What Is The Good Life?
To design a meaningful life, figure out what that means for you
The ancient Greeks built entire philosophies around the concept of the good life. Today, we’re not talking about some ethereal, idealistic worldview. We’re talking about setting healthy boundaries and building practical habits to help you achieve a more joyful existence.
Finding meaning is a secondary goal in a more complicated, uncertain, and cynical world. An overwhelming sense of responsibility to make ends meet makes it nearly impossible to pause and think about a more meaningful future.
It’s not always easy to know what is required of us to live well. It can be challenging to balance daily life’s pressures and the need for rest and relaxation. That’s why it’s important to have a sense of what the good life means in our modern context.
What is the good life? Is it to have fun, explore new things, and spend time with friends and family? Or is it to work hard, do what’s expected of you, and save for retirement?
“The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity,” says Friedrich…
