Quora精选：What is the point of living an unexceptional life?

是 否 +2 论坛币

k人 参与回答

经管之家送您一份

应届毕业生专属福利!

求职就业群

赵安豆老师微信：zhaoandou666

经管之家联合CDA

送您一个全额奖学金名额~ !

立即领取

感谢您参与论坛问题回答

经管之家送您两个论坛币！

+2 论坛币

Q：What is the point of living an unexceptional life?
If it seems unlikely that any of your dreams will come true, what reason is there to muddle on? Why pay bills, go to work, keep house, obey the law, and go to all the trouble of being a stable adult if the rewards you desire seem unreachable? Some people live for the idea of kids but what sense does it make to bring a child into a world that has disillusioned one to the point where one is jaded and cynical? Isn't it a bit like going grocery shopping, paying for the items in your cart, lugging them all inside and then leaving them to rot on the counter week after week?

---

---

Answered by Eivind Kjørstad

I live an entirely unexceptional life. Listen.

I'm a pretty average-looking 39 year old guy. I've got a decent education, but nothing out of the ordinary. I've got a decent job that I enjoy doing, but it's nothing earth-shaking. I'm married to a woman who means the world to me, but who has not thus far won either the Nobel Prize or Miss Universe, nor is she, I reckon, likely to ever do either.

I've got 3 kids. They're healthy and happy children who do fairly decently in school and have several hobbies they love. They mean the world to me too, but thus far none of them have won the Nobel Prize either, nor do I have any particular reason to believe that they will.

I've got perhaps a dozen friends that I love, and a larger count of acquaintances of varying closeness. I live in a perfectly ordinary Norwegian house, and drive a 12 year old Toyota that hasn't been washed this month.

None of this is exceptional to anyone except for me.

To me; this is my life; and I happen to enjoy it very much. Actually that is an understatement; if you'd told me a couple decades ago that I'd be as happy as I am, I'd have refused point-blank to believe you.

From MY perspective, I've got everything anyone could possible want. Health. Hobbies. Friends. and Love.

I'm not exceptional in any of these things; but why would I need to be ?

The rewards I desire don't seem unreachable to me. On the contrary, I feel like being alive right now, just like this, it is reward enough. What more could I need ?

I'm going to turn off the computer now, then I'm going to find a bottle of wine for when my wife returns later; and spend the 45 minutes until then playing the guitar. I do this because it's fun, because it's challenging, because I love learning and I love music, and because I can.

That's my life. It's not an exceptional one.

But my biggest regret is that I'm unlikely to get much more than 50 additional years of it. I intend to do my very best to enjoy every single day of it though.

扫码加我 拉你入群

请注明：姓名-公司-职位

以便审核进群资格，未注明则拒绝

分享0 收藏0 回帖

关键词：Exceptional exception except Living Quora living

A warm answer.This kind of unexceptional life sounds great.

Miss Universe 我学到了这个........ 不愧学了那么多年的书， 总拿诺贝尔奖 说事！

什么是生活中 - 平常生活的意义呢？ 有启发

呵呵，很“鸡汤”的感觉

chenyi112982 发表于 2015-4-8 22:21
呵呵，很“鸡汤”的感觉

哈哈  Quora上回复和支持量较高的普遍是鸡汤文，以后尽量找经管领域的