What Happens After...

In our last couple classes we discussed Sartre's idea of Bad Faith. We defined it in simple terms as "a lie to ones self". Along with the two modes of being: a being for itself and a being in itself. And we explored a number of examples of people who choose to act upon or not act upon their freedom to transcend.

Alot of times in life we go through certain actions because we feel like we are obligated to do them as opposed to wanting to do them(i.e our roles as students, we are told that we must attend school so we feel obligated to take on that role) as could be the case of Sartre's example of the waiter. I realized that bad faith is a principle that humans act upon throughout our lives. There are always certain places or certain situations which we would rather not be apart of but we allow ourselves to stay in that situation anyway and learn to "play the role". But since we are beings for ourselves we have the ability to Transcend.

But what happens after the act of transcendence? Does the individual just chill cause it happened or do you have to work at maintaining it? And is there ever a point where you fall back into bad faith and have to do the transcendence process all over again?