There is strong evidence that human beings need to feel their lives are meaningful – that they are doing something with purpose that makes a difference. It’s a natural psychological need.
If you are a student, your job is doing studies only keeping aside every other activity.
All things are important as well, money to pay for, job to earn it. But everybody except a few are not doing what they are supposed to do.
A mother is raising a child. But how many mothers are giving importance to their child only? Some are not even married. How can a single mother perform all duties? A big question?? … State, close family and many more people pay the price for things they even did not buy.
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I enjoyed this piece for several reasons. For one, it starts off with a fact about human nature – about the need for humans to engage in activities that serve some sort of monumental purpose. We want to have influence because it makes us feel valuable. As a reader, I really like to be reminded of this idea because, sometimes, one wonders about why they care so much about being productive and feel bad when they accomplish nothing for too long. You then delve into the ways that people try to take action and substantiate their relevance, such as a student actively studying to learn, or a mother striving to raise her child under the best conditions. It just comes to show that there is more to mankind than simply going through the motions: we aim to achieve and make successes along the way. This piece, overall, acts as a kind of comfort to the audience, for it demonstrates that we all are connected in this specific manner – seeking ambition and accomplishment – and that we feel that innate need to have merit, even if there are countless obstacles impeding us. Very good job!
If there’s anything that I would suggest to you to make this piece EVEN BETTER, it is to expand further on these thoughts. Although I love the way in which this piece reflects the human mindset, moving from one idea to another (that are moderately related) in a short span of time, I cannot help but feel that you could have went DEEPER. While these thoughts are very significant, you only ponder them at a superficial level. I think that you could elaborate of some of them in order to make this piece more profound and thought-provoking. For example:
When you talk about the “psychological need” for humans to do things “with purpose,” explain why – why explain do you people need to do that? Maybe you can even relate this statement to yourself.
What is the purpose of students doing studies? Why do they feel compelled to follow through with their work, even though it is tedious and (a lot of the times) boring? Even more, why do some students choose to slack on their studies?
Who are the few exceptions who are not doing what they’re supposed to do? And why are they not doing them?
How does a single mother manage to perform all these essential duties to raise a child? What kind of endeavors do you think she has to take? How did she motivate herself even when times get extremely rough?
What do you personally believe about the fact that people “pay the price for things even did not buy?” Where is the justice in that?
By going into more detail about some of these thoughts, it will reflect the human mindset more accurately, for we do have a tendency to dig ourselves deeper and deeper into a certain train of thought before we suddenly swerve in a different direction. When a topic becomes too much to bear, we emerge from the rubble and try to follow a lighter path, if you get what I mean.
Overall, this piece really was very fascinating, and I definitely think that this idea has the potential to become a series! You can run with this concept of having a few thoughts and dwelling on the subject for a while because, in actuality, that’s how we humans make sense of things and build opinions without exhausting ourselves.