Life and Living

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You were born and brought into this world without knowing it. Then, you began to develop and grow up. Your objective of life and living is to survive and thrive. This has everything to do with those around you, such as your parents or foster parents. 

Meaning and Purpose

Your life and living should have a meaning and a purpose. If your parents and those around are positive, you may develop your own positive life and living. On the other hand, negative upbringing often gives a life without any meaning or purpose, thus leading to a dangerous and reckless life, committing crimes and violence further down the road.

Basic Values and Core Values 

Your life and living should also involve basic values and core values. Basic values are not purposely doing the wrong things in life, such as hurting and stealing with no accountability. Core values are your contemplation and self-reflection of your personal values to survive and thrive in your future, such as your choices and decisions in your careers and relationships, as well as your future development and personal priorities. You may become attracted not by the opposites but by those similar to you. Core values often include the following: courage, generosity, gratitude, happiness, helpfulness, self-improvement, and well-being.

Past Experiences and Presentw Experiences

Your past experiences and present experiences always play a pivotal role in your life and living because they affect how you act and think in the days to come.

Perceptions and Interpretations

Your perceptions and interpretation of all the happenings in your life may positively or negatively change your life and living.

An Illustration

In 1997, Richard Alexander from Indiana was convicted as a serial killer because one of the victims and her fiancé insisted that he was the perpetrator, based on what the victim and her fiancé claimed that they "saw with their own eyes." But the convicted man was later exonerated and subsequently released in 2001, based on new DNA science and other forensic evidence.

Experts explained that a traumatic experience, such as a rape, could distort the perception of an individual. That explains why the woman and her fiancé swore that Richard Alexander was the rapist, and evidently he was not.   

So, life and living is everything in your existence in this world.

Stephen Lau

 

  

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