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Sem. Roger Ryan D. Alba
Introduction to Philosophy
August 2, 2016
LIFE IS COMPLETELY IMPERFECT
Every person here on earth desires to be perfect. The tendency of a person to
find perfection is to make his life simply happy. A person attains happiness through
earthly things. Hence; this is just only a temporary happiness that makes people
complete and perfect. But as time passed by, the feeling of completeness fades away
when people find new things that are more meaningful and valuable than of what they
had already possessed and thought that those old things made their lives perfect. The
desire of being perfect has never been attained by any person, because as days goes
on there is there always changes. They would say, “The only constant thing here on
earth is change.” This is an affirming statement that perfection can never exist on earth.
But, the world supplies things that make person happy. This is the cause why people
never stop seeking for the happiness that they thought could make them perfect.
A person is an insatiable being. He always seeks for things that are ordinarily a
material thing that sometimes a need or a want. This is the nature of men nowadays;
people find perfection if they possessed things that they like most, but then if these
things simply fade away, the thought of perfection also fades away. Man always sees
happiness on what are trending and of season, for him, his situation is perfect in the
reason that he attains what he wanted. But then he will realize someday that those
things that are of season now will fade away. Then, there is the time he would say that
he never attained the perfection he wanted. As an example, Sem. Lemuel would say
and I quote, if a person has an iPhone6, and this gadget is the trending gadget today he
