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Isabel Garcia
Mr. Kliner
TOK 11

Existentialism

Is everything we believe on is real, i mean, existentialism is like doubting everything of society, not doubting but ignoring, declining everything that we know. Since we are small, we follow direction and we always have someone to look forward, a role model but existentialism its the opposite of that, it tells you to look for your self notfor other because they don't matter, only you because we are selfish being, to become the hero. There is no limit or boundary to achieve it, there may be obstacles but that is what makes you the hero because you learn it yourself, you shape your own life. You are the writer and main character of your story.
This Philosophy touches in the beliefs, the beliefs of people, of the many beliefs thatexist in this world. I mean, i personally didn't know that something like Existentialism was a believe. I knew this type of believe existed (atheist) but the way it is being put together, it basically means every man for himself except from Theistic and Nihilism because they have to look at someone, like I said before, a role model to follow because we, humans being, need guidance, we are lost inthis world and we don't know why we are here, thats why so much stress. Thats why we need something to look forward, like a country without a leader it would be a disaster because it doesn't know how to control it self at the beginning but eventually it will learn but not everybody is that way. If we apply this in a real life situation it would be like this: compare the life of two kids, one isrich and one is poor. The rich kids has all the things he wants because he from part of the high class but the poor kid doesn't so he has to work for it. The rich kid will always have his parents to look forward because they will look after him by giving him education and money while the poor kid has but they don't give enough so he has to do it himself. When they grow up the rich kid will be byhimself because after his parents are dead there will be no one to look after him, he needs guidance, he needs help because he never did it himself, difference from the poor kid that did everything by himself, learning that he can do it by himself, his capability, there were situations that he had to face and sacrifice but that was what made him what he is now, a successful man that can do everythingby himself without help, a supermen. He may not be a hero for everybody he is for himself and thats what matters because he survived. Its not about what he is made of but about the circumstances he goes through that makes him this way. This may not be a concrete example but i look at it in this way because not everybody belives in Existentialism, some people belive in god, waiting for him to dothe change while the ones that believe in existentialism make the change in their life. It is not posible to change everybodys life because we are not the same, none of us are, which makes it dificult to please that person and thats why each person should make their own change if they want it to happen, every man for himself. We become our own role model.
If we look at it in another way, the richboy and the poor boy when the are small the are theistic because they believe in their parents and they follow them because what else is there to do when u are a small baby, we need a base to start with. Afterwards, they become Nihilism because they don't depend as much but the rich bot stays as a mere men while the poor boy becomes a supermen, then an absurdist because he know reality, he knowswhat lies away in the distance, what is coming, he just has to fight with it.

It inspired people to do something with their lives. It somehow gives hope because it says that life has no meaning and if you think about it it is true but then it says that you should choose a distraction from that though and it is either believe in someone or yourself and when you think of yourself it encourages...