Life is the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
So, is that how we want to view our lives as just growth, reproduction, working, playing, changing, and dying?
I don't think so because there's so much more like:
- how we work
- at what do we work
- how we play
- what we own
- helping our children grow
- teaching our children
- our religious faith
- how we express our faith
- our neighbors
- our friends
- our photographs
- our memories
and, I am sure that the list is much, much longer...
Different perspectives cause us to live our lives differently, like:
- being a child
- being a teenager
- being an adult
- playing sports
- being a veteran
- being disabled
- being sick with cancer
- being sick with other diseases
- being wealthy/poor
- being uneducated/educated
- living in the south/north/east/west/middle
- living with animals
- living with children
Another aspect of life is PURPOSE... do we have a PURPOSE? and, if so, what is our PURPOSE? Do our PURPOSES change over time and/or are they different?
Do our PURPOSES have any kind of MEANING?
Does it make sense that we only live 80-100 years and then DIE FOREVER?
Does it make sense that earth is the only planet in our entire universe that has a human being form of life?
Is life perceived differently when one is dying?
Do we not worry about life until we are dying?
Living life is different for each of us for a variety of reasons... some of which make sense while others do not... some of these reasons are based or predicated upon our purpose, our meaning, our faith, our values, our health, our family/friends, and our experiences that change over time which is part of our original definition. Many of us don't even worry about this until we are confronted with a traumatic experience(s). Maybe we would have a better life or at least a different life if we thought about it now.
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