NAME: Angelica P.

Ordonia
BSCE – 1D
LEARNING JOURNAL
1. On your learning journal, write a reflection paper on what are your deepest questions in
life?
There are many things in this world that are uncertain. That is why people tend to ask a lot of
questions and then seek answers. Just like Socrates, to seek wisdom is primarily to acknowledge
that we do not possess the answers to difficult questions. And in order to search for answers, we
need to reflect, to take time to introspect, to carefully examine our beliefs and other’s opinion,
while at the same time, being open to the views presented to us and the views we assume
ourselves hold told to be true.
Back in my younger teenage years, I was lost and did not know my purpose in life. I was
seriously depressed and a suicidal person due to the fact that I have a broken family, my grades
were a failure, and didn’t know what it really means to be living. This existential
phenomenology of mine has taught me to see my world in a much more profound way. And I
realized that human thoughts are dangerous. Just few months ago, I started having the desire to
be alone just for a while. I have this urge to be isolated from anyone, wherein I have no one to
worry about but just myself. As a result, these boundary situations lead me into a deeper
reflection on my own self being. There were times when I am alone at home and even when I am
at the park, thoughts like who am I would suddenly cloud my mind and my eyes would
unconsciously burst into tears. Whenever bad things happen to me, I would ask myself why is
the world so unfair that I would experience this kind of suffering when others are busy being
living their own happy life; why do I have to live when in the end, I would still die; and why do I
have to fear losing things which I do not have yet. These reflections are no longer in the
peripheral level of existence but a greater horizon of human realities according to Karl Jaspers.
This means that I am not the only one questioning but at the same time, I am the question myself.
There is this introspection in me that I am not just who I am on the outside but there is much
more about who I am inside and that there is more to who I really am than what I appear to be.
At the end of the day, despite the challenging nature of life, philosophizing is one of the few
things that truly matters in living. Different kind of questions and experiences serves as an
opportunity for me to inquire or to search for truth and wisdom. As a human being, I have
difficult important questions yet the answers I gain have implications in my own choices and
actions. It challenges me to be the best person I can be, enhancing the best of my abilities as I
make sense of a world with multifaceted views. And lastly, it enriches my life by enhancing my
understanding of humanity and making me a better human being.