A quick survey, if you will. Answer with thoughts, and I'll listen still.
“What is Life?”
Some of the results:
"Shit."
"What does it always come back to me?"
"Life is great."
"Shit times two."
"Life is good."
"Ball?"
"I don’t know."
"Saddening."
"It's not a simple question."
"I feel like life is just about different difficulties and your power to overcome them. All it is is one big test."
"I don't know how to explain it."
"People change people by helping the people who have less than we do."
"Oh. Oh." (Shakes head)
"42."
"Is horseradish an instrument?"
"Well, it's apparently when carbon based creatures are still ambulatory."
"That's a deep question."
What is it for you?
~E
"Life is creation. Like the opposite of peace is destruction, life is the creation of memories and moments and that which we cannot describe, as hard as we try. Life is love."
ReplyDelete"Life is receiving and giving... and in that order. First we receive the gift of life, unrequested... we inhale our first breath of air from a world so much larger than ourselves. Then we give our little gift back to the universe... we exhale. And on and on it goes.
ReplyDeletePhysical life ends when we stop receiving and giving in this way. A corpse is characterized by its lack of active reception and contribution. One could also say that we are emotionally, mentally, and spiritually dead until we are also receiving and giving in these areas of our lives.
Life is all about this give and take, this relational cycle. And it must begin with receiving. We are not self-sufficient. We are connected to something much larger than ourselves the moment we come into being."
"Life is choices, be they taken, ignored, or denied. Every decision is a branch on a tree, and the outcomes sprout from buds. The more significant outcomes - the larger buds - break off and grow into a new tree, as outcomes carry us from one place in life to another."
ReplyDeleteLife is about trying. About being tried, continuing to try, and trying to try when it seems too much.
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