do we need INSTRUCTIONS on how to LIVE LIFE?

Answer 1

For Knowledge in living life...YES. Because Knowledge is learned. And that knowledge to live life...is need. Even the basic kinds. Actually...ESPECIALLY the basic kind. But fot Wisdom in living life...NO. Because Wisdom is earned. You can not understand and learn it until you earn. You do not get instructions for the Wisdomful side of your life. But for the Knowledgeable side - Yes. You can...and you probably will need those instructions.

Answer 2

We may need advice but not instructions as life is an expedition on which we are supposed to discover, to start with ourselves and then from our mistakes pull ourselves together again! So no instructions will be like living a life without meaning or learning! Not worth living at all!!
Thank you :-)

Answer 3

Yes! But some of us would be too lazy to read the instructions or we couldn't make sense of the diagrams & would still put it all together wrong & have pieces left over (ok maybe I put together one too many pieces of furniture from IKEA, but it seems a fitting metaphor!)

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. Although there are a lot of handy self-help tomes out there. I think anything that promotes positive thinking/the law of attraction can't hurt...the rest is just experience, common sense and hope....

Answer 4

That'd be nice. Wish we all had mandatory classes about life each year in school and in college, where everyone could share opinions about what everyone has learned thus far.

Although everyone has undergone different experiences, has learned different things and sees things differently, I feel there are common threads running in every life and it'd be great to express and learn from those.

Too bad that wisdom comes only with age....
By the time we have figured a few things out...time seems to be running out. Or maybe that's just my sad perspective :). But it's a good thing, that what we have learned, we can pass on to the next generation, and thus leave behind a meaningful legacy.....

Answer 5

yes!
you do need instructions on how to live life particularly in such situations where you are indecisive.
and the best instructions usually come from your parents and then teachers.
sometimes from teachers if our parents ignoring that aspect .
but majorily from parents.
father 's instructions are very effective and have solid impact .
these instructions kead us to apply them in our life.
mother's instructions are true enough and they are near to us most of the time but we don't take as seriously as we take our father's instructions.
the world in which we live makes society and in some situations we feel helpless then here we have to get something from the experience of others.

Answer 6

I think that they are not instructions because it is not a game they are advices that we were given and still from our parents and grand parents and life it self life is school by itself we learn from life more than anything by living it how?? as I said in your other question by learning from our mistakes because life is not just breathing or waiting to die.
have a gr8 day ;D

Answer 7

"Instruction" sounds rather too rigid a word. A human being is not a machine that requires a remote control to function well.

But I do believe that it is good to have certain "guidelines" or "guidance"; be it moral, social, parental or spiritual, depending on one's beliefs, by which a person would be able to use his free will to interpret and make his own conclusions and decisions to act upon.

".....And thirdly, the Code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.... Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner!"
- Captain Barbossa, Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Answer 8

No, because it is almost impossible to follow a pre-ordained set of instructions because situations and circumstances change, sometimes drastically. The instructions would be obsolete within a few years because of unforeseen changes and challenges exclusive of any instruction sheets.

Answer 9

Perhaps we would be fortunate to be advised regarding what the "complete makeup" of a human is, at "all levels of being"--beyond the obvious physical; kind of a primer on the "subtle anatomy, and connections" associated with our life.

And, as well, what our true potential is, as opposed to what some/many are brainwashed into accepting as "the limited reality" of their situation?

I "intuit" that we are educated by our schools and "authority figures" to believe that we are far less powerful and capable than is the truth of the matter. :))

Hmm. could there be a reason why important information is less readily available than might be desirable? :)

Answer 10

yes, this is what parents, friends, relatives, teachers and people around us in general, do. every decision one makes depends on the opinion of somebody.we don't live undependable from the people that surround us. the advices, the opinions, the obligations, the rules, etc, that we fallow, these are the instructions on how to live life.