Socrates, on Life

The following is from my discussion board for my class, Philosophy. We had to talk about Socrates quote, "The unexamined life is not worth living." We were asked "what does it mean to me?" and "is it true?" Here were my thoughts:

1. What does this mean to me? To me, I'd have to take the position of looking at other people's lives and not just taking the position of evaluating whether or not my life is being examined by people. We all know at least one person in this world, so therefore, your life could never be unexamined. We all have friends we all know people, those people are involved in our lives in one way or another, so therefore, our life is being examined. But also, are we examining other's lives? As Christian, we are called to bear each other burdens (Galatians 6). Bearing each other's burdens includes examining each others lives. "Iron sharpens iron".
2. Is it true? In the first question, I tackled the first part of the quote: "the unexamined life." For this question, I will be tackling the second part: "is not worth living". I have to say a hearty, No, this is not true. We are created in the image of God. God gave us life. Therefore, our lives are worth living. If you watched the powerpoint presentations, you would have known the the artist, Monet, killed himself after doing a brilliant painting of a wheat field and birds flying around. He apparently agreed with Socrates on this, because he killed himself. Monet thought that life was of no value especially when it's not being examined. Well, i'd have to say to Monet that if you examine someone else's life, your life will be examined too.