For contemporary college students, the current development of our society provides them with a broad stage to realize the value of life, and the progress of civilization also provides higher requirements for people to create valuable lives. However, if young college students want to realize the value of life effectively, their own subjective conditions play an important role.
Generally speaking, for college students at that time, the subjective conditions for realizing the value of life are: establishing scientific life value goals, improving scientific and cultural quality and practical ability, and having good physical and mental quality.
To realize the value of life, we must first establish the value goal of life, that is, make clear the value orientation. According to relevant data, contemporary college students have a variety of value orientations as a whole. Individually, most college students have not yet formed a complete and stable outlook on life, but they have distinct characteristics. Excerpts are as follows:
First, subjectivity. Advocate self in values and take individuals as the main body. The value center is close to self-success, and the leading ideology is self-value and self-struggle, so that some college students downplay the indispensable collective consciousness, cooperation consciousness, dedication and hard work style.
Second, compatibility. With the gradual establishment of market economy system and the affirmation of people's legitimate interests by current policies, college students begin to pursue enterprising, pragmatic and cooperative value choices. The value orientation of attaching importance to reality, effectiveness and process is generally recognized. However, some students pay too much attention to immediate opportunities and development, and relatively ignore the pursuit of long-term goals and ideals.
Third, contradictions. Under the condition of market economy, the difference in the distribution of social groups' interests and the diversification of group values have obviously increased the contradiction of college students' values. The first is the contrast between moral understanding and moral practice. Generally speaking, college students not only advocate noble moral personality and lofty spiritual realm, but also pay attention to reality and vital interests. The second is the contrast inside and outside the campus. "Long live knowledge" on campus, "money talks" outside campus; Campus advocates high-level moral norms, and low-level moral behavior spreads outside campus; Long-term education on campus is often offset by short-term misleading outside campus. Third, the contrast between ideal education and social reality. The ideal education is to "go to the west, to the old areas, to the places where the motherland needs it most", while the social reality is to "go to foreign-funded units, joint ventures, and places where the most money is earned".
Fourth, instability. College students are in the growth stage, and their psychology and emotions are in a period of fluctuation. The choice and judgment of life value are easily influenced by the outside world, which leads to the vacillation of value judgment, the hesitation of value choice and even the misunderstanding of values.
Based on the above analysis, some people think that society should really guide the value orientation of college students. External causes work through internal causes, and human consciousness can also react with matter. The author thinks that contemporary college students should actively set up scientific life value goals.
Based on the above analysis and related knowledge, the author believes that contemporary college students should start from their own conditions and objectively understand themselves with a developmental perspective. This is the premise of establishing the value goal of life. Objectivity refers to putting yourself in practice and seeking truth from facts, rather than raising yourself unrealistically; Use a developmental perspective, that is, don't try to change the conditions because of your current disadvantages, thus belittling yourself. College students can get in touch with society, read and understand excellent philosophies and ideas, accumulate social experience, increase their life experience and improve their observation ability.