What Makes Life Worth Living? Take a Moment to Ask
Category: WORLDPOST
Various forces bigger than ourselves -- perhaps most of all marketing and pop culture - shape our goals without us realizing it, guiding our lives for us, often in directions that, were we to think about it, we would want to resist. Life becomes, for instance, a series of consumer decisions based on our preferences for this or that experience, or a mad race for some vaguely-defined "success."
By Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Contributors, 2014-08-25