existence precedes essence
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Albert Camus, for instance, famously claimed that "there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."[11]
http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/sartre.html
Very few philosophers other than Jean-Paul Sartre have emphasized as much that we are entirely responsible for not only what we are but also what we will be.
If we look at ourselves and find that we are unhappy or we are in circumstances which limit us, then Sartre states we have only ourselves to blame.
a. We cannot blame our parents or teachers or friends for their influence. For, if they have influenced us, it is because we have allowed them to do so.
b. Insofar as we allow others to influence what we really want, we are inauthentic human beings living in bad faith.
We usually become this way through "trying to get along." We do not have the moral courage to "lead our own lives" and set up our own projects. Instead, we drift from thing to thing, being "controlled," so we think, by external circumstances.
