Hopefully, on my travels I will find my existential purpose and will be able to pursue that purpose and become the person I want to be. This is one of the main reasons why I am trying to go out of state for college and am planning on doing a year of study abroad, traveling around and experiencing many different cultures. The person who I want to become changes daily and is impossible to conjure up until I have experienced different cultures. Although, if you go a little deeper into the meaning behind existentialism it goes beyond what your career is but trying to figure out whom you are as a person and how you impact others. Everyone has to figure out their purpose at some point in their life, whether that’s being a teacher, a doctor, or running your own business. I hope to find my purpose soon, but until then I will follow a philosophy of living life to the fullest and taking chances that might lead me to find my purpose.Ĭarla Many people do not know what the word, existentialism means, but it is in everyone’s lives. However, with all this external existentialism around me, I am still searching for my own internal existentialism.
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I see existentialism on TV when I am watching the news and hear about tragic suicides, committed by people who have lost sight of their existential purpose. I see existentialism in religion, as so many of my friends believe so devoutly in their religion that it has become their central life force, their purpose, their reason for existence. I see existentialism in my parents’ lives, as they have found a purpose for life: us, their children. However, the thought of a “purpose for existence” is very evident in my life. Trevor I have spent seventeen years on this planet, yet am still not sure if I am any closer to finding my existential purpose than I was seventeen years ago. To finish off this project, each of us wrote about our perspective on existentialism and how it is prevalent in our lives. But there is only so much hurt a man can take.Ĭlick this link to watch a video of this scene: I miss it more than anything in the world. Do I kill you or do I not kill you? But I have to Jessica, because I’m not human.
This is who I am.ĭamon (to Jessica): You are my existential crisis. I can’t be what other people want me to be. It’s not gonna make me good, make me adopt a puppy. What’s the point? It’s not gonna change anything. He is struggling with good and bad, what he wants to be and what people want him to be, and what he feels like he is supposed to do.ĭamon (to Jessica): I have a secret, a big one. In the popular show The Vampire Diaries, one of the characters, Damon, experiences an existential crisis about his identity. This is a great example of existentialism because Pippin the young prince is trying to discover his purpose in life and what he is called to do. Pippin struggles to decide whether he should settle down and pursue a peaceful life or continue to make magic with the dazzling troupe of performers. The prince falls in love with Catherine, a widow with a young son. Realizing his mistake, Pippin begs the Leading Player to bring his father back to life, and she obliges. But when the Leading Player convinces the prince to fight tyranny, Pippin kills Charles and takes over the throne. To prove his loyalty to his distracted father, King Charles, Pippin goes to war. “Our whole lives laid out right in front of us”Īs these quotes show, this song touches on the individualism aspect of existentialism, speaking of the delicate balance of the world that the individual has the ability to control.īroadways Pippin tells the story of a young prince who longs to find passion and adventure in his life. Stating that it is up to the individual to figure out their purpose and that only they can “write” their own story.Įxistentialism of Prom Night by Straylight Run These are all quotes from her song that express the idea of existentialism. I’m just beginning, the pen’s in my hand, ending unplanned” “I am unwritten, can’t read my mind, I’m undefined
In fact, we come across examples of it more often than we may realize.Ĭlick on the link below to listen to an audio clip of this song: Existentialism is a part of many different aspects of our world today.
As society develops and changes, existentialism changes with it. Existentialism has been a prevalent part of society dating back to the 1940`s.
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