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What Is Good Life? What Defines Good Life? Do We Really Understand Good Life?

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a better lifestyle with limited resources, yes, for him, he has a good life. Maybe, for someone else, it can mean more than that. Life is best affirmed by a striving for individual excellence that he identified with an idealized aristocracy. But before we begin thinking that his definition of the good life might accord well we should attend to the thread of skepticism that runs throughout all other definitions. For some, the definition may be the intriguing question of how one can achieve what so called good life.

And for this, the person strives to have all that what he may have, may need and might not need.

Still he thrives to have some.

The idea of living peacefully and see fulfilled desire of theirs is a good life for some. While, for some, the idea of helping others, and bringing happiness to others is a good life.

For some living a lavish lifestyle and spending all their fortune uselessly and aimlessly, can be a good life.

A good life is different for everybody. I think that the most important thing in life is happiness. You can have no money, have no friends or live in a place you don’t like and don’t feel comfortable at. But you can still be happy. Why? Because you may have a family to come home to, or maybe something else in your life that makes you happy. That can be happiness for some people. Money. To earn money you need a job, of course. And for almost every well paid job you need to have an education. I know a guy that skipped high school, he didn’t study at all except elementary school. But today he is rich.

A lot of money can be happiness for some people, it’s understandable. You can do almost anything you want and buy everything in a store without feeling guilty. But can money buy happiness, love, friendship and a good life? No. Even if I actually think that money can be a shortcut to happiness, but that happiness just last for the moment, not a lifetime. Another thing that is so important in having a good life is the people you surround yourself with.

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