How to love your life
Article • 442 Words • Philosophy, Living Better, 2026 • 05/24/2026
A simple argument on how to love your life.
There are 477 words in this article, and it will probably take you less than 3 minutes to read it.
This article was published 2026-05-24 00:00:00 -0400, which makes this post and me old when I published it.
This is not meant to be a logical argument per se. I don’t want this to be evaluated on its logical merits, or its originality, I want it to be judged by its usefulness to you, reader. Really what I want you to take from this is to follow my thread of thinking. In it, I think I stumble upon/rediscover from first principles lots of well-worn advice. However, I think it is valuable to see the line of thinking to those cliches to realize some of the fundemental truths that they do expose.
I think the main takeaway should be that loving your life is not easy, but it is simple.
- To love your life is to love your time.
- What is life and experience if not the experience of time?
- How do we experience time? Through space.
- We are physical beings, not pure thought, we have bodies.
- To love your life is to love the time spent in your space.
- What takes up your space?
- Living beings and things!
- Your family, friends, lovers, co-workers, apartment, city, neighbors, workplace, restaurants, etc.
- What takes up your space?
- To love your life is to love the time spent with the people and things around us.
- But what do you do with the people and things you love?
- You do things that you love and the people around you love!
- But what do you do with the people and things you love?
- To love your life is to spend time with or doings things that you and the people around you love.
It sounds so simple right? Well it is, but of course there are many obstacles in the way.
What if I don’t know what I love or what to love?
- You should love what is Good.
- What is Good? Philosophy has the answers (kinda) for that!
- This the a central question of the last 2000+ years of philosophy.
- What is Good? Philosophy has the answers (kinda) for that!
- If it isn’t Good but its not Bad, then go with what makes you feel good.
- If you really like murdering people, I would say that’s Bad, so I wouldn’t want you to feel good doing it. However, if you aren’t really harming anyone/anything, then I say you should pursue what makes you feel good.
- Beauty (art, etc.), games, truth/knowledge, may all be instrinsic Goods, which means that you should pursue them! Or at least think about it.
What if I am not physically close to the people that I love?
- If you can’t bring them to you, go to them.
- If you can’t do either, you will have to form a community near you.
How do this in a world is falling apart and burning?
- I truly don’t know so I leave that as an exercise to me and the reader…