Do you ever think about your world?

Maybe there’s a deeper meaning to this thing we call life and while it can be good to talk about some of the things that have happened this year, you don’t want to only talk about all the negative stuff.

What if, instead of spending your holidays talking about the clusterfuck that has been 2020, you spend some of that time asking yourself the questions that really put things in perspective and reignites your curiosity.

Questions on life – your life, and some of these questions are great conversation starters (or switchers if everyone around you keeps talking about the gloom and doom that was 2020).

Good what ifs…

I don’t know about you but I want to enjoy the holidays and have laughs with friends and family (as you should).

These question would help you see your life and your beliefs, how much less serious you should take the world (and how you should be more curios), some would have you laughing and others might have you thinking o ti ya werey ni ye writer le le (Pardon my French)

Some of these questions would leave you feeling like Socrates when you ponder (or bring them up) and others would have you feeling like craze clown but none the less, these questions are fun and creative ways to shut down with the holidays coming around.

These questions are known as Existential Questions

But the first question you might ask is…

What are Existential Questions?

It is gotten from the word “Exist” as it relates to the nature of our existence as humans.

These are profound questions that humans have asked themselves as long as we’ve been able to think and put reasonable thoughts together

Religions leaders, philosophers, Scientist, Monks, Buddhists, and Artists have asked these questions as a way to understand who we are as human beings and why we are here

Existential questions do not have any right answers as answers are basically subjective. They challenge us to understand the unthinkable and unknowable while entertaining new possibilities.

Not knowing the answer but searching for it anyway is what being human is all about. We are born to live and die (why though?)

Our world is one of beauty, pain, comedy, tragedy and every other experience that makes us humans.

By asking these questions of others and ourselves, we dig deeper into what being Human is.

Using Existential Questions…

Asides being a fun conversation starter or a way to think about our lives and beliefs, thinking existentially can improve your relationships with other people as it can help you

• If you want to have deeper conversations and understand other peoples belief about stuff that you both don’t have to be right about
• If your life feels more like a routine and you want to search for deeper meaning.
• If your relationship with yourself feels stagnant.
• If you feel alone or bored
• If you want to become self aware and understand yourself better

So let’s dive in

10 Existential Questions to Ask Yourself

• Are your successes your own, or are they the culmination of what others have given you?
• Given the chance, would you want to know how your life will end and when it will happen?
• How would knowing when you are going to die affect how you live your life?
• Are there any upsetting truths that you have been ignoring?
• If you could become immortal, without the option to end your own life, would you?
• If you focused solely on what was going well in your life, rather than what was going wrong, would things get better or worse?
• Is it more important to advocate for yourself, to advocate for your family, for your community, or the world at large?
• Are the standards to which you judge others the same standards you use to judge yourself? Should they be the same? How would you justify them being different?
• What activities make you feel the most alive and in touch with your humanity?
• After you die, how do you want to be remembered? For how long do you want to be remembered?

10 Existential Crisis Questions on 2020

• What events have caused me to feel uneasy this year in my life?
• Can I locate what in my life is causing my crisis? Can those things be changed?
• Is there someone in my life that I can talk to about this?
• Is personal reflection and deeper thinking a bad thing? Can this period of reflection bring me to a more positive place?
• Is this crisis the result of an ongoing event or extended boredom?
• What is an activity I have done that has made me feel the most alive? Can I repeat that activity now or soon?
• How can I change my perspective?
• How can I make my existential crisis a positive experience?
• Why is this moment occurring now?
• What would I tell my younger self if I were experiencing this years ago?

10 + jara Funny Existential Questions

• If you expect the unexpected, does that make the unexpected expected?
• Is a hotdog a sandwich?
• If I hit you with a dictionary, is that verbal abuse or physical assault?
• They say exercising for an hour a day adds an extra hour to your life, but are you really adding anything if you spent that extra hour exercising? – think about it
• If it’s bad to be at the right place at the wrong time, is it good to be in the wrong place at the right time?
• If you draw a white circle on a white piece of paper, does the circle exist?
• If quitters can’t win and winners never quit, why would we tell someone to quit while they’re ahead?
• Before we had sliced bread, what did we consider the first best thing?
• If animals have consciousness, do birds consciously choose who to poop on?
• Is it possible to be standing backward on a staircase?
• If everyone thinks life isn’t fair, is it fair to say that life is in fact… fair?
• If you purposely fail, did you succeed?
• Who let the dogs out? Who? Who, who, who?

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