Let’s Play

Quarter 2 – Module 5:
LIVING LIFE BEFORE IT
FINALLY ENDS

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 OBJECTIVE
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1. Explain how we should live our life

before it finally ends.
2. Explain how happiness, suffering, and
death give meaning to our life.

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 How should I live my Play
Let’s life before it finally
ends?
• Understanding the person as being-towards-
death brings us back to a very important
topic: freedom.
• It has been discussed previously that the
essence of freedom is
• self-determination – the capacity
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• While there is no freedom in the inevitability
of death, a person can still exercise freedom
in choosing how to face death in their lives.
• For example, a person cannot stop himself
from growing old.
• However, he or she can choose to

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 embrace aging gracefully.
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• You may have seen older people who take
pride in their gray hairs, wrinkles, and the
fact that they have grandchildren.
• Other people, however, take a different
path and use any means to mask their
physical aging such as

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surgery
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“age-defying” treatments.

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• As biological beings
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and the inevitability of death, we cannot stop
aging and the eventual decline of our bodies.
• However, we can definitely choose to spend
our lives doing good and reasonable things,
or even go against what is good.

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• The person, therefore, is the author and
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protagonist who determines the development
and conclusion of his or her life story.

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• The temporal existence of a person means
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that his or her life is temporary;
• he or she is not a being who exists
permanently and for eternity.
• Accepting the fact that we have a limited
time in this world allows us to determine
the course of our life –

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• to paint a picture ofPlay
Let’s how our life will
progress and how we envision it to end.
• While most people would prefer to not
have any sort of limit, it makes perfect
sense to appreciate the beauty of
something, framed within certain lines..

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• The key idea is thatPlay
Let’s we all have a vocation
to live life in the best possible way that we
can – by being excellent persons.
• It would be nearly impossible to measure
this, but look at how having a finish line
makes us appreciate the efforts of runners

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 even more than if there
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first place.
• Ordinarily, we celebrate the fastest runner,
but we can also appreciate the runner who
improved the most given the same set of
conditions.

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 Let’s Playus to make choices
• Temporality challenges
that will be good for us and the people
around us.
• It must also be noted that since we have
a body, we are always in the moment –
we exist in the here and now.

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• The person is Let’s
alwaysPlay
in the present
although his spiritual nature allows him to
transcend the present.
• Whenever we make a choice, we cannot
undo that choice because that present
moment has now gone into the past.

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• On the other hand, Play
choices we make in
the present are not always confined to be
here and now as they also have an impact
on the future.
• Past, present, and the future are not
exclusive and isolated moments in time,
but they are experienced together by the
person because of
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the dynamism provided by being an embodied
spirit.

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Given all these considerations, we may ask:
what is the end of this life?
• The term end can be understood in two
ways.
• Some philosophers view end as terminus
which means the full stop or end of a
line.

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• For them, life Let’s Playnothing follows.
ends and
• Others, however, consider end as telos
which means “goal, purpose, or
fulfilment.”
• Although we are oriented towards our
death, death is not the goal of life.

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 Let’sisPlay
• The human person not born into this
world just so he or she could die.
• Man is put on earth to live a
meaningful life,
• to be virtuous, and
• achieve excellence.

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• With this in mind, Play
can look at two
experiences which make us reflect on the
meaning of
• life;
• happiness and
• suffering.

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How do happiness, Play
suffering, and death give
meaning to your life?
• As we approach our death, we experience
both happiness and suffering.
• Although these are distinct experiences, the
two are not really meant to be complete
opposites,

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for there may be Let’s Playwhen they enrich
instances
one another.
• The pursuit of happiness requires that we
go through the effort to achieve it.
• Our efforts are often marked by difficulties
and discouragement.

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• For example,
• a person who wishes to pass his or her
exams must spend time to study and
exert effort to perform well in his or her
academic tasks.

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• Athletes who wish to become the best in
their field, often experience hardships in
training, injuries and several setbacks
before they are able to gain victory.

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 • Look back atLet’s
an achievement
Play in your life
which you consider your most significant
triumph.
• Certainly, that victory was coupled which
trials and difficulties, but that victory was
made significant and “sweeter” by that
you were able to surmount the challenges
you faced.
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• If we are willing to suffer
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adversities and maybe even suffer
cheerfully,
• it makes the pursuit of happiness even
more worthwhile.
• As a result, we not only attain the
happiness that we want,

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 but we also become better
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persons in
the process.
• The reality of death means that our
existence is unique and
• that we will not always get another
chance to do things we want in this life.
• Therefore, we should not easily give up
on the pursuit of good
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• Reflecting on the reality of death enables
us to think of how we can best live a
meaningful life.
• We can strive to leave behind a legacy
either in the form of an inheritance, a
reputation, or significant achievement.

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We have the tendency to form
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others.
• This is in our nature as human persons.
• This also means that we find meaning in
life when we open ourselves to others.
• Therefore, we have an opportunity not only
to enrich our lives but also

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• A person lives a truly meaningful life when
he or she lives in unity and harmony with
others.
• Although we are different from each other,
we are all made to love and serve one
another.

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• People are able to become
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they live for people other than themselves.
• When we have genuine relationships with
others, we not only share in each other’s
happiness but we also bring happiness to
others.

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• We also share Let’s
in each other’s
Play suffering and
help each other in difficult times.
• We eventually become part of someone
else’s life, we are able to live on in them in
the same way that those whom we hold
dear live on in our lives.

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• When a personLet’s
passes away,
Play he or she
continues to live on because a part of that
person is now with us.

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• Because of ourLet’s
freedom,
Play how we choose to
live our lives is entirely up to us.
• Against the backdrop of death, we are now
called to use our freedom in the best way
possible to bring us closer to our happiness
and bring happiness to others as well.

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• Our lives are works in progress,
Let’s Play stories in
the process of being written, and songs that
are about to be sung.
• Life is a gift given to each person and
it is important to turn this life into a
gift for others as well.

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