The Choice of Achilles
Clas 121
Day 2
In a context relevant to you, would you make the choice Achilles made?
Achilles had a difficult choice that he had to make when faced with living a long but simple life or a short but glorified one. I would not make the same choice that Achilles made of returning home and living a long, but ordinary life, instead of a short, but a celebrated one if he had stayed and fought. The reason for this is because I’d rather have my life mean something than being unimportant. One hasn’t lived a life if that life wasn’t meaningful. In context to choosing between a long but uneventful life and short but momentous one, it also applies to when people say that they want to live to be a hundred years old. I don’t see the point in living to be a hundred years old if all you have done is the same boring routine everyday of your life. I’d rather live to be fifty years old but have a fun and eventful life filled with adventures and discoveries than living to a hundred and just staying home all day. I believe in adding life to years rather than years to life. Furthermore, a long and average life is pointless. That life would get extremely boring doing the same exact boring routine every single day. Doing the same thing over and over again every single day would frustrate me and I would feel depressed. I would end up regretting choosing a long and boring life over a short but memorable one because it is more sensational to have lived and lost then have never lived at all. I’d rather live a life that is more unpredictable and exciting where I can experience new things even though knowing that it will have a negative effect on me. Although I know that choosing a short but glorified life will have detrimental outcome, I am willing to accept the adverse consequence if it means that my life had a meaning, knowing that I will be remembered and I will have a long life through the memories of the people than physically have a long life. This also ties into the idea of if
Day 2
In a context relevant to you, would you make the choice Achilles made?
Achilles had a difficult choice that he had to make when faced with living a long but simple life or a short but glorified one. I would not make the same choice that Achilles made of returning home and living a long, but ordinary life, instead of a short, but a celebrated one if he had stayed and fought. The reason for this is because I’d rather have my life mean something than being unimportant. One hasn’t lived a life if that life wasn’t meaningful. In context to choosing between a long but uneventful life and short but momentous one, it also applies to when people say that they want to live to be a hundred years old. I don’t see the point in living to be a hundred years old if all you have done is the same boring routine everyday of your life. I’d rather live to be fifty years old but have a fun and eventful life filled with adventures and discoveries than living to a hundred and just staying home all day. I believe in adding life to years rather than years to life. Furthermore, a long and average life is pointless. That life would get extremely boring doing the same exact boring routine every single day. Doing the same thing over and over again every single day would frustrate me and I would feel depressed. I would end up regretting choosing a long and boring life over a short but memorable one because it is more sensational to have lived and lost then have never lived at all. I’d rather live a life that is more unpredictable and exciting where I can experience new things even though knowing that it will have a negative effect on me. Although I know that choosing a short but glorified life will have detrimental outcome, I am willing to accept the adverse consequence if it means that my life had a meaning, knowing that I will be remembered and I will have a long life through the memories of the people than physically have a long life. This also ties into the idea of if