Pursuing happiness, pleasure, love, with the purpose of discovering the meaning of life will leads a person to be satisfied in his life once he has identified it, or so it is communicated by popular culture. It is belived that living a life meaningfully is one of the toughest tasks to accomplish. It is not complicated to add meaning into something, but it is when we want that meaning we gave to makes us happy. Even though most of the people live their lives with many meaningful aspects around them, they continue on searching for the meaning of life. People believe that they do not know complete happiness due to all the negative aspects in their families, their neighborhood, their world. By feeling limited it becomes difficult to find "something" that would make a person happy for being alive everyday. Polural culture gives an interpretation on how a person should be living his life and people interpret it as a "goal" that must be accomplished in order to live their lives meaningfully. We are being shapped in a certain way by popular culture as we "live" our lives. It is inevitable to live under culture but, people believe in freedom and search for something around them that would make them happy even if it contradicts culture. Therefore a person lives his entire life along with other people searching for the meaning of life. A great amount of time is invested into finding the answer, but in reality, Is there even a meaning that must be pursued?
My own perspective on having a good life is by being present and unreasonable and live as possibility. I believe that we, people are perfect just the way we are, so there is nothing to improve. We being perfect makes everything around us perfect so we can be present of everything we have and live happily just with whats so. My perspective is very unfamiliar in popular culture. My perspective on how to have a good life was shared to me through an education that does not associate with media. Therefore in my opinion, popular culture is the opposite of how to be in order to live happily.
There are approximately 6.8 billion people in the world with 6.8 billion different opinions and persepctives. There is no right or wrong answer to the question of how to live a good and meaningful life. It is very subjective matter and if anything does work for someone to be complete in life then so be it. I personally found a way of living powerfully in this world, but I do not inted to enforce it into anyone, however i intend to share some of what those around me, that share a similar point of view, have to say about how to have a good life to compare it to what popular culture says on the same matter.
"I dont't let anything stop me, I do everything i say i would, and If i don't I ll come back to it to restore my integrity in the world" -Kitty McMillen, Communication: access to power participant.
"Have great relationships, specially with family and speak your mind which is a great relief"
-Rula Aslanis, Communication: access to power participant.
"Honesty with themselves, be present to inauthenticities, share with those around you, go beyond any place they've gone before that brings fear and discomfort, take risks!"
-Olivia Ascencio, Self expressions and leadership program participant.
Corporate media indeed contributes greatly into whats we believe or think is right or wrong. We are taught that we need to improve so that we get accepted into society. We have representations on how a beautiful woman is supposed to look or how happy and complete we can be with money. People live their lives "trying" to become better or wealthier or skinner so that one day in the future they can achieve happiness, and if they don't they keep on "trying" until they die. What is the meaning of this?
There is nothing that can be done about the impact we have received from the culture we live under. We learn whats right and worng and act according to it.We do what we need to do to survive our lives from imaginary threats. Then we wonder why are we living the way we are living? why did my life turn out this way? why am i here?
We are living machines that automatically want to improve among society or complain about society. We live under the strong influence of our culture and we are expected to be in a certain way.We involve our senses, logic, feelings, thoughts, etc. into life situations. So, what?
and we ask philosophical questions, such as why am i here? or why is does the human mind react this way? in order to find the meaning in life. We are here because we are here and the world turned out to be this way because it turned out to be this way, there is NO answer but that in reality, and in reality there is no meaning in life, and that is a fact. So then what is right or wrong is nothing but a invention of someone's interpretation on life and we happen to follow it. We believe what we believe, but that does not mean that what we believe is reality.
My interpretation of life allows me to life happily, in other words there is no suffering in my life, from my past or my current life situation. Those around me are powerful people that live as an inspiration and do not live their lives according to popular culture.
"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
-William Shakespeare
Popular culture

Popular culture sends dominant, marginal and prohibited messages that impact society in how to be. -House keeping magazine- How to make delicious meals with Circulon Elite!- The ultimate problem solver. This magazine article was determined to make the pan look good and efficient, so that people purchase it. However, throughout the entire magazine there were constance advertisements on underwear or beauty products presented by skinny and beautiful women. It is commonly known as a fact that eating excessively is a method of gaining weight, depending on metabolism and exercise done. Corporate media is communicating that looking good is the ultimate problem solver, but also a pan used to cook, specially cake, is also the ultimate problem solver where food cook evenly!
This contradictory messages demonstrate the media is not focused on one single perspective on how to live a good and meaningful life. Popular culture is presented by many people, with different opinions and different products to SELL. Therefore, of course there will be contradictory messages given that become to a point confusing by society. How am i suppose to look, what am i supposed to eat? what am i supposed to wear? This is where dominant messages come in. People will be attracted and influenced by majority and adopt it as reality, because it is a agreed by a large amount of people. It is up to society to decide to how to live a good and meaningful life under their culture and beliefs.
-My own perspective on how to live a good life
-How my perspective relates to pursuing a meaningful life
-Other people's perspective on living a good life
-How other's perspectives relates to my own
-Relate general idea from both perspectives and connect to popular culture
-Examples to represent main idea (images, videos, lyrics, etc.)
-How other's perspectives relates to my own
-Relate general idea from both perspectives and connect to popular culture
-Examples to represent main idea (images, videos, lyrics, etc.)
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