Joyful life
What does it mean to live a successful and joyful life? What are the requirements to get there and what do you need to do in order to feel happy and successful? Well the answer really depends on the different perspectives you look at this question from. Throughout my years here at St. John Eudes the one specific phrase I heard all the time was to look at things from the "Catholic Christian point of view". If you were to ask someone in the catholic faith about what it means to live a joyful and successful life, you would probably get something along the lines of, as long as you feel like you are rich in spirit or have your morales straight and want to spend your life serving God and you are happy with whatever you are doing then you are already living a successful and joyful life. But let's say we ask someone outside of faith from our own society, what do you think they will say? Well if you just sit there watching tv or on social media and just really think about what you are seeing, you will probably recognize the real things they are saying like, you need to live a materialistic life that revolves around money, women, cars, clothes and what ever helps you feed your greed.
Well about a couple weeks ago, I was watching the Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight on pay per view and you can see a huge difference between the morales of the two fighters. As a lot of us know, Manny Pacquiao is a very religious man and he is very down to earth and has his morales straight, but when you look at Mayweather it is a whole different story. He is all about the money, women, cars and pretty much all the materialistic things in the world. As I watched I remembered him saying something like "money isn't everything, it's the only thing." And I just sat their thinking like "wow this is all over tv, there is millions of people watching him including children that look up to him and that is the message he's gonna give out to them like c'mon man there's nothing better you can say?" So that's when I realized that there are different perspectives and we are surrounded with many bad role models that stand for the wrong things but yet they are still being promoted and making lots of money for just showing how great their lives are with all their money and making us envious of them and fill us with this idea that we should strive to live like them and make getting rich and having nice things our main goal in life. But that is where faith comes into play.
A lot of famous and rich are not a ways just happy. Many of them feel like they do not have time for religion or are too good for it so they just abandon the church to do what they want. That is when they begin to fall under temptation and make the wrong choices and they suddenly begin to feel alone. So that shows that money and power isn't everything, because it truly can not buy happiness for your life and can lead to you being used for what you have and it turns really hard to find people that you can trust. That is why it is important to stay on the right path and have your morales straight. But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that non-Catholics or non-religious people aren't happy or that Catholics are perfect and don't ever make mistakes, but being a catholic means that we accept our flaws and we accept the fact that we all make mistakes and no one is perfect and that is what helps us live a successful and joyful life. The Catholic religion shows us that we don't need all the money, power, and materialistic things that are promoted in the media to live a successful and joyful life.
Last year I had a teacher for literature who had us do an essay on the meaning of life. When I was assigned this essay, I thought it was the most cliche thing ever and I was expecting everyone in that classroom was going to have the same exact thing but once it came to actually writing the essay, I was just completely lost and I did not know what to say. So I began to research and once again I saw the two different perspectives. But my teacher began to talk to me about people that are rich but hate what they do but continue to work just for the money, and then she told me about people who are poor but are happy and actually enjoy Their lives even when they do not have everything. they want or need. I found this really interesting and now it's proving My point That you don't not need to be rich and have all the things you to feel successful and be happy.
So I ask again, what does it mean to live a successful and joyful life? Well I believe that living a successful life is to be happy with your self and what you do. Be proud of what you've accomplished, it doesn't matter if you are a CEO of this big business or just the dude at a burger shack flipping burgers, as long as you feel happy with yourself and with what you've done, you have lived a successful and joyful life because everyone from rich to poor, from highly religious to atheists, will struggle in life and have obstacles in your way but even through all of that, you should be proud of what you've overcome and all the things you've accomplished to be where you are at in your life today.
What does it mean to live a successful and joyful life? What are the requirements to get there and what do you need to do in order to feel happy and successful? Well the answer really depends on the different perspectives you look at this question from. Throughout my years here at St. John Eudes the one specific phrase I heard all the time was to look at things from the "Catholic Christian point of view". If you were to ask someone in the catholic faith about what it means to live a joyful and successful life, you would probably get something along the lines of, as long as you feel like you are rich in spirit or have your morales straight and want to spend your life serving God and you are happy with whatever you are doing then you are already living a successful and joyful life. But let's say we ask someone outside of faith from our own society, what do you think they will say? Well if you just sit there watching tv or on social media and just really think about what you are seeing, you will probably recognize the real things they are saying like, you need to live a materialistic life that revolves around money, women, cars, clothes and what ever helps you feed your greed.
Well about a couple weeks ago, I was watching the Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight on pay per view and you can see a huge difference between the morales of the two fighters. As a lot of us know, Manny Pacquiao is a very religious man and he is very down to earth and has his morales straight, but when you look at Mayweather it is a whole different story. He is all about the money, women, cars and pretty much all the materialistic things in the world. As I watched I remembered him saying something like "money isn't everything, it's the only thing." And I just sat their thinking like "wow this is all over tv, there is millions of people watching him including children that look up to him and that is the message he's gonna give out to them like c'mon man there's nothing better you can say?" So that's when I realized that there are different perspectives and we are surrounded with many bad role models that stand for the wrong things but yet they are still being promoted and making lots of money for just showing how great their lives are with all their money and making us envious of them and fill us with this idea that we should strive to live like them and make getting rich and having nice things our main goal in life. But that is where faith comes into play.
A lot of famous and rich are not a ways just happy. Many of them feel like they do not have time for religion or are too good for it so they just abandon the church to do what they want. That is when they begin to fall under temptation and make the wrong choices and they suddenly begin to feel alone. So that shows that money and power isn't everything, because it truly can not buy happiness for your life and can lead to you being used for what you have and it turns really hard to find people that you can trust. That is why it is important to stay on the right path and have your morales straight. But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that non-Catholics or non-religious people aren't happy or that Catholics are perfect and don't ever make mistakes, but being a catholic means that we accept our flaws and we accept the fact that we all make mistakes and no one is perfect and that is what helps us live a successful and joyful life. The Catholic religion shows us that we don't need all the money, power, and materialistic things that are promoted in the media to live a successful and joyful life.
Last year I had a teacher for literature who had us do an essay on the meaning of life. When I was assigned this essay, I thought it was the most cliche thing ever and I was expecting everyone in that classroom was going to have the same exact thing but once it came to actually writing the essay, I was just completely lost and I did not know what to say. So I began to research and once again I saw the two different perspectives. But my teacher began to talk to me about people that are rich but hate what they do but continue to work just for the money, and then she told me about people who are poor but are happy and actually enjoy Their lives even when they do not have everything. they want or need. I found this really interesting and now it's proving My point That you don't not need to be rich and have all the things you to feel successful and be happy.
So I ask again, what does it mean to live a successful and joyful life? Well I believe that living a successful life is to be happy with your self and what you do. Be proud of what you've accomplished, it doesn't matter if you are a CEO of this big business or just the dude at a burger shack flipping burgers, as long as you feel happy with yourself and with what you've done, you have lived a successful and joyful life because everyone from rich to poor, from highly religious to atheists, will struggle in life and have obstacles in your way but even through all of that, you should be proud of what you've overcome and all the things you've accomplished to be where you are at in your life today.