What are we living for? What drives our actions everyday?
I think about this all the time, especially now since I am preparing myself to take control of my own life and go off to college. People are constantly asking me what I want to major in or what I want to be in the future. The reactions that I get when I tell people I want to be a dancer vary from shock to confusion. The follow-up question is typically "What do you want to do after that?" and the awkward silence commences. I have always been told that I should want to study something "practical" so I could make money. That is society's standard. In a sense, society wants people live to be successful.
I, on the other hand, think people should live to be happy. The likelihood of each one of us impacting a large enough mass of people to create a true legacy is slim to none so essentially it's as if we didn't exist. In the end it doesn't matter who's approval you get about anything because in the end if it makes you happy that is all that really matters. Who's to say that what you're doing isn't satisfactory when you think it is? Everyone has the liberty to have their own thoughts and ideas as well as to do as they please (at least in this country). Realistically, our country has to be based on some rules and standards to maintain chaos and as long as you're doing something ethical that makes you happy, then there is nothing wrong with that.
We're living to be happy and content. We're willing to live in a way to make the most out of the life that we live and that may vary from person to person but that doesn't make someone wrong. Everyone should strive to be happy. That's what drives our actions everyday.
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