HW 30

What are the sources of this sense of meaninglessness but also of the need for a sense of meaning?


I agree that all humans seem to have an overwhelmingly share a sense of emptiness, because all humans try to find something in our lives in order to make ourselves happy or what ever the case might be. Most people now and days try to find to find a way to play the heroic role in our lives in order to make us feel better about ourselves or in order to become “famous” and feel superior. Other people try to find love in their lives also because the feeling of being alone to them is most likely boring so they must find a partner in their lives in order to feel good, and also happy. On the other hand people try to live in honor so most likely people would be patriotic in order to be honored by people around them, since people in the military get a lot of respect and honor for their duties of helping their country. Then the rest of us try to live a story and make sure their life is perfect and that their happy as can be without no problems at all in their life, basically the rest of the people out their want to live a happy ever after story, which is pretty much impossible not to go through challenges in our lives because then we will never learn or become wiser without certain experiences in life. In order to reach this so called goals we try our hardest to please others around us instead of thinking about ourselves first. We work way to hard to meet this requirements that some of us do something extreme in order to get on the news to feel popular and more out there, like when people see a news broadcaster in the street you realize that some people act like their not even there while some people make faces or wave in order to get attention and feel more full and get more “out” there. For instance psychologist Clive Hazell states that “attributes feelings of emptiness to problematic family backgrounds with abusive relationships and mistreatment. He claims that some people who are facing a sense of emptiness try to resolve their painful feelings by becoming addicted to a drug or obsessive activity (be it compulsive sex, gambling or work) or engaging in "frenzied action" or violence. In sociology, a sense of emptiness is associated with social alienation of the individual. This sense of alienation may be suppressed while working, due to the routine of work tasks, but during leisure hours or during the weekend, people may feels a sense of "existential vacuum" and emptiness.” This shows that people try many ways in order to feel more full in their life more out there they try to cope with the emptiness feelings in our lives that we try anything or go that extra mile.