The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living?

Honestly, I don’t think there is anyone living an “unexamined” life.

Of course I can’t speak for every single person, but really, who doesn’t wonder why they’re living, and who doesn’t spend time thinking about the future or any decision they have to make?

We can say that someone living a repetitive life—waking up, going to work/school, returning home—has an unexamined life. We can easily judge and say bums hanging on the street or not contributing to society don’t question life either. We can even say, people in control who abuse their power by exploiting others or taking lives, don’t think twice about the people they are affecting. But we are only looking from the outside. I am not making an excuse for anyone’s actions, I’m just saying no one can assume that these people never stop to wonder what they are really doing with their lives.

Anyways, who’s in the position to judge people and determine if their lives are worth living? How can anyone do that when we are all looking to find our purpose in the world and our significance to humanity? What really should be of importance is not how people think of life (or the things and factors in it), but how they approach and respond to the problems they examine.

To me, examining life is to question life itself, yourself, others, and problems in the world. Anyone can do that, and again, I think generally everybody does. However, not everyone makes changes based up their questionings, and I think that is what should be considered when deciding if a life is “worth living”.