Fridays class we talked about Existentialism, a topic I was never familiar with. Since then there has been a constant monologue picking it apart in my head. I dont know if that even makes sense but its true. I have thought about how much easier life would be if that was what we lived by and yet how much harder it would become. I feel like people dont really live the lives they want but rather the lives they need. We study not because we want to gain a greater grasp of knowledge but rather to get into a good college which would insure a greater chance of getting a job that pays more. I think thats completely wrong to do, in a sense your robbing yourself. One should want to learn in order to expand our horizons, to see differently, to grow, to travel, to understand and to create. We should pick a study that doesn't become a job for money but rather a career or quest of finding or becoming what we want. I feel like the attitude that non of this really matters would make people loosen up and finally do things that they have always dreamed of but never had the guts to do. It would allow them to live to their fullest and not worry about that if they dont make the right decision everything will fall apart. But on the other hand it would create complete chaos  and disorder. Nothing would get done for the benefit of the whole society but would only be done for the individual. Maybe what is needed is a society and a life that balances the two, that enforces moral codes and the need for an orderly society but also allows the freedom that everyone needs.  But I guess that doesn't lie in the society but rather in the individual. One must decided for themselves how to live their lives so that they can gain as much from this experience as they can, not because it matters to some sort of afterlife but rather because it matters now. One thing that I greatly disagree with the Existentialism theory  is that we do not matter, that after we die nothing from us will remain. I believe that each us effect everything. The people we meet, the places we go, the things we do, the actions we make  and the words we say never truly go away. They create ripples, effecting the places, the people and in the end the events of the world. Were all tied together in one way or another and the footsteps we make never truly go away.

" Our fingerprints never fade from the lives we touch."

I guess Existentialism is just another theory that shows us how no matter how hard we try to figure life out, it always has a way of surprising us and showing us that we are wrong  and that theirs more to it than we originally thought.