As a human being, you possess the invaluable gift called Imagination. It is this wonderful
faculty which allows you to enter worlds that you have never been to, to picture an event before
it actually happens, to construct things in your mind combining any number of images. Most
important, however, it enables you to project yourself into the future and to determine what kind
of a tomorrow you want for yourself.
Travel ten or twenty years into the future and see yourself becoming the person you want
to be. You have to live in the Forward. Block the whole world out. Spare half an hour, go into a
dark room and press the Tab Key. The problem with us is that we live too much in the present and
think too much about the past. As a result, we give no opportunity for the imagination to flourish,
to develop and to help us realize our full potential
Life is full of obstacles and barriers that need to be overcome if one is to reach the pinnacles of
success. Imagination plays a key role in giving us clues as to how to overcome them. Imagination
takes us beyond pain, beyond suffering, even beyond death. Scan the future. Backspace the
past. Shift your viewpoint to the next level. Press the Control Key to know who you are and what
you want to be. Do all this and you will enjoy a better quality of life
And if you fall fall Forward. Don't give up. Fall Forward
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To wonder too openly, or intensely, about the meaning of life sounds like a peculiar, ill-fated and unintentionally comedic pastime. It isn’t anything an ordinary mortal should be doing – or would get very far by doing. A select few might be equipped to take on the task and discover the answer in their own lives, but such ambition isn’t for most of us. Meaningful lives are for extraordinary people: great saints, artists, scholars, scientists, doctors, activists, explorers, national leaders…. If ever we did discover the meaning, it would – we suspect – in any case be incomprehensible, perhaps written in Latin or in computer code. It wouldn’t be anything that could orient or illuminate our activities. Without always acknowledging it, we are – in the background – operating with a remarkably ungenerous perspective on the meaning of life.
Yet, in truth, the subject is for everyone; it is for all of us to wonder about, and define, a meaningful existence. There need be nothing forbidding about the issue. A meaningful life can be simple in structure, personal, usable, attractive and familiar. This is a guidebook to it.
A meaningful life is close to, but at points importantly different from, a happy life. Here are some of its ingredients:
– A meaningful life draws upon, and exercises, a range of our higher capacities, for example, those bound up with tenderness, care, connection, self-understanding, sympathy, intelligence and creativity.
– A meaningful life aims not so much at day-to-day contentment as fulfilment. We may be leading a meaningful life and yet, really rather often, be in a bad mood (just as we may be having frequent surface fun while living, for the most part, meaninglessly).
– A meaningful life is bound up with the long-term. Projects, relationships, interests and commitments will build up cumulatively. Meaningful activities leave something behind, even when the emotions that once propelled us into them have passed.
– Meaningful activities aren’t necessarily those we do most often. They are those we most highly value and will, from the perspective of our deaths, regret most deeply.
– The question of what makes life meaningful has to be answered personally (even if our conclusions are marked by no particular idiosyncrasy). Others cannot be relied upon to determine what will be meaningful to us. What we call ‘crises of meaning’ are generally moments when someone else’s – perhaps very well intentioned – interpretation of what might be meaningful to us runs up against a growing realisation of our divergent tastes and interests.
– We have to work out, by a process of experience and introspection, what counts as meaningful in our eyes. Whereas pleasure manifests itself immediately, our taste in meaning may be more elusive. We can be relatively far into our lives before we securely identify what lends them their meaning.
This book considers a range of options for where meaning might lie for us. It is anchored around a discussion of eight centrally meaningful activities: love, family, work, friendship, culture, politics, nature and philosophy. Most are well-known; the point isn’t to identify entirely new sources of meaning so much as to try to evoke and explain some familiar choices. The options should provide orientation, enabling us to find our own preferences or – when we dissent – to design alternatives.
Along the way, we hope to underscore that our lives are more meaningful – and certainly more capable of meaning – than we might initially have supposed. Increasing the amount of meaning in our lives doesn’t have to involve any radical outward moves. Our lives almost certainly already have some hugely meaningful sides to them, but we may well not be correctly valuing, understanding or appreciating these.
It is time to turn the pursuit of a meaningful life from a comedically-complex impossibility to something we can all comprehend, aim for and succeed at.
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As a human being, you possess the invaluable gift called imagination. It is this
wonderful faculty which allows you to enter worlds that you have never been to, to
picture and even before it actually happens, to construct things in your mind
combining any number of images. Most important, however, it enables you to
project yourself into the future and to determine what kind of a tomorrow you want
for yourself. Travel ten or twenty years into the future and see yourself becoming the
person you want to be. You have to live in the Forward. Block the whole world out.
Spare half an hour, go into a dark room and press the Tab Key. The problem with us
is that we live too much in the present and think too much about the past. As a
result, we give no opportunity for the imagination to flourish, to develop and to help
us realize our full potential. Life is full of obstacles and barriers that need to be
overcome if one is to reach the pinnacles of success. Imaginations plays a Key role in
giving us clues as to how to overcome them. Imagination takes us beyond pain,
beyond suffering, even beyond death. Scan the future. Backspace the past. Shift your
viewpoint in a next level. Press the Control Key to know who you are and what you
want to be. Do all this and you will enjoy a better quality life. And if you fall, Forward.
Don’t give up. Fall Forward
A-2 Complete the following: (2)
Imagination helps us to.
1) ______________
2) ______________
3) ______________
4) ______________
A-3 Find words from the passage that are related to computer. (2)
A-4 Do as directed:
1. Imagination plays a key role in giving us new roles.[Rewrite as subordinator ‘that’.]
2. Scan the future. [Rewrite using ‘should’]
A-5 Personal Response: (2)
Write in brief how you would plan about your future.
Q.4 [B] Read the above given passage and write its summary. Suggest a suitable
title
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