The Importance Of Existentialism

As one bends down to retrieve a copper coin on the street with rusted eyes staring back at him, he also sees his future. At least today’s society generates this idea when people see Abraham Lincoln gazing at them from the front of a penny on the sidewalk. Many use objects like this as symbols of significance that they can latch onto, as they gallop through life with the hand of an inherent whip striking at their rumps. These human animals whinny, neigh, and keep muzzled as deemed appropriate by the significance they continuously chase. Furthermore, this idea draws back to the 1800s where many allowed an inborn meaning to control their reins. However, some trotted off the beaten path and created a concept known as Existentialism, the idea that

Despite their deviating understandings, Existentialists follow their own beaten path of following no beaten path. Considering this, Existentialists create their own satisfying significance for existence, while simultaneously avoiding society’s alienating wrath.

Today’s society follows a pathway as they journey through the forest of life; however, Existentialists believe they must lay the stepping stones of this path in order to obtain a satisfactory lifestyle.To narrow down this Existential “pathway,” Existentialists detect no predetermined yellow brick road that must be followed to achieve a set of characteristics predisposed for a certain person, but rather a person simply lives his life with these qualities following as Toto would Dorothy. With that said, one must create his own significance just by living, rather than delving into the cracks and crevices of a prearranged passageway to discover it. However, because of this unset meaning of existence, many wonder what the point of living is. Being destined to nothing sounds futile in itself. It’s presented as if beings are born to die which justifies the world’s

In fact, Mercury dives directly into the murky waters of Existentialism in the lyrics of the song. “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.” Through this, one can depict an understanding of existence prior to essence. As there is “no escape from reality”, there is no avoiding the inevitable, death. With that said, preceding this line, when Mercury states he’s “caught in a landslide”, he suggests that everything he’s accomplishing in life cruises on a slope angled downwards. A couple lines later, Mercury announces, “ I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy.” Accounting this, Mercury delivers the message that he lives as an individual. He desires no assistance nor sympathetic gestures from other beings no matter the scenario and obviously lives for himself as all Existentialists do in the creation of their own significance. After that, Mercury sings, “Because I’m easy come, easy go. Little high, little low. Anyway the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me.” Through this, he thoroughly justifies the absurd piece in this Existential puzzle. By “easy come, easy go. Little high, little low,” he illustrates a certain energy in relation to not caring that’s radiated when meaning is overlapped by the world’s absurdity. However, he really justifies this tenet when he says, “Anyway the wind blows doesn’t