The actual life of an individual is what constitutes what could be called his or her "essence".
To live is to live in the world. Hence, it is not possible to conceive a human being and the whole human reality outside the world. In a socio-cultural dimension, the world is the entire socio-cultural sphere of human being or life which determines in a very broad way the human mode of living. You should know that human being from the perspective of human reality is a being-in-the-world. Insofar as you refuse to act, you are not existing and to act is to act in the world.
Human being is a worldly creature, living in an objective world of other human beings. The world being made up of creatures different from human, is also the compendium and the inhabitant of not only one human being but human beings: the world is a world of human beings. It is a vital environment that provides a vital interactive environment. Among other creatures, human being through his physical body insert laws and explore it amidst other creatures.
Nevertheless, among the human beings in the world, there is a hidden war going on for which Charles Darwin in his assertion asserted in his theory of the survival of the fittest, that only the strong which he referred to as the "Fittest" can survive. The war going on here, is not a bloody war but the problem of Noticeability and Perceivablility among other human beings.
It might be possible that you will be living but you are not alive, thereby making you a dead-living. To be, is to exist, and to exist, is to be known. Yes, many are in the world but few are living in the world.
The pertinent question is, "Am I dead-living or a living-human-being?" You maybe, but you are not perceived, how can I 'be" and be perceived? Don't worry this article will help you to establish your existence in the world. There are many things to do to establish your existence in the world but there are vital ones among many of them.
HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN IN THE WORLD
1. Going beyond your personal world:
In as much as we all live in the world together, everybody has his or her own world. This type of world is what Hussel called "Lebenswelt". There is this tendency to monadize this world. Remember that no one is an island and a man cannot make a forest. To be is to interact with people. The problem why many is not known is because they feel, not pride per say, but somehow because they are afraid of that which might come after or very shy to talk to people. Through Interaction, you get to know people and people get to know you. You also learn their differences and many other things about the person. Interaction creates friendship which according to Cicero is the bedrock of the society.
Mind disposition is very important in relating with people because good aspect and bad aspect shall definitely come but the benefit of interaction and communicating with people and also environment overwhelms the disadvantage. This is the first step to be taken.
How can you be known if you are just in yourself? The joy of living is that others are living and there is a mutual cooperation among people.
2. Engaging oneself in work:
In human person, activities that are immanent and transient helps to distinguish the human person from other animals. Work constitute an essential characteristics of human person. However, because man is a working being (Homo faber), through it, he establishes his existence. One through his work, can have dominion over others. This was the ideal Karl Marx was expanding in his phenomenological materialism where the capitalist which are those people that owns the means of production, was leading those who are labourers: Their works gained them power.
The importance of work cannot be said to be over emphasized because it brings about 99% means of living for man. People's work tells about them. Just check throughout history, those who through their works have invented one or two things cannot be forgot in history. To say you live and you alienate yourself from work is to be Dead-living.
3. Cultural integration/adaptation:
The world is organised into social groups because man is a social being that interacts with other social beings, he lives in a society made of culture. As a cultural being, man is shaped, formed and given values within his culture. So cultural influences can make one right in considering other cultures as inferior and false while upholding his culture to be the truth and anything apart from it, is evil.
At this juncture, it is of paramount importance to know that no culture is the best and no culture is the worst culture. In as much as you hold tenaciously the tenants of your culture, it is good to see good in other cultures. Coming in contact with other people's culture different from yours, is a way to establish your existence. One who learnt new culture has acquired a new soul.
Adaptability to other people's culture will help you to survive and will keep you ahead of others. This is because, getting what is good in other cultures, combining it with your own will increase your capability and knowledge: it can turn you to be a demi-god.
4. Be open to learning and try Contributing your knowledge in training others:
Learning brings us out from the cradle of unknowingness to the pinnacle of clarity in thoughts and knowledge. When you dispose yourself to learning, you have disposed yourself in acquiring more life other than the one you have. The world is the world of knowledge and to be recognized by it, you must have knowledge. Education is the key!
Coming to the aspect of teaching people, it is normally said that the easiest way to possess people is through teaching. This is because in it, you allow the person to only think through your perspectives. Teaching is a modernized way of enslaving people: this is intellectual enslavement.
Finally, having considered these factors, one thing is required which is the key that will unlock the above aforementioned things: DETERMINATION . Without it, you will remain timid and you will be without noticed. Immorality is simply how far and long people can carry your memories when you die. Come out of you world, come into the universal world; be fruitful, multiple and conquer.
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