ENG 1252 DB/ Portfolio JM

Jerome Maynor
ENG 1252
3/22/21

Aspects of life
A life of significance and worth means living a life that brings meaning to oneself and to people living around them. When one lives a life of significance, they experience a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment from touching other people’s lives and bringing a positive change to them. For one to live a significant and worthy life, they have to agree to carry out their ideas courageously and without any regret. (Cassilo). By doing so, their lives become meaningful and important making them feel worth of good things that come their ways. Being significant can apply to oneself and also apply to others around them. People can be treated as significant because of their importance and the positive changes they bring to themselves and the society. Being significant does not only depend on how successful a person is, but depends on the little good things that they do every day and bring changes to everyone else.
For life to be significant, one is needed to have a reason and work to guarantee that their motivation is satisfied. Individuals need to change their perspective on life to make them see the positive side of things and be more grateful and huge. (Slope). The kind of companions likewise decides how one’s life will be. Companions that bring positive things and help somebody become better empower them have a huge life. At the point when one adjusts their life well, they can separate between their joy and their lives having importance and worth. They can pick genuineness and honor over any remaining negative things accordingly empowering them roll out certain improvements by doing little things and performing little demonstrations that matter the most to everybody. Being huge implies that one can make critical contrasts regardless of whether they do little things that are significant. Individuals can be more huge when they can communicate to every other person around them.

A significant and worthy life is determined by those people who live around us. In a community, people will notice the significance of someone else through the things that they do for everyone around them and the positive changes that they bring to the community. When one does things that will get positive reactions from people around them, they will have had significance before them. Having a significant life enables one acquire material presence in turn. It enables them have more need to do good things so that they can gain personal fulfilment and be significant to others. (Svendsen). There is presence of things that can be done to make them significant. The things that they do bring about change in their lives and in the community. There is no presence of the need to be recognized or awarded when one seeks to be significant. Living a life of significance and worth enables one be at peace with themselves and everyone around them.
To achieve a life of significance and worth, one has to care and take personal responsibility of people and environment around them. People have to change the way they think and be positive about life in general. Being positive about life enables one to manage their energy and dedicate them to doing things that will bring significance to them. People should be original and do things their own way instead of copying other significant things done by other people. Being original makes one feel proud of coming up with something on their own without copying anyone. Balancing life also makes one do significant things when they focus all their attention on doing one thing at a time. It is possible for anyone to achieve a significant life if they set their mind to it and never give up until they achieve it.

References
Cassilo, David, and Jimmy Sanderson. ““I Don’t Think It’s Worth the Risk” Media Framing of the Chris Borland Retirement in Digital and Print Media.” Communication & Sport 6.1 (2018): 86-110.
Hill, Patrick L., Grant W. Edmonds, and Sarah E. Hampson. “A purposeful lifestyle is a healthful lifestyle: Linking sense of purpose to self-rated health through multiple health behaviors.” Journal of health psychology 24.10 (2019): 1392-1400.
Svendsen, Mette N., et al. “A life worth living: Temporality, care, and personhood in the Danish welfare state.” American Ethnologist 45.1 (2018): 20-33.