Final Blog (accidently previewd and not published last night)

     Before this unit, I didn't really think much about human existance and why we are here living. I have always really just lived by the "live life to the fullest" idea and that we should live every day like its our last because we don't have a lot of time here on earth. Unlike an existentialist, I don't believe that we are here for nothing and that life is pointless. I believe that while we are here we should try to leave the world a better place than when we came into it and we should try to have a positive impact on everyone we meet. There is a significant difference between existing and living because when you are simply existing, you are just alive and breathing. When you are truely living, you are living life to the fullest and you are taking full advantage of being alive. We often hear people say that they feel like they are truly living, meaning that they are truly enjoying life and having a great time existing. To truly live life, you can't simply be existing, you need to be living life in a way that doesn't just think about right in the present, but also occasionally looking back to the past and into the future.
    Human interaction is definately an important part of life. I belive that it is important that at the end of our lives we should have positively impacted some of the people that we leave behind and should be remembered for helping people in some way or another. People that are alone are most often the unhappiest and most people that are alone wish that they could have other people around to be with them and unlike existentialists, most people enjoy being with other people and would rather spend time with other people than by themselves.
    It hads really reaffirmed by beliefs becuase I have now seen the life that an existentialist and the dissapointment and loneliness that they go through and I realize that I dont want in my life. I would rather be with friends and people that I care about than go on through life not caring about whats going to happen next and only living in the now. If anything it has made me want to life more outbeat and courageously, opposite of the existentialist beliefs.