Flowers for Algernon

3. What makes an ideal human or the ideal life?



Actually, there are many aspects of ideal. Happiness, family, friends, discipline are all factors. The main topic I am going to touch on is happiness as it covers most of the other aspects. Without happiness, how are you going to live your life? Without happiness, how are you going to socialise with people? There is one story that I read before when I was young. It is one of the Mr Men stories. It is, as you may have guessed, Mr Mean. He was a very stingy person and would not even spare someone a coin when he or she needed it. He lived in sadness and had no one to talk to even though some people tried to to him. Finally, one day when he was sleeping, he had a vision that he would be going to be an old and lonely man and would die unnoticed. He was so afraid that he immediately became friendly and became one of the most popular person in town and was never called Mr Mean again. This simple story tells us that we should be kind to each other and thats makes our life more interesting and happier. If we are not happy and not socialise, then we are like Mr Mean. Freinds. If we do not have friends, even virtual ones, then we are living our lives for nothing. We cannot just have our families around us. We need to ourselves with others to know the outside world better and socialise. We might be mad if we do not interact with others. Family is also important. They give us encouragement everytime we need them as they are the closest to us. They are important when we meet failures etc. Orphans find themselves very lonely and have no one to talk to and usually remain lonely for their life. A person without discipline will find it very difficult to things as he or she does not have self-discipline to do things themselves without somebody to look after them. Hence, I think happiness, having friends, family and self-discipline is a an ideal human and can live an ideal life.