What A Good Life Means
The vessel in which we see the world is the human body, so it should be healthy to fully enjoy life. The health of humans can be broken down into physical and mental health. Physical health is the state of well-being that allows us to perform our daily activities without issue. Not being physically healthy can cause physical pain, discomfort, and restricts our abilities to perform actions. Mental health is a person’s condition with regard to their psychological well-being. When we are free of all psychological problems, good mental health strengthens and supports our ability to have healthy relationships, make good life choices, handle the natural ups and downs of life, and allows us to live our lives to the fullest. Being both physically and mentally healthy is important in having a good life since having health issues regardless of it being physical or mental, causes a decrease in the enjoyment of life. To further support the idea of staying healthy, it is imperative that we also remember to do the small things that are beneficial to our body like getting enough sleep, eating properly, or getting enough exercise. By doing these small things daily it improves brain function, emotional well-being, physical health, performance, and much more.
Most people tend to forget about these small habits, however, not taking care of our body day to day will come back to harm us in the future. Taking care of our body and health is essential to our enjoyment of life since by staying healthy we can achieve our goals and not be held back by ourselves.
In life, wanting to know more about the world provides us with new constantly changing perspectives and gives us a sense of direction. By expanding our horizons and learning all that we can, we see the world in a different light and we are given new appreciations to many things in the world. With this new understanding and appreciation of the world, we can then engage with surroundings in many different ways that we never could have imagined. When people pursuit more knowledge, they should also follow their interests instead of learning without purpose. If the topics we are pursuing interest us, it will bring us delight, making us want to learn more about the topic. Learning should never be forced upon someone since people who want to learn will naturally find ways of gaining knowledge. Another benefit of gaining more knowledge is being able to share different experiences and different types of knowledge with each other. Knowledge is not a one-way street and learning from others should be balanced by teaching others. The sharing of information among one another is how people learn. By sharing our experiences and learning about the successes and failures of others, we can then incorporate their experiences to help improve ourselves and the surrounding people. Whether it is making us happy by learning something of our interests, letting us appreciate the world in a new way, or by giving us the opportunity to share what we know with others, the pursuit of knowledge provides us with a sense of satisfaction that is purely unique.
In conclusion, a good life consists of having good companionship, staying healthy, and expanding our horizons of the world. With dependable companions, we have people that we can rely on that make us more productive and happy. By staying healthy, we do not hold ourselves back and can attempt to achieve almost anything. By continually wanting to learn, we set a clear goal for ourselves in life and are constantly making ourselves better. A person’s opinion on what defines a good life may be different based on many factors like age or the experiences that they have faced. However, regardless of what we think makes a good life, we as humans should do whatever it takes to bring fulfillment into our lives.
