Good morning/afternoon class. I'm pleased to talk with you about a topic that is near and dear in everyone's existence: The Meaning of Life.
Is human life just a dream, from which we never really awake, as some great thinkers claim? Are we submerged by our feelings, by our loves and hates, by our ideas of good, bad, beautiful, and awful? Are we incapable of knowing beyond those ideas and feelings? Is the reality we know a reality imposed to us by nature? Are the reality and the meaning of life a creation of men, such as music, or love or colors?When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity that lies before and after it, when I consider the little space I fill and I see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am unaware, I rest frightened, and astonished, for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there.
The Meaning of Life (Tankard album)
Hamlet with Yorick's skull
The Meaning of Life (TV series)Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me?Love gives meaning to our lives - as do friendship, or art or faith in God. These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence. But there is the other side. There is the cruelty of life, the pain, the evil, not to talk of death.
When the Tsimtsum sank, not only was Pi shoved face to face with the unknown, but he also lost his family, the core of his human context. Instead, he had to try to survive. Life of Pi is a story about struggling to survive through seemingly insurmountable odds. Throughout the novel, characters are seeking the meaning of life. Pi abandons his lifelong vegetarianism...
Change the conclusion
this seems to be a pretty engaging speech.
you could make the audience more attentive and engaged by ending on a high.
e.g. We are all individuals, but together, we can make a difference.
something like that.
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