When we hear the word philosophy perhaps comes to mind a knowledge that has inspired us as humanity for years of great philosophers such as Plato, Pythagoras, Descartes, among others, however there is a philosophy that does not need to follow as a pattern of study concepts and theories left by great philosophers of antiquity, that is to say, we can build our own philosophy, we can build it as that individual philosophy that can take shape in our lives as we accumulate experience during the experiences with other people, it can be nourished by individual thoughts, lived experiences, conversations and debates with other people.
The important thing about individual philosophy is that it gives us the opportunity to feel good about ourselves because it gives us the opportunity to construct our own postulates derived from our personal experiences.
This type of philosophy has a place in the construction of an individual contribution, we must start from the fact that every human being in this world is a person who thinks differently from another making him a unique being, this reason allows him to build his own individual philosophy, taking his life experiences, thoughts and even beliefs that can range from the religious to the most mystical that we can imagine.
Another important aspect to consider within the construction of an individual philosophy is that there is no restriction that limits the construction of this individual philosophy, on the contrary, as a person can go through life living every moment every experience, making mistakes and learning from mistakes, without realizing it, in this way we are building our own individual philosophy that in the end will lead us to the active construction of a wisdom that allows us to live making more and more accurate decisions.
How can we realize that we are building our own individual philosophy?
When we are aware that our ideas and thoughts are derived largely from all that accumulation of life experiences, when every decision we make is after having thought about everything that has happened to us in everything we have lived in the past, then most likely we have been able to build a set of ideas and thoughts of our own that we can call individual philosophy.
Another important quality of seeing and feeling is that the set of ideas generated based on our life experience somehow shapes the way we see the world and our environment, an example of this is when we perform a self-analysis of our life, and we realize that we no longer think and act as before, we see things in a different way, that at the same time allows us to relate to our environment in a different way, when this happens, it is because we have changed based on the construction of an individual philosophy.
To my dear readers, I ask you:
Do you see any utility in building an individual philosophy in your life?
Perhaps you have built your own individual philosophy and didn't know it?
Would you like to put your own individual philosophy into practice?