Reflective Essay On Society

When people sit down and reflect on their lives, they look at the things that they’ve achieve and the things that they wanted to achieve, but didn’t get to. Most of the times when people sit down and reflect on their lives they consider themselves to be successful or to be a failure; there really isn’t any in between. There are a lot of things that people take into consideration when they analyze their lives and how they’ve succeeded at doing the things they truly wanted to. One of the most important things that I think most people take into consideration when analyzing their lives is whether or not they were successful in the workforce, growing up in the type of society that we have and have had, we are taught that the things you have matter.

We’ve lost touch in what’s important in life, instead we focus on the things that we want to own, rather that the things that we can’t own, but are blessed to have. We spend our lives working towards things that don’t truly matter in the end; wasting our time on things that shouldn’t be worked towards. Some people work their entire lives focusing on the things that don’t matter, allowing their lives to go to waste. The amount of time that is spent getting towards those useless things could have been and can be spent working towards things that truly matter. For example, some of the most important things in our lives is our family, friends, and how we live our lives. There are some of us who go through life working towards stupid things, for them it’s hard to look back and call themselves successful. Those people who spend their lives working towards things that truly don’t matter could very easily relate to a character by the name of Ivan Ilyich. If you are not familiar with the story behind this man allow me to bring you up to speed, Ilyich was a very successful judge, one day he slipped and fell on his side while trying to remodel his