Today after I finished tennis practice I started to think about life. I do not normally do this but I was bored in the car. I came up with my final conclusion that is that life is to have fun and to be happy. It may sound very kid like, but what else can our purpose be in life? Many people may disagree with me because our purpose is more a matter of opinion. I would still say that everyone in life likes to have fun and be happy and they enjoy this. There is suddenly a moment in life where nothing seems to cheer you up. After you have had a very sad or traumatic event you maybe feel like if dying was the only way out. When reading Candide I saw that Candide said: "What is the use of prolonging my miserable existence, if I must drag out my days in remorse and despair at being banished from her presence" (pg.68)? I have seen many people go through very difficult times when some horrible thing happens to them. These people do change a lot after those things, but it doesn't mean they cease to have the will to live. As I said before life is meant for us to live it and be happy and I see these horrible events that happen to people sometimes as the obstacles that God puts to us. If we manage to climb these obstacles you will feel a sense of accomplishment and feel better about yourself. I personally have never met a person that hates life so much that he wants to end with it. I did see a funny video on YouTube that introduced to us a person that did hate life. Elmo hates his life so much that all he does is complaining (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7IxliAPjAk&feature=related). That is another way to take the obstacle that you are faced with. You can try to climb it or just stay below it and complain about how difficult it is.
Pangloss is a great philosopher that his main ideas are that there is a destiny that we have to follow and that there is nothing bad that comes without any good. This can also be related to the obstacle example. If you have a bad situation you can try to look the bright side of it or just keep focused on the negative and stop living your life as you want to live it. When Candide says: "If I had not been lucky enough to spit Lady Cunègonde's brother, I should infallibly have been eaten" (pg.72), I immediately recognize the fact that something bad brought something good. If Candide had just thought of that episode where he killed Cunègonde's brother and think that that was the worst thing in life, then he couldn't have noticed that that even saved his life. A perfect life is what Candide and everyone would like, but when things go the other way you have to be able to maintain optimism. There was a place in Candide where everything was perfect like a utopia. In page seventy-seven there is a quotation that says: "It is probably the country where all goes well; for there must obviously be some such place." This is the perfect world where everything goes well and nothing is wrong. Everyone has thought of creating a utopia where everything was perfect for each one of us. The problem is that the population of the world is not only one and a utopia has to please everyone. I think that a utopia will never be found or achieved by any kind of government because of the differences of the people. I think that believing in the utopia depends in you because if you look at this world as if it was perfect then it would be a utopia for you.
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