Difference Between The Tamed Dog Or The Wild Lion

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The Tamed Dog or The Wild Lion?

When reading Ecclesiastes 9:1-18 there is a quote saying, “A live dog is better than a dead lion”. This saying is how many people live in our everyday lives, safely and with little to no chance of danger. A lion is a dangerous creature, untamable, free and predatory. It is also a lazy animal in a sense it needs to relax and sleep every day before hunting for only a few hours. Dogs are tamable animals, loyal, willingly chained but happy as far at the owner treats them. Life is our owner, and we can either choose to be the lion who is dangerous to oneself but free or the dog who is not free but can live a long comfortable life. This passage of how we spend our time in the world can be interpreted as living a full life according to the bible or living a full life of pleasure and your own set morals. I am choosing a full life with set morals as my answer to this question of what this passage is explaining. We should value …show more content…

I would however, like to add that you must consider your own moral compass when making decisions. Not every human is the same, one may think an idea is wrong and this is okay. Differences in culture, religion, lifestyles etc. will always conflict with the paths we want to take and the ones we actually take. Happiness for me is the key to life. When you are happy you are more productive and you in turn give joy to the world you live in. Before death you can spread the lessons you have learned through your journey to happiness. As death is the last frontier no one has come back from and fully explored. There may be those who have died for a few minutes but no one to actually reanimate from blood and bone to tell the tale. Once you die, that’s it. Living in happiness is the greatest gift humanity has ever received. That is my answer for how we should spend time on this earth; in happiness with the lessons we

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