Tuesday, December 17, 2019

This thing called life

There is this thing called life. I am pretty sure you have heard of it. I have... and I think I am living it. But sometimes I am not completely sure because most of the time when I am outside its because of something that I have to do. I need to go grocery shopping, I need to go to work, I need to get cat litter, I need, I need, I need. I know that isn't always out it is but sometimes that is how it feels.

All I can think of is this thing called life because as I sit here watching a show on netflix, when I could be out enjoying myself with friends. I decided to stay. I decided. These words, need and decided, they are interesting are they not? So I looked up the exact definitions.

Need: Require (something) because it is essential or very important. 

Decide: Come to a resolution in the mind as a result of consideration. 

Life: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. 

That life definition confused the crap out of me because if that is life. Then I guess I am living it... but where does need and decide go into it? If I am just this organic matter that has the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity and continual change preceding death.... I sound pretty bland and bleak... like is there really life in that? Is that living? 

Living: 1. An income sufficient to live on or the means of earning it. 2. the pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type. 

I feel like google is just playing with me. Living... wow, it's actually about the income that you make to make a living. Make a living. Making a sort of lifestyle that you want to live. So yes that is what I am doing, I work to live. But is that really what living means? Working to live? As I write this it becomes even more confusing. My need was life. So... I decided if I wanted to be living, I would need to work.

But I am still wondering about life. ..How to live. But I guess this will never be answered.