singer is trying to warn families not to spend money in not necessary things that this money could mean difference between life and death. At this point, the author is very serious about people’s spending, which could save children’s lives. He also gives his reader a story about Bob, who been in a difficult situation that he can save a child’s life, but he could lose his fancy
Then he realizes that he was not going to stay with his money when he die. At the end, he helped his employee with a monetary situation. Further, he went to his nephew’s Christmas dinner. Significantly, this novel helps people retrain the meaning of being humble and kind with others. Something that is very important about this novel is that it teaches a lesson of helping others, because you are not going to stay with your money when you die.
And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose” (Rand 111).
I think this is a hint from the author that when you give in to materialism you are giving in to greed and letting go of your humanity or your heart. Lipsha is so
People miss the fact that happiness comes from within. In an attempt to find joy – we must also be cautious about over excessive desire to acquire material objects and wealth. There is a delicate balance that must be reached between the pursuit of happiness, satisfaction, and contentment. While there are many conditions that fulfill ones emotional wellbeing, happiness and how we acquired it, depends upon the
This paper describes and analyzes a life review interview with an older adult. The purpose of this paper is to discuss, record and reflect on an older adult’s life in order to evaluate them on the last stage of Erik Erickson’s theory of psychosocial development; integrity versus despair. This paper will also focus on the elements of a life review as well as the reflections of the interview on the part of the author. JC is a seventy-seven year old white male who lives by himself in New York City. He was born in London, England, and was an only child.
Therefore, rather than giving an accurate definition of a good life, this essay will focus on expressing my
Have you ever dreamed to live well? Or Did you know someone who has lived a good life? If so, how can you define a good life? According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the good life can be defined as “a life marked by a high standard of Living. The good life can be defined as a way that someone plans to live virtuously by having a great education, enough money, and helping others.