The Cracked Mirror (4/24)

Upon my voyage I sat and stared at that mirror over there. Before one can analyze their world and participate in philosophy they must first truly understand their being. Throughout the duration of our Philosophy class we have identified philosopher expressing their own individual ideas of the arche, being and becoming. From their individual analysis I have concluded that the arche in some cases could be man. While man is not in all things, humans contribute to all to all things. Humans affect the world they live in as all beings within a society, we influence the world around us and from us come life. Humans are always in a state of flux, continually coming in and out of being through life and death, and while man is merely mortal we possess immortal ideal. We give birth to being, creatures, ideas through our mind, through our thoughts.

In the world today I feel that humans are too often influenced by this media based society that they forget they give purpose to all things. Without man, without human ideas this existence would not be possible. As humans before we can analyze the world we must analyze ourselves. We must focus to improve ourselves before we seek to improve others, we must strengthen our bodies through exercise, our minds through literature and our social interactions through friendships.
But where does man start? Where do we start to correct ourselves after being so dependent on the life society has forged us? We start by looking in the mirror. That is how we have to look i- deeper and deeper within our own being. It is said in the bible that you cannot see God because God is not outside, God is within. Humans much search within themselves in order to fully understand their being, understand their purpose. To first step to understanding this purpose comes be understanding oneself in order to understand others. It is by understanding others that society as a whole can be refine.