Importance Of Human Life

The very essence of humans or in other words the most important aspect of human life is to generate the means of subsistence. Humans should at first find ways of providing themselves with food, shelter and clothes. But the historical evidence seems to suggest otherwise. In this essay I would look at the importance of a loving family and friends and also the importance of a successful career. Then would look at how one could undermine the other but at the same time how it could complement each other. But it should be noted that the importance of these two aspects of life can vary according to the cultural differences.
The current world system is a capitalist one. An economic way of organizing life where the means of making a profit remains in private hands. Therefore success of life has been increasingly come to be measured in terms of your economic wealth. So one should make a lot of money if they are to be deemed successful. The bureaucratic nature of modern society favours people with qualifications and not privileged through birth. This gives us more room to steer our lives carving up our destiny as we see fit. How successful you are in your career will decide how rich you are unless you are born to a very wealthy family from which you are sure to receive a substantial amount of inheritance. But not any people have this change so they are left with the option of making it out in life all by themselves. And given the hardships that should be undertaken in order to become 'successful' it is certainly a great achievement to have a successful career and a lot of money. But this is just one form of measurement. And it doesn't mean that it is hard that not many people make it. It's just that not many people make that effort to work...

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...re the only way to live in abundance is through earning money a successful career is a great achievement. One is not more or less important than the other. Both are of them are certainly very much important. All you need to have a living family and friends is to live in harmony with them. But a successful career requires a lot of support and hard work. So yes, a successful career is a far greater achievement contradicting the view of the topic. One could say that people have successful careers but broken families. True I agree, but the family is broken because he/she became more career centric somewhere down the road. But t it was a loving family and loving friends was what propelled that person to that position in the first place. So if a person has a successful career and a loving family and also loving friends it’s the greatest achievement in that person’s life.