2007-11-19 20:21:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What do you see when you close your eyes? And what about when you open them? How dramatic is the difference? We are entitled to our fantasies. Indeed, we really ought to see them as essential to our well-being. What's the point of a life without dreams? It's true too, that some dreams are best left unfulfilled. They are more enjoyable in the imagination than they would ever be in reality. Yet every so often, we have to get a little of what we want, if only to maintain the tantalising illusion that the rest might just be attainable.
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2007-11-23 09:50:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a spectrum/continuum of different kinds of people. People on either ends of this spectrum are those who live for the day. On one end, there are those who simply live for today without consciously logically deciding to do so (example: "playas"). On the other end, there are some philosophical types of people who have come to believe through their pursuit of philosophy and truth that the world is not ideal with some higher end result, and that the the purpose to life is happiness. Therefore, the logical conclusion is that you should primarily aim for happiness, which is brought about by living for today. So in summary, those who live for today are either those who don't care about tomorrow and unconsciously live for the day, and those who have consciously decided through logical processes.
2007-11-20 05:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Persons who live for today without hope are
called pessimists.
Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to
events and circumstances in one's life. Hope
implies a certain amount of perseverance i.e.
believing that a positive outcome is possible even
when there is some evidence to the contrary.
A person who dreads of 'what tomorrow may bring'
looses the zeal of life itself. He can not live in
the present even for one day. I do not agree that
'any person can fight the battles of just one
day'. There are many in the world who fight their
battles life long, and still live with some hope.
It is nice to live for today and complete what is
to be done today. But humans are distinguished
from the rest of the living beings by hope. For
other living beings, there may not be tomorrow.
But hope is life for humans. Tomorrow may not come
for a few. But the others are sure that there will
be a day after present one. And it is hoped by
many to be a little better than today. What is not
realized today may be within our reach tomorrow.
It is hope that make people to live through all
torments of life. The moment a person loses hope,
the very zeal to live is lost.
Living in the past is dreaming. Living in the
present intuition connected basic instincts.
Living in hope of is humanistic rationality
to look for future.
Hope - Pandora brought the jar with the evils and
opened it. It was the gods` gift to man, on the
outside a beautiful, enticing gift, called the
"lucky jar." Then all the evils, those lively,
winged beings, flew out of it. Since that time,
they roam around and do harm to men by day and
night. One single evil had not yet slipped out of
the jar. As Zeus had wished, Pandora slammed the
top down and it remained inside. So now man has
the lucky jar in his house forever and thinks the
world of the treasure. It is at his service; he
reaches for it when he fancies it. For he does not
know that the jar which Pandora brought was the
jar of evils, and he takes the remaining evil for
the greatest worldly good - it is hope! For Zeus
did not want man to throw his life away, no matter
how much the other evils might torment him, but
rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew.
To that end, he gives man hope.
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life
are something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for." - Joseph Addison
Hope! Hope! Hope!
Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left - -
Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft;
When even his dog deserts him, and his goat
With tranquil disaffection chews his coat
While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou,
The star far-flaming on thine angel brow,
Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint
The promise of a clerkship in the Mint.
People sow seeds with hope
And hope is the seed of life
People through ages hoped for eternity
Because hope is as great as eternity
Never give-up hope, never ever
Hope is your best mate, all the time
Even if all desert you unexpectedly
Hope will be with you, if you wish....
2007-11-20 08:48:56 · answer #3 · answered by d_r_siva 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is life....It happens....everyone works today to make a better tomorrow..that way..each day will be better than yesterday.
2007-11-20 11:43:06 · answer #4 · answered by hello there! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in reality, people live to work, and work to live.
2007-11-20 04:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
who is thinking it's enough for me....he is called...living in presence....!
2007-11-22 03:23:23 · answer #6 · answered by Raja.R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those of yesterday.
2007-11-20 04:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by word_scratcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ME AND ANYONE WHO LOVES LIFE AS IT COMES
2007-11-20 04:29:53 · answer #8 · answered by askkate2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋