In writing a philosophy of life, it should be no more than two pages, single spaced, and can be less; it should address whichever of the elements listed below you think are most important; pick and choose. You do not have to write about all of them. In most cases, you will only need two or three sentences about each element you choose to comment on.

Beauty: what kind of beauty stirs you, what the function of beauty is in the world

Behavior: how you think we should behave in this world

Beliefs: what your strongest beliefs are

Celebration: how you like to play or celebrate, in life

Choice: what its nature and importance is

Community: what your concept is about belonging to each other; what you think our responsibility is to each other

Compassion: what you think about its importance and use

Confusion: how you live with it, and deal with it

Death: what you think about it and what you think happens after it

Events: what you think makes things happen, how you explain why they happen

Free will: whether we are “predetermined” or have free will

God: see Supreme Being

Happiness: what makes for the truest human happiness

Heroes and heroines: who yours are, and why

Human: what you think is important about being human, what you think is our function

Love: what you think about its nature and importance, along with all its related words: compassion, forgiveness, grace

Moral issues: which ones you believe are the most important for us to pay attention to, wrestle with, help solve

Paradox: what your attitude is toward its presence in life

Purpose: why we are here, what life is all about

Reality: what you think is its nature, and components

Self: deciding whether physical self is the limit of your being, deciding what trust-in-self means

Spirituality: what its place is in human life, how we should treat it

Stewardship: what we should do with God’s gifts to us

Supreme Being: your concept of, and what you think holds the universe together

Truth: what you think about it, which truths are most important

Uniqueness: what you think makes each of us unique

Values: what you think about ourselves, what you think about the world, prioritized as to what matters most (to you)