Rilke Letter To My Father Analysis

Similarly, God is making these decisions like a father would make a decision about their child having a surgery on their tonsils. They may just be slightly bothering the child now, but the father knows that eventually it will cause a major problem with major suffering. Of course, the father doesn’t want to see his child in any pain whatsoever, but he knows if they have a surgery now to take out the tonsils that the pain of the surgery, will be less severe then that of swollen tonsils. That is the type of decisions God has to make with billions of people. He has to decide it’s best to give them a little bit of pain instead of an abundance of agony later. God is an adoring father figure not a tormentor, who is just using us for his pleasure.
Rilke’s letter to Mr. Kappus, the young cadet, served as a guide to the path of life. When I read this letter for an assignment in class, there were a lot of big changes taking place in my life. I had started to wonder about life’s biggest questions, if I would ever find love, and if I would ever receive the answers to these questions. Rilke showed me that by asking questions I will just upset people and push them away. I learned to not worry about it, instead I just put my focus into things that I could control, such as school work. I was also worried about making friends when I first came to the University of Oklahoma, but thanks to this excerpt from Rilke’s Letter number four, “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you” my shoulders seemed to lighten with the thought of this quote, and I was able to stop worrying about
The meaning of life is not an easy thing to talk about among common people. They do not like to question whether or not their life has a meaning to it, for they have the fear that the answer will be: no. Then again, another problem with that question is that everyone has a different idea about what makes life meaningful. Some people may think that having a high-paying job is meaningful, while another person may think have a family and not worry about money is meaningful. I have learned that their have been many discussions over the subject of life and meaning, but most of the time these discussions take place at one o’clock in the morning at some college bar, which people are not able to remember the conversations the next day, although that may or may not be a good thing. I now realize that the meaning of life is not an appropriate subject for everyday life, but I will continue to discuss it in hushed conversations with friends, during a secrete