Life could be defined as the reflection of human worth in the scope of an individual perspective. Humans are not confined to simply surviving, regardless of how bleak their personal dispositions may appear. People live in their minds, a place which structures the framework of our perception of the soul. Our souls are either liberated or restrained as we live by our attitudes, ambitions, judgment, and inherent intelligence. People may cry that the world is shifting towards much darker times, in which the luminosity of prosperity and integrity will eventually be blotted out. Negativity pushes the human race into this amorphous abyss so gradually that individuals often fail to recognize the nature of the world's descent until they are hanging onto the very edge. This is what people rationalize as surviving.

Success in life begins with a victory over the collective mind, that constantly changing entity which entraps real brilliance by presenting the premise that greatness is a sign of selfishness, a greed that depletes society by solely serving individual desire. Individual desires are precisely what determine human worth in that they drive ambition, which yields progress and eventual achievement. In order for the world to stay strongly seated above the mouth of the abyss, the collective mind must be abolished or diminished to the point that it languishes into deserved obsolescence. That is the key to keeping life what it is meant to be, and ultimately, what it can only be.

To grasp the meaning of life, one must fully grasp the statement "I am." It is the most empowering, most liberating two words anyone could ever utter, and yet millions of individuals have no conception of this phrase's significance. In Ayn Rand's book "Anthem," the people of the world were enslaved and made to forget the word "I." People of this earth will never know the meaning of existing unless they discard the values of the public, the social need, and the collective "we." To reach enlightenment, one must visualize and understand the power of the self. Once this is achieved, life's definition will become more apparent and real as independent minds begin to evolve from wholly independent beings.

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