My Worldviews

Our life is a gift that was given to us. We are the one who writes our own life
story. Others are happy and contented because they already found their purpose in life.
But most of the people live their life as if there’s no tomorrow and they do whatever they
want because they tend to feel the moment and what is good by now.
While I read the book, there were some quotes or things that struck me the most.
One of these was written by Russell: “The root of the whole thing is loneliness.” 1
Being human, each has different personality and everyone carries both external
and internal self. Whatever traits human has, we are bombarded with prolonged doubts
and continues to examine paths, it maybe a personal happiness or something that can
satisfy our interest as humans. Having a thinking mind, we are always curious of every
reality we are facing. We search, we explore and look for meanings of every
consequences. Yet, we still find things for our satisfaction. Once satisfied, we stop for
the concerned thing but we continue to lead our connection to God’s divinity.
The second one is written by Malcolm Muggeridge. He stated that “Much of the
time I spend wishing I was dead, wondering why I am doing what I have to do, putting
up my own faint struggle with the tedium of time.” 2
What you must need to do is different from what you want to do. If we think about
the concept of time in the context of our lifespan, imagining it, our time is too long and
many possibilities could happen. But if we think about the concept of living in our
everyday lives, our time is only short. My thoughts about this is that a person lives his
life by doing what he is obliged to do which is in the human nature rather than doing
what his heart speaks. The essence of life is by living it with our passion and desires.
We will be like a “dead” individual roaming around this world if we do not commit our
lives in doing what we want to do. We feel nothing because we do not get pleasure out
of it. Thus, our life becomes meaningless and struggling to live.
1
Bertrand Russell, Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (California:Waterbook
Press,2003), 4
2
Malcolm Muggeridge, Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (California:Waterbook
Press,2003), 24
 Lastly, the one that stuck me the most is “We’re truth seekers, but that isn’t the
whole story. We’re also truth twisters.” 3 As a human being, we are eager to know the
truth. But why is it we want to know the truth? What can we get from telling the truth?
For us to have a peace of mind after knowing it. Sometimes if you know the truth, it will
surprise you and if you discover it, it might put you into confusion but it is up to you how
you handle the truth. We are also truth twisters because we tend to lie so that we can’t
hurt the person’s feelings. We also lie for our own purposes because we have intentions
in our life. These intentions are for our own benefit and by inflicting lie to others, we
foreshadow the truth that must be known by them. But if we look it the other way
around, it is better to hurt a person with the truth and not by a lie. It is so because they
must have the right to know the truth, whether it hurts them or not.

3
Os Guinness, Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (California:Waterbook
Press,2003), 37