Something I've noticed throughout my life is the many excuses that we humans make in order to justify our bad decisions. We always say, "Well, I'm just human" and "Everyone makes mistakes, no one's perfect" and although these statements are true, they should not be excuses. If we know what is right and what should be done, we should do them. We live our lives hoping that we do the right thing and we become good people, but we are unable to go through the motions. Sure, no one is perfect, but we must try to live up to our ultimate goal. But then again, what is our ultimate goal? Is it to have fun and live it up? Or is it to be a good person and do the best that we can on this earth?
Socrates believed that we must "live well" and not to just live. What exactly did he mean by "live well"? From my readings I see that he meant to live according to the right principles. If we know the right thing to do, but we refuse to fight our urges, in my opinion, we are not living well. I am not saying that we need to be perfect because our mistakes help us grow, but if we can overcome our desire to "just live," we should take that and run with it.
I know that as Christians this task is a little harder because we are in a society full of temptations, and as humans we are all prone to fail at some points in our lives but we must overcome. When there is a party on Friday that everyone is going to, we have to try to resist. Yes, it's hard but those little sacrifices that we make to do good things will help us achieve our ultimate goal. We have to make ourselves live up to high standards so that we can all "live well." Those typical excuses are easy to make when a crowd of people are following along, trust me, I know. If we are going to go against what we believe, than we should at least be able to accept the consequences, instead of making those excuses. Justifying the situation does not make the core problem go away, it just covers it up. Will we ever be able to live up to what we believe in??
If we can establish our ultimate goal in life, and we are truly trying to be better, than we should have no more excuses, or at least try to not have any more excuses lol. My goal in life is not to live fancy and buy nice things, it is to be the best I can be. Sure, I make mistakes and I have plenty of excuses up my sleeve but a part of growth is being able to put those excuses aside and transform them into elements that will bring you closer to your ultimate goal. Now, deciding what your ultimate goal is seems to be the hard part. But in time, everything will fall into place. Or will it?
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