The idea of there being one answer to the question of "how should I live," cannot exist. I think that the only way to decide how you should live is to, as you said, "piece together for yourself how you should live." This idea means that there are many ways to answer the question; each no more correct than the last, but none considered completely wrong. With the differences in where people live, what living standards they abide to, and what practices they follow, it is no wonder there is not and cannot be, a universal standard for how one should live. You simply cannot tell people of an industrialized country to live a certain way and expect the people of an underdeveloped country to live the same way. There is no way to conceptualize a universal way of how life should be lived because the influences of the societies people live in and the religions or traditions they follow will always be an unavoidable influence of how people will live. The only way to answer "how should I live," is to answer it for yourself.
(Link to Ama's blog: http://the-writing-junkie-school.blogspot.com)
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