OTHER PEOPLE'S PERSPECTIVE [draft 2]

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
..Other People's Perspective..

While on the search to identify my own personal meaning of life, I must be able to open my mind, and take other people’s opinions of life into thought. The meaning of life that I plan to find out, should be one that other’s can relate to as well. I plan to feed off of many people’s ideas and depict each thought to create my own. I have made an effort to consult three family members of mine as well as a few friends, and with that my school mates in School of the Future high school were all given surveys.
After consulting each stance my mother took when unraveling her thoughts about her own personal meaning, I have questioned whether or not I personally thought it was up to par with my own possible meaning, and if it can relate on a universal aspect as well. At some instance, I hesitated to believe that one’s own, personal life is based on building relationships with other people. I could not understand how the connection between myself and the others around me could make up my own life’s meaning
I sat down with my mother, Alicia, and asked her what her meaning of life was. She seemed startled by the question at first, being that it’s not typically something one would probably ask a person. After taking a few moments to gather her thoughts, she finally brought herself to say that life is about love. Interesting enough, my mother came to the conclusion that life was all about building relationships with people and creating certain connections with them. “Life is about finding people who are compatible with you. Someone with whom you can enjoy their company, and relate with one another” she stated, and continued to say that life is basically about not being alone.


On our search to find our own meaning of life, it was only necessary that we set out to find other people’s perceptions as well. As a class, we decided to create survey’s and hand them out to each class within our entire school, including grades 6-12. We separated each grade’s answers, with the exception of 11th and 12th grade, we categorized the two into the senior institute. I happened to be one that not only analyzed each survey and classified each answer, but I was assigned to actually give out the surveys to a number of classes within my own 11th grade classes. I was able to witness first hand what it was like for my fellow students to answer these questions. Watching each class as a whole, take the time to sit down and answer the given answers with what was supposed to be with genuine thoughts and truth, when each person received the survey, I’d noticed many with very similar reactions. I’d noticed that for many people, the moment they’d read the questions, such as “What is most important in your life right now?”, “What tends to reoccur in your life right now, and what would you do to change it?”, and “how does the society put boundaries over your definition of the meaning of life” etc. By appearances, I noticed that the many students had just written the first thing that entered their mind. Many seemed to have found a certain comfort in relying on the archetypal “slogan” answers to replace their meaning of life. Catch phrases, and answers that just may sound like a typically good response appeared to be very popular throughout examining answers. With dealing with question “What is most important to you”, I found that the responses from the senior institute were most peculiar. The 11th and 12th graders, above all the other grades were the most frequent to either answer it or leave it blank. While all the other grades may have simply answered with an “I don’t know” the senior institute had the highest ratio of those who just decided to not answer it at all. From this I get the sense that it seems the older one is, the more well-off one is with either having their specific answer or just not having one at all. From this I feel that with age, people tend to either direct themselves in the black or white complete answers, or just outright non-opinionated. There’s not really much space for any grey areas.

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