It is important to live an examined life so that you achieve a truly good life full of virtue, happiness, godliness and for you what you wanted your life to be and if people remind you of how you wanted to be, remember. Everyone has a different look and feel about the life they want to live and whether the decisions they have made in their life are happy ones and were the right decisions. Through an examined life you will achieve Socrates' goal of having achieved knowledge for the purpose of living a good life. Most people, however, will not be able to achieve an examined life without outside help and the knowledge of others. People will need the knowledge, questions and criticism of others to learn and remember where they went wrong and thus gain more knowledge. Through the Apology Socrates responds and defends the philosophical life by saying: “If you think that a man who is in any way good should consider the risk of life or death; he must look only at this in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he behaves as a good or bad man.” (Apologia, 28b-c) This quote perfectly describes what everyone should ask themselves and if they think they were right in their decisions and feel like a good person, you have achieved an examined life. An examined life is important because it is the life that everyone wants to achieve in their own way and it is the best way in which their life can change