Purpose of Life
good afternoon everyone my name is carl
and i’m currently in eighth grade
i’d like to start off by asking you all
a question i know we all want to get
better and we struggle to get there but
why do we do that personally my goal for
the year is to improve on my dancing
i want that because i want to exercise
regularly and yes
dance is a sport fighting me and to
improve on my self-confidence
some people want to be better because
they want something from society or from
the community you are in
other people do so because they want to
fulfill their curiosity
for example the wright brothers answer
their inquiry about whether humans can
fly
by inventing the airplane here are the
reasons why i think humans struggle in
life to be better
to improve themselves cute to get what
they want and
to fill their curiosity
are constantly struggling in life
because we always have a goal
change is how you improve changing
yourself from who we are now
to that better version of yourself well
what is the definition of better
everyone has that perfect image you have
in your mind that’s
made up from your childhood fantasy of
what your mom was like or the opposite
of what her friend was like that night
fought with her that imagined version of
herself
has to be better than the people around
you from doing that
you are pressured and stressed
from those things we want to become
better
because we get compared to people every
day we are constantly pressured from our
surroundings
there are many reasons why someone
struggles to be better
back to my example dance i want to
exercise regularly and improve on my
self-confidence right
well i enjoy the feeling of dance of
struggling during dance because i know
how i will feel when i finish it
and feel proud when i’m on stage
from certainly in life we struggle with
things
like learning when you are learning you
are often very stressed because
you get exposed to more things that new
information
once you acquire a new skill the process
of learning is going to be tough
um from doing that one becomes more
diverse
more versatile and can do more things
like earning money
experience new things and adapt to the
ever changing society
because we are in a digitalizing age and
technology is going to be the future
if you have the foundations of math
chemistry
physics you have knowledge that you got
from the struggle
hence that is the better version of
yourself
another reason to why we struggle is to
get what we want
beliefs and values change as you get
older or learn new things
we want berries for each person as
everyone’s going life is different
but there’s one similarity we all want
to be better
we want perfection the type of
perfection that doesn’t exist
we want new things because what we
wanted
isn’t something that we strive for
anymore there’s this word called hedonic
adaptation
that is there’s no one thing that can
make you happy forever
it’s the tendency of humans to quickly
return to a relatively stable level of
happiness
despite major recent positive or
negative
life-changing events so sometimes when
we get what we want or we don’t want
that excitement fades away quickly
therefore means we want
more new things we have a remarkable
ability to use
curiosity and inspiration to foresee a
greater world than the present
what if we went to the moon what if we
could fly
all of these were just pigments of
someone’s imagination
we believe in our imagination and it’s
our belief that brings that idea from
imagination to reality
without curiosity we can’t be inspired
enough to pursue our dreams
i believe that our ability to constantly
aspire to be different
is rooted in both faith and evolution
we are curious about what we don’t
understand
our human brain is always curious things
that we don’t master or have prior
knowledge of
we try to seek for the answers um
we’re curious because it’s the driving
force behind
everything we know and through struggle
you can when you’re
struggling in life to be better you can
get you can fulfill that curiosity
because
you explore and find out new information
as we struggle
goals are something that contributes to
becoming better we struggle to be better
to become that better version of
yourself get us to our goals
and live up to what we expect
improving yourself can be a part of
people’s purpose in life
and this issue is important and the
effect of your
of struggle on your life is immense the
purpose of goals not only can help
yourself
but it can find your meaning wherever
you are
i believe that humans struggle in life
to be successful
because they want to because they want
to
change themselves to get what they want
and meet their expectations in life
and i thought that was an idea worth
spreading thank you