Problems(4) Individual and summary
Here are the individual's problems:
1. Income.
2. Health - Physical and mental.
3. World view - Religion, politics, attitude towards life.
4. Status and power - It is common that the status and power achieved is less than what is desired.
5. Studies - Everything that we learn and our efforts to obtain knowledge.
6. Intimate relations - It is necessary to differentiate between love, sex, and marriage.
7. Friends and relatives - The extended families of the past provided more companionship than today.
8. Free time.
9, Creativity - The job that we have may not provide the opportunity for creativity and origniality.
10. Beauty - Personal and close environment.
Summary
Bertrand Russel in "Marriage and Morals" says "It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals"
The solution of some problems presents other problems which are more difficult to solve, and therefore is a never ending task.
Yet it is in the process of solving the problems that we may find a purpose and meaning for this life.
"The battle and not the victory, the campaign and not the conquest, the mitzvah and not the reason for the mitzvah - these are what give content to the life of men" (Amos Oz, "Going to the End", Shdemot of the Uniion of Kibbutzim and Kvutzot)
Notes
1. Ralph Borsodi wrote "Seventeen Problems of Man and Society" which I compared after I had composed my list of all the problems. In my opinion, we have included all the same items. The organization of his book is completely different. He also deals with different solutions, I highly recommend this book.
2. I don't have the full copy of my list of all the problems on my computer. If anyone is interested I'm willing to send it to them by post.
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