I agree with you Maarten van Doorn, now I am going to reiterate your argument in the strongest possible manner again to you so that I am on the same page as you.
You are saying that it only makes sense to go on combating if it makes sense to you and it is worth the sacrifice, also life should not be lived on the idea that any meaning could come from strife, now correct my understanding if it is wrong about what you said. As far as this goes I totally agree with you. Nobody would choose pointless suffering at least consciously on themselves, now two things emerge out of this is that if you and this argument only stands valid if you believe in the unconscious, that unconsciously that may not be the case. The second part is even though we may not choose suffering personally for ourselves we may not shy away from inflicting it upon others which is a fascinating thing for me and again I haven’t thought enough about this, if you have a different point of view I would love to hear it. Now you raised an interesting point of view that life should not be lived as if any meaning can derive could come from strife but I am perplexed as to that fact we recognize anything as strife shows that we are able to get meaning from it otherwise how else would we interpret it, but if that is the case is strife an essential part of life?
The second part you asked was why we want to reach something?
Well, who are you asking as? As a biologist you may give a different answer saying that human beings are goal oriented creatures, as a psychologist you may say goals give meaning to your life, a philosopher like Aristotle would say, not that he said this but that any object that moves then in its nature has the characteristics of movement and hence should move (hope this made sense). The answer changes as the people being asked changes and also from what value we derive from it.
And about the Tedtalk I will watch it and be better able to comment on it. Of course not all perfectionism is driven by society what she talks about is social driven perfectionism what about internal driven perfectionism?
As for you question
“Do you feel that you are enough?
The first question would be well I am enough as a human being but not enough in potential, I think you would agree that if I believe that I am enough then there is no motivation in me left to move forward or improve myself. Have a look at this reply there are many places where I am not sure what the answer is that means there is something clearly lacking and I can definitely know the answer and fill the lacking by getting educated on the subject there is certainly room for that, if there is room then I am certainly not enough of what I can be.
And the second question well I would speak for myself as I have always had a very intrinsic view I would firstly go for subduing internalized problems, after all I can only do something about the world if I am myself in order. Which clearly is a hard enough claim to make for anyone that their house is in order. As far as the world is concerned it is not that I don’t have the desire to rectify a lack but rather it becomes a secondary issue to me for the moment, of course you can differ and say that the world sets the environment for you to act on and if that is messed up no matter how your house looks you will always suffer and that is a good enough claim. But there are a lot of fixing I can do internally and important things which one would say require immediate attention.
