With the man dipping his feet in the water and reaching for the reflection of the water, this image represents how I am beginning to think about myself and my worldview. I sit down by the edge of the water, the water representing my mind since they both curve and bounce in so many directions that my clarity is warped towards my path to long-term success and happiness. I then dip my toes into the water, taking the first critical plunge into my mind. My foot sits there as the curves and swirls of the water distort my foot, which means that putting in just one part of myself was not enough to start contemplating who I am. My hand then begins reaching out into the water, so that I may start drawing more of myself into my mind in order to truly start thinking about my worldview and who I am. In the reflection below, you will notice how I barely begin to immerse myself into my mind and try to contemplate my worldview.

"A meaningful life is simply defined, but, also in contrast, thoroughly defined by the process of stepping back and evaluating one’s own subjectivity towards it. Feelings, thoughts, successes, failures, etc. have to be examined. How did you feel experiencing a certain activity? Happy? Invigorated? Empty? Anxious? Your train of thought or thoughts themselves, what were they like? Did you think about how much you yearned to depart? To remain? Did any marvelous or adequate triumphs arise from the activity? Did they improve any trait or skill or characteristic about you? Did your failures amount to anything grand or quaint? Did they teach you anything significant?"

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In this first day reflection, I provided my initial definition on what exactly a meaningful life is. The primary, and only, method I discussed on defining it was through looking back on our own feelings, thoughts, successes, and failures of the past. Then I proposed a serious of questions to ask oneself when evaluating their experiences of the past, including how anxious or happy one felt about an activity, did they have thoughts of wanting to leave or remain, and did they improve or stay stagnant from the activity. Overall, I was just providing my instinctual way of defining life, by maneuvering yourself through a deeply personal and critical introspection. However, I was not content with this being the definition of my worldview and so I decided to start diving deeper into my mind to redefine my worldview.

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Let us now move on to an image that explains how I have redefined my worldview.