A long overdue entry

It's been long since i last updated, so here's an entry from my old blog about the Examined and Unexamined life.

I really don't have the luxury of friends.

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

  - Socrates

 

To live life to its fullest one must seek to live the examined life.

 

Socrates said that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living”. It is up to each one of us to decide for him/herself whether or not he/she wants to chart the course of living the examined life.

 

What does an examined life look like? What does an examined life feel like? What is the essential difference between an examined and an unexamined life?

 

The unexamined life is one in which a person accepts as truth and real all that they are told is truth and real, without question, reflection or reasoning beyond the mere words that one has passed along to them. Just as the act of going to school, in and of itself, is not an education, being told something does not make it necessarily so. Many, if not most, of the opinions we hold in our lives have been told to us by others. If we do not examine them we are then living our lives as extensions of the sources of the things that we’ve been told. There are none so blind as they who choose not to see. In order to see, you must first make sure to look.

 

The examined life, on the other hand, is an unfolding process. It is a journey of  always seeking more. One is not content with what appears to be true. The examined life welcomes questions; you take the time to reflect upon what is told to you; you reason and measure the relevance of each piece of information and the lesson from each life experience against one another. You seek to truly form your own opinions based upon reasoned thought and experience. Questions are the soul of the examined life.

 

The unexamined life holds us prisoner to illusion by keeping our essential truths hidden just a little deeper than we may ever seek to look. The examined life is lived in the spaces in between the shadows of illusion that are mistakenly referred to as “collective reality”.

 

Be a seeker of more.

 

Live and experience the examined life.