Each of us comes into this life to study. Learn from events, meetings, even suffering. But we often refuse to see exactly what they want to convey to us, we get stuck in one lesson for a long time - and lose the years when we could spend several months on it.
If we often asked ourselves questions that make us think about life, we would probably learn much faster.
Children's philosophy
According to the writer of children's books Bernadette Russell, children should ask parents philosophical questions that will shape their worldview and help grow up. And of course, children's fairy tales and cartoons will help them formulate these questions. The mistake of many parents is that they do not decipher the meaning of the animated cartoons and fairy tales they read. What questions do fairy tales of Saltykov, Pushkin and other famous personalities make you think? Saltykov in his tales condemns the government, comically shows the intelligentsia, therefore such tales with a deeper reading can be interesting even to adults.
Philosophical questions for children
Here are some questions that make little fidgets think and which parents must answer.
1. How to treat animals?
Every living creature needs care and love, and especially our little pets. Nurturing love for lesser friends will help children learn kindness, fearless manifestation of love, care.
2. How much do the best things in life cost?
We get all the best absolutely free - love of life and people, laughter, chatting with friends, sleep, hugs. They are not bought, not because they are free, but because they are priceless.
3. What is good in life?
All life is good, no matter what troubles it presents to us! In every, even the darkest day, there is a place for sunshine - a green traffic light on the way home, ice cream bought for dessert, warm weather. Teach your children to feel this beauty of life and, of course, believe in magic.
4. Can one person change the world?
The whole world we will not change, but we can change ourselves - and then the world around us will change for us. Our small personal world will become exactly the way we want to see it, because a person receives what he radiates.
The most unusual questions
Below is a list of the most outstanding questions that make you think, but first will confuse you. Probably each of us will find his own answer to all of them.
1. Is it possible to lie to the interlocutor by keeping silent?
It all depends on how the question was posed and what exactly concerns it. Typically, silence cannot be called a lie, but there are times when it can be interpreted that way.
2. What would you choose: wealth and a wheelchair or health and poverty?
This question makes us think that, in fact, the money that we are so eager to pursue, ruining our health and pushing our moral principles, is not worth these efforts at all. After all, none of us will take money to the grave with us.
3. What advice would you give the newborn for the future?
Probably, each of us would answer this question in his own way. But, you must admit, it is the charming childlike spontaneity that adults lack so much! And perhaps one should wish for just this - always and under any circumstances to remain oneself.
4. If you could change your future, would you change it?
Changing the future leads to changes in the present. In the past, which was preserved in your memory and heart, there were necessary lessons that you successfully completed. And if you disown them, your future will no longer be reliably belted by past experience.
5. Knowing that tomorrow will be the last in your life, what actions would you decide?
How much time we spend doubting and fearing. Knowing that life is so short, we consciously sacrifice our desires, aspirations, dreams only because doubts gnaw at us. And then we regret it, because in practice, it would seem, a long life is incredibly short.
Eternal questions about life in books
How many books have been written on philosophical topics! What serious philosophical questions do these books make you think? Not every person spiritually and intellectually grows up to such books, but if you took up one of them, you can be sure that you will bring something valuable out of it. Almost all such texts convey a message to the reader that makes you think about your life and your worldview.
List of books with deep meaning
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a novel embellishing the brutality of the world without embellishment. The metamorphoses that occur with the hero, who at first himself showed unprecedented cruelty, while in prison he did not experience it on himself, raise readers' questions that should be considered - how our society works, why there is so much cruelty in it. And the motto of the book is that life must be accepted as it is. Priceless advice, isn't it?
“April Witchcraft” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about the unhappy female love that every girl once experienced. Do we need a similar life experience? Can we overcome suffering? The pain lives inside each person, like a poisonous flower, and only we decide what to do with this flower - to water it or to pluck it and throw it away.
What question does the book Happy Death by Albert Camus make you think about? Each of us once asked ourselves: why was I born into this world, is happiness waiting for me? Albert Camus is looking for answers to these questions with his hero. After all, the main meaning of life, perhaps not in achievements or pleasures, but in feeling this happiness.
Have you ever thought about how really dear to you family and friends? What important role does family play in our lives? Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” talks about people who are glad to see guests, but who are indifferent to each other.
How long have you been nibbling on your own conscience? Conscience is an individual choice of everyone, according to John Fowles, who wrote the novel "The French Lieutenant's Mistress." This book has two finals.
“We are responsible for those who tamed”
What questions did Exupery's Little Prince make those who read this work think about? The work is easily divided into many quotes filled with childish wisdom. And although this story is perceived as a fairy tale, in fact, "The Little Prince" is recommended for reading by adults. During the reading you will find many questions on a philosophical topic, the answers to which are also in the work. What is friendship really? Do we see the beauty around us? Are we able to be happy, or with growing up we lose this quality?
Conclusion
Life is complex, multifaceted, somewhat cruel. But she asks us questions that make us think. Love for her, sincere and not obscured by problems, makes us truly happy people. This should be the task of each of us - to understand that happiness does not depend on external factors, but on the internal content.