Most Important Things in Life
Using the ideas below as well as your own, list off the ten most important things in life, putting them in order of importance.
- Money
- Love
- Ambition
- Friendship
- Self-esteem
- To feel useful
- Family
- Food
- Job
- Health
- English
- Etc.
Life is:
Brainstorming and define "life". Below are some answers .
- Is an adventure.
- Can be wonderful.
- Is a big theatre.
- Life is like an onion: when you remove all the layers, there is nothing
- left.
- Life is a path leading to nowhere.
- Life is a dream.
- Life is a journey to nowhere.
- Life is a series of unexpected and expected experiences.
- Life is a cartoon.
- Life is what you make of it.
- Life is a journey whose destination is unknown.
- Life is a treasure and the proof of that is that few people want to die.
- Life is hard but beautiful, too.
- Life is a very high mountain.
- Life is a series of trials which are created by yourself, a superior being, destiny, chance ...
- Life is a maze: you know what you want in the near future (to get out of the maze) but don't know the way, or maybe the best way-and you have to make a choice.
- Life is a film in which you are the main character.
- Life is ... all of these.
Life's Ages
Life is said to have four stages, according to a Peter Laslett:
- Childhood.
- Working and family.
- Freedom from work and family.
- Decrepitude and death.
What is your own list of life's ages ?
Which age is the best? some think
- Thirty, because I have a job; a flat; I feel settled; I have money to travel.
- Twenty five/six, because I have finished my studies and started to work.
- Thirty, because I ended a boring relationship-and started to live!
- Twenty two, because I got my first job.
- Fifteen, because I moved home to a better place.
- Etc.
What did you want to be as a child ?
- An Economist
- An Actress
- Somebody with authority
- Hostess, Hairdresser
- A Bird
- A Fireman; I loved taking risks
- A Doctor
- A millionaire (F)
- Etc.
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