Although, I believe Plato when he says, �The unexamined life is not worth living� I don�t think everyone always lives by his words. I think it is safe to say that no one can have 100% control over his or her life and live the complete examined life. This cannot happen because that would mean he or she is perfect and we all know that no one is perfect. I myself know for a fact that I don�t always live by his words. M. Scott Peck talks about the �maps� we have, and how if we want to seek the truth we must constantly be changing and adapting our maps. I hate to say it but I don�t constantly change my maps and so therefore I don�t live the perfect examined life. In my theology class, we talked about all the reasons why people don�t change their maps and live by Plato�s words. The one reason that applies to me the most is the fact that keeping our maps true requires us to constantly change our �maps.� I just am too tired to adjust my �maps.� I�m too lazy and unmotivated to keep reformatting my understandings of the world and myself and others. The examined, deliberate life has a lot to do with our biases too. I most definitely cannot say that I am always trying to keep biases out of my mind when I am making decisions. I have problems over parts of my religion and problems with how I treat my body sometimes. But this is not to say that I don�t live a deliberate life at all. In certain parts of my life, I sail my ship with a rudder as Aristotle says we should do. There are areas of my life that I do have control over. I think I have a very good control over the faith that I have in family and friends and I also have a fairly good over all control over my academics, some subjects having more control over than others. I have a great deal of control over my sexuality and social life as well. I have a great deal of control over what I do in my spare time like drawing and lacrosse. I also have good direction over CSP and things I do to give back to the community.

         Overall, I would say that I live the deliberate life to a little better degree than I do the unexamined life. But as I human and a Christian I think I am called to do the best job that I can do in living the ruddered, examined, deliberate life.