Unraveling the Meaning of a Good Life

As we age, we take a journey though live that is uniquely ours. There is no one else who will have the same experiences that we do. These experiences shape our worldview and from this, we formulate our inherent values. Yet, as we start to face the reality of our own death, we tend to ask ourselves if we lived a good life. The question of a good life comes with sub questions such as we were successful, did we make meaningful relationships, and how will people remember us? The questions that asked need analyzation in order to determine if we have lived a good life and this paper will attempt to figure out what living a good life means.
First, we need to look at a person’s life as a whole. To do this, we can think of life as a journey. We are born, grow, and then die. Our life is set up like the perfect narrative story with a beginning, middle, and end. How this story unfolds is up to the individual. How does this story relate to the question of a good life? Let us first examine The Curious case of Benjamin Button.
In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, we see a symbolic

The narrator of our story needs to find a repairman for his failing pocket watch. He learns of a old watchmaker who lives as a hermit with his daughter, never leaving his workshop. Uphon reaching the watchmaker, the narrator is told that his watch is from a great sailor and the watchmakers starts to tell the story of his life as a stable boy, working with the horses and sailing around the world. The watch maker expresses his whole life to this stranger who only wants his watch repaird. Since the watch maker is more than willing to tell his life story, we can assume that he wants people to listen to him. The watchmaker wants to feel like he has had an impact in life and that there was a purpose or meaning to his journey. Since the watchmaker traveld the world, it is likely that he was never able to find a place that he