Student, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
I could not remember exactly for how many years, since I been wondering what is the meaning of the life? What is the purpose of things that I do? I think it all begins at the time when I was in elementary school. It was the time that 911 occured, 1st Ipod released, George W. Bush become the president, and the war in Afghanistan began. It was the time when internet and personal computer gone popular and media grows explosively rapid and the world changing with big events every moment.
That was the time I started wondering, what am I doing? Why should I do what I am doing now? Not long after that I have got the chance to come to America, so even thought I have not yet found the answer, but I figured what I should do. I decided to do what I wanted to do, which is to find out why people like different things and value different things, in other words to find out what people like and why do they like it. Pursuing the answers to these questions are not something new, but since we all have not yet found the answer, and I am at a place where they have great experience on such things, I decided to take the chance and went into the Philosophy department.
People often get confused about something, I personally were especially confused about this world, on why it works this way, seemingly chaos, yet has some orders in it, vice versa, and the way it continues to be. Most of the friends who heard about me stepping into Philosophy usually just laugh at me. They think it is not practical and it’s a joke. However, I think we sometimes have to examine our life more carefully, not just living it the way like everybody else, doing things that your parents expected you to do or thing that all of your friends are doing. We have to think about why are we doing those things instead of doing it unconciously, which would be a waste of life.
Why do I do what I do? I don’t want to live a mist life, I want to figure out what my heart truly desires and why do I want it, why do I like it? Although I might never be able to found the answer, but at lease what I am doing now is what I wanted to do at the moment, which is to search for the ultimate answer.
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