11/30

I found the ideas of Existensionalism interesting.  I learned about it in AP European history my sophomore year, along with Romanticism and several other philosophical points of view.  The ideas and questions presented by existensionalism are timeless and transcend different cultures.  The questions themselves can be interpreted in many different ways, I specifically remember the questions "What are we waiting for?" and "Where are we headed?" as standing out.
People have different answers to these questions, and there are many correct answers.  For me, there are several interpretations for the first question: What am I waiting for to happen?  What are we, as humanity, waiting for?  Why are we slow to action and wanting our problems to be solved for us? 
Personally, I'm not waiting for anything - I'm focused on the present, and how I can use it to enjoy both the present and future.  I believe that most people sit around complaining about their problems, rather than taking action to solve them - this applies to most any problem in life.  People want to have things taken care of by others.
As for the other question, it can be viewed in several different ways.  It can be asking where we are headed as individuals - I am heading to college and to a job - or it can ask where we are headed as a species - to a bright or dismal future, depending on our actions to solve our problems now.  So perhaps if we continue waiting for changes to be made - saying "Oh, someone needs to improve our nation's infrastructure" instead of being that person who pushes the changes to be made, then the future of decay is ours.  But if we do what is necessary, we can push onwards and achieve things once thought impossible.