Life as We Know it...

Life as we Know It…

Recently (and quite honestly a bit ironically) conversations have been revolving around this very thought that I keep having…”what exactly is life?” I can’t help but wonder what life really means to an individual.  I wonder if people feel as though they are truly their own entity or do they feel like they flow with this world in which we live.

Let’s start with my opinion.

To me, life is meant to be fluid. It is supposed to be dynamic…never meant for stagnation. It is never black or white…but many shades of gray. It represents the yin and the yang:  full of just as much good as there is bad. It is meant to be mysterious. It is also meant to be handled with great caution. It is a continuous choice…one right after the other. Day, by day, by day. Do you notice how my descriptive words of what life means to me are feelings…thoughts…ideas… but not things that are solid, true, conforming, and testable.  In my opinion… the majority of us don’t really know what life is…not really.

I say that because I am a scientist and every day we scientists study that very idea. We hypothesize about it. Then, we test those hypotheses in a lab... in a confined, mechanical, not to mention…white lab.  We wrap our heads around numbers, statistics, facts, evidence, and proofs.  To us, it is categorized by color, by physiology, by anatomy and most importantly by evolutionary fitness.

Scary isn’t it? Well, maybe for some, but for me? See… to me life is all of those things balled into one. It is psychological, it is physical, it is scientific, it is spiritual, it is full of choices…and damn, is it made for fun. So I encourage this thought to you... create your own world…your own, “Life as you know it”, and then pass it on.