Tow: What does it mean to be fulfilled

I have had a really long week. In fact, I have been so tired this week that at times I kind of forgot my name. While I guess I enjoy working a lot, sometimes you can lose perspective of what's really important.

My mom always said, as long as you have your health you'll be fine. But now I think more about my metal and spiritual health, not just physical. Its good to be fit, but it is better to be balanced.

I know I have a lot of work until I am there but I guess it is the journey towards fulfillment, not the destination. We all hope to one day surrounding by the things and people we love, but part of being an adult in a world like this is to learn to love the things you are surrounded with. Even if for you, you would never love those things on your own.

Aristotle was a great philosopher of happiness and fulfillment, but his treatsies were about social fulfillment, not about the good (disagree with me if you want!). True fulfillment is more kantian than that...the intention is just as dal as the action.

A happy man is a just man. But happiness is not the same as being fulfilled. Sometimes the things that mean the most to us are the things that make us the least happy. But we have the freedom, I believe to choose things that make us happy and fulfilled. Whether or not we are capable of finding such things in our lives is ultimately up to us (and our peers)

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