Response to Karla

"Would you like to know when the last day of your life is going to be or not?"

This question has been asked many times in life. I always find the answers to this question quite complex and torn. Personally, I would not want to know when I was going to die. I feel like once we know this information, it becomes our sole focus. Even if the date is far off into the future, our date of death would always be at the front of our mind. Although we know we are mortal, humans try to find ways to defeat the call of death. If I knew what day was going to be my last, I would try and do everything and anything to keep myself alive. Nobody wants to know when they will die. No matter what it will always be a major worry in our minds if we knew. It is much easier to live life as if it were our last day. Although, we did discuss this phrase in class. I feel like it just means to not live your life in fear, to live you life, to say the least.

What do you make of the phrase "live every day as if it were your last?"

Dream on. A response to Austin.

I was looking through my fellow students' blogs to find one that struck me. I was expecting to find one relating to the existentialist movement but instead I found one relating back to dreams. Austin asked the question: Do you think it would be nice to turn your dreams into reality sometimes? Now I will answer this question.

First of all, who are we to say that we aren't already dreaming this world we live in. Because we personally are experiencing it, it is reality. But, in actuality, the world we think we live in could be just a dream. Now, let's just say that the world we live in is real. Would it be worth it for our dreams to become reality? I feel like that would be the easy way out, in a sense. Dreams can inspire us to do wonders in the real world. Sometimes it would be nice if life were a dream, but that wouldn't be fun all the time. Especially if those dreams became nightmares, but that's a different story. We need dreams to be separate of reality because that is how we live. We can only truly accomplish something if we have our dreams behind us and are not directly living in a dream.