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Just now i was doing my readings for Personality Psychology,
& wld like to share something interesting from a book by David C Funder.
this echoes other blogposts about ‘being alive’, but in a deeper, unrelated way.

NOTE: this may be alittle complicated/abstract.

First, existentialism serves to regain contact with the experience of being alive & aware.
Existential analysis begins with the concrete & specific experience of a human being existing at a particular moment in time & space.
We might always ask, why are we here? What should we be doing?
According to the existential philosopy, there are no answers beyond those we invent for ourselves.
The unpleasant feelings caused by contemplating these concerns are called existential anxieties (anguish, forlornness & despair).

So how then, do we go about dealing with all these ‘anxieties’?
Face them directly of course,
but there is a way out, at least temporarily,
which is to avoid the problem altogether.
however, Existentialists call this approach living in bad faith.

To ignore these troubling facts of existence is to live a cowardly lie, saying it in a more extreme manner, it amounts to selling your soul for comfort.
You are given just one short life, & u’re giving it up if u refuse to examine the substance & meaning of ur experience.
You might as well not be alive!!
Existentially speaking, u might as well be a rock.

Thus, as long as we r alive & aware, we must experience as much of the world as possible, as vividly as possible.
Unfortunately, many pple end up not doing this, they lead unexamined lives, never realizing how lucky they are to be alive & aware, & they eventually lose their awareness forever without realising how special it was.

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