Blog Post #8: Duties for a good life

Duty is defined as a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility. Duties vary from one person to another but they are all based on the things we value and deeply care about in life. To a 6 years old boy who is obsessed with the video game Pokemon, he would feel an immense sense of duty to "catch 'em all". For me, my duties revolve around a good relationship between family and friends, fitness/well-being, future career. 
Family and friends are a vital part of my life. The daily interaction with mom and dad, hanging out with friends, or a simple talk with grandma seems to be ordinary little things but these simple moments are what makes life so beautiful. As the old cliché goes, "enjoy the little things". Fitness is also something I value because working out, eating healthy leaves me feeling energized, and happy; and this improves my overall quality of life. Lastly, it is having my future career of choice. Having a job is a part of most of everyone's life because a person should be able to self-provide but the right job should improve everyday's life's quality instead of turning it into boredom. A job I believe would improve my future life would be Mechanical Engineering because it presents the type of problems I enjoy solving.
My duties or responsibilities are to pursue or maintain these things I care for. The reason I know they are my duties is simply based on my reasonings and emotion feedback. Not being able to go workout makes me feel sluggish, grumpy, and unsatisfied. Not being able to talk to my friends or family makes me feel lonely, and deprived. Similarly, not working towards my goal of future career makes me feel unproductive, and kind of useless. All these negative feelings are a type of pain. Pain is an emotion feedback that we are luckily born with so that we know when something is wrong with our lives and needed to be fixed. Avoiding fixing these crucial problems or these responsibilities would only lead us to a miserable life.