George Orwell's The Essence Of Being Human?

Everything brought into this world exists and takes up space, these things have their own reason for existence. These reasons are also a part of their essence. The basic nature of a thing defines the word “essence”, it is also the quality that makes something what it is. The famous author George Orwell said: “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals”. This saying by George Orwell tells us to be prepared for life’s

Most people say that “it’s better to have loved and lost”, it is the price that we pay for the fulfilling inseparability with someone we love. Personally, we agree with the statement aforementioned because it is better to be hurt by love rather than to not experience it at all. George Orwell implies that our essence is not composed of perfection, a human being’s essence is found in the imperfections we have, it is how we redeem ourselves from that situation we struggled with. The late philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, once said: “Existence precedes essence. Existence is created by essence; human nature is a product of existence. Man first exists without a purpose or definition, finds himself in the world and only then, as a reaction to the experience, defines the meaning of life.”. It means at first, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and only afterward define himself. We can only define ourselves after we faced a series of challenges. At first, we are nothing but as life goes on, we become something. It is easy to be alive indeed, but living a life is not as easy as that. There is a reason why we are