The Image in the Mirror: Life without Purpose

Authors: Mbegu S*

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000244

Volume 5, Issue 2

Abstract

Both living and non-living creatures in this world have a purpose for their existence, but life carries great purposes and meaningfulness to any living creature in this world. It is this meaningfulness of life that differentiates living and non-living creatures. Most living creatures struggle to keep alive as a solely reason for life. Yes, it may sound correct for other creatures but not humans. Humans possess many cognitive abilities such as reasoning, planning and a full-blown language capacity, these abilities cannot be seen in other living creatures. This suggests to me that, struggling to keep alive cannot be the solely reason for human life. Despite the fact that we are humans and all of us live in this world, some of us will be instantly forgotten when they have gone. However, some individuals will remain in people’s memory ages, to them death will be achievement. Similar to the image in the mirror, some people’s memories fade out instantly when someone gets away, this is what I call ‘Image in the Mirror: Life Without Purpose”. Embracing those who have managed to cling on after they have gone, this paper employed a review of literature and focus group discussion methodology. Thus, ultimately the paper has discussed why some people have managed to leave behind a positive unforgettable mark in our society that, we’re still psychoanalyzing and studying them, while other just fade away

Keywords: Life without purpose

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