Thursday 13 February 2020

What is more valuable to you: living a long life, or a fulfilling one? Do you think you can act upon this, and if so how?

12 comments:

  1. Hello everyone,

    First, I clearly think that it is better to live a fulfilling life than a long life because a life can be long but empty and boring. Whereas if we find our life fulfilling, it is because it is filled with what we love, that we are happy. The blossoming is happiness, even if it is sometimes short, for me it is better than full of long moments because the memories caused by the blossoming of life remain in our minds.
    Secondly, I think I act in favor of a fulfilled life, I am even sure. Nothing guarantees me that I would have a long life, nor that I would have a fulfilled life, but at the moment of today my motivation is in the desire to realize my dreams which will lead me I hope, to a fulfilled life.

    Thank you for reading.

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  2. hello,
    I obviously think that living a fulfilling life is more important than living a long one. However to be able to live a fulfilling life you have to have the time to do everything you want to. You have to get to a certain age where you were able to get your dream job, get married, have children, travel, discover new and exiting things! So to me, living a fulfilling life is living a life where you did everything you've ever wanted so that on your death bed you can look back on your life (however long it was) and say you have no regrets! So if you want to have a life with no regrets you have to forget about people's opinions and do what you love. So have that extra slice of pizza, tell your crush you like them because for all we know it could all be over tomorrow.
    Hannah SWAN [TS5]

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  3. The most important thing for me is to live a fulfilling life. Indeed, what is the use of living a long time if one is not happy? I think life is short and it can stop at any time. That’s why you have to enjoy it and live fully without quarrel. In addition, I think we can act accordingly to have a fulfilling life. First of all by having a social life, going out with our friends, having a stable and pleasant job and discovering the world. All of this will have an impact on our future life.
    DUCROQUET Margaux
    TS4

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  4. Hello,
    On the first hand, you have more experience of living a longer life rather than living a shorter one. Indeed, happiness and sadness are feelings that we need to go through it to improve. Also, a fulfilled life is hard to define because life always makes you progress anyway.
    On the other hand, life doesn’t have any sense when you are about 85 years old and when days are resumed to have diseases, to have pain or to be alone because your children now adults construct their new life.
    To conclude, I think it doesn’t have the interest to live longer if your last years are painful. Thinking about this motivate me to work and achieve my goals and dreams.
    Goodbye.
    Marie Espinosa TES2

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    1. Sorry I made some mistakes:
      - On the one hand
      - through
      - when your days are full of treatments
      - for diseases
      -build their new lives
      - I think it
      - doesn't make sense living longer
      - motivates
      Marie Espinosa TES2

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  5. Hello,
    in my opinion, living at your fullest is more interesting than living a long life because life's purpose is to enjoy even if the trip is short. If you die tomorrow you will have experienced way more feelings than if you decided to choose the first option. So, personally, i think i can act upon this statement and i think i am already pretty close of the second option because if you decide to just let it go and do what you feel will bring you joy, life can get easier and simpler, or at least feel easier and life is all about the feeling. Even if it's really simple things like wearing that bold outfit, going for a swim in winter, it will, in general, make you feel better and if not, mistakes are a big part of your life and you need to learn from them and move on.
    This subject reminds me of an acronim « yolo » which means « You Only live Once » and it is often used by youngsters or teenagers. I think that this acronym links pretty well with the subject as it signify « live your life at it's fullest » and it quite have become my motto.
    Thank you and keep « yolo » in mind ».

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  6. Hello everyone,

    Personally I would prefer living a shorter but more fulfilling life than a long and boring one. I want to travel and see new things, meet new people, make new friends, that is what i mean by leading a fulfilling life. Being able to enjoy life properly is my goal. There is a quote which says " Happiness is a way of travel and not a destination", and i totally agree with it. Our goal can't be happiness because that would mean that we are spending our time being unhappy. Of course everyone goes threw some difficult moments, but it is important to remember that happiness is the key to a fulfilling life. Ideally i would chose to live a long and fulfilling life, because life is already quite short, so living an even shorter life doesn't seem very appealing to me. Furthermore I think that one should take risks in life, if we don't we will just regret it. Taking risks such as being spontaneous, and honest. Being honest is taking a risk, because we are opening ourselves up to someone, but it's important to be honest with people.

    Thank you for reading.
    FLANNAGAN Olivia
    TS4

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  7. To my mind life is very rare and has to be lived as we want it to be. We have to enjoy every moment because we won’t do it again. The most important thing is to fill our lives with beautiful memories, happiness and encounters. Everyone has the choice to do what he wants his future to be. Even if we don’t know what will happen later, we can still stay positive and nice. If you like to travel, go around the world and discover new cultures, different people, races and landscapes. I guess we are all on Earth to accomplish something that will make the world better. The example of well-known person shows that they acted in the way to develop something new or change things. For instance, Ruby Bridges was the first black girl who went to a school for white students in 1960. At the time, in the US, Blacks were victims of segregation. She fought her whole life for her rights as an American citizen and became a symbol of racial integration. She has a fulfilling life even if she has been hurt because of her color more than once. That’s why, in my opinion, we are all able to be the best version of ourselves. Even if we live difficult things sometimes destiny is our hands and we can act to be better every single day. Life is sometimes hard but if we keep smiling we won’t always see the dark part of things. To have a fulfilling life we can have goals that we will try to reach.

    Mathilde Haÿ 104

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  8. Hello,

    Obviously I think it is more important to live a fulfilling life than a long one, because living a long life isn't good or bad in and of itself : a long life can be a burden if it is boring or full of pain. And I would like to point out that there is little one can do in order to live a long life. You can, of course, have a healthy life style, but it is no guarantee that you will live a long life, as accidents can happen to anyone at any time, when you don't expect them.
    But one can act, so as to live a fulfilling life. In fact, it is up to each of us to do that, and anyone, even poor or sick, can achieve that if one behaves properly and acts morally. I truly believe that people who lead a good life and are nice to others are rewarded, because they will be friends with people who are like them and will have a good self image.
    Last but not least, I think that we should feel like living a long life, but also be aware that life is always short and one has to make the most out of it and not waste one's time !

    Octave MOULARD TL1

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  9. Hello,
    for me a fulfilling life is better.
    As they say, it’s better quality than quantity, so having a long life but sad and boring is useless. While having a fulfilling life, whether short or not, is the goal of a life.
    In my opinion we can act on that partially, because on the one hand there is destiny and on the other hand it is up to us to do all that is in our possible to succeed our projects and all that we want in our life to have a wonderful life. For it is not by doing nothing, with our arms folded to wait for a miracle, that our life will become extraordinary.

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    1. I made some mistakes :
      - a goal in life
      - to do all that we can to succeed in

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  10. Hello,
    I've always thought living a long but boring life is kind of useless because we never know when our life is ending so we might as well make it epic. Of course I guess you can act upon that, life is what you make it, life is literally the result of your choices, the ones you made and also the result of the mistakes you made, experiences you've been through and what you've learnt from them, if you really want your life to be great, I like to believe that you actually can make it so.

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