Persuasive Essay: Life And Being Alive, Like The Journey

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Imagine living a life without any adventure or adversity; a life with no struggle a life with no challenges. It wouldn’t be much of a life at all or even a life worth living. Being alive isn’t about just breathing and being conscious rather its is about struggle and using that struggle to create value and to create a purpose in our life. Being alive and having a life is too precious and too valuable to be wasted. We don’t have time to hate ourselves or regret our mistakes because hate is just a waste of emotion and regrets only deepen the wounds. To be alive is to be at peace with yourself and with others, it 's about not being afraid of what 's to come next and embracing your faults and mistakes. Life and being alive is like the journey …show more content…

For example, millions of people died during the civil war so that African Americans like myself could be free and have better lives. it is not a choice but an obligation that we live our lives with purpose, whether that 's pursuing our careers and doing something we love or helping those that are less fortunate. By doing so we not only are we honoring ourselves but those who made it possible for us, so that all those lives that were lost during those harsh times were for a greater cause, because what good does it do for us and those who have fought long and hard for our freedom, if we are swearing your allegiance to a gang and getting locked up and ultimately losing our freedom. That 's not what living is about nor what our ancestors fought …show more content…

Chris McCandless saw life different than most people did. He wished to live in a way where he believed that he was his fulfilling his purpose. Although he left the ones he loved and gave up what he had Chris McCandless did what was necessary to feel alive. Many people like myself would disagree with what he did, and it contradicts with my definition of being alive, it would be wrong to judge a man who made his decisions based on how he believed what being alive is. With that said we can assume that what McCandless was trying to do was to find himself, but “life is not about finding yourself. It 's about creating yourself.” If McCandless were to embrace what he had and coped with what he felt was pointless, he wouldn’t have had to leave it all behind rather he could have used it to create his life

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