What Is Life...?

What is life?

I think this is a question we can all admit to asking ourselves at least once in our lifetime. For me, I constantly ask this. What is life? What is the meaning of life? Do I have a purpose? Is the purpose of living really just to survive until the end?

Yesterday my cat was put to sleep, it was so unexpected as only the day before he had been perfectly fine. Alive, vibrant, healthy. And then in an instant gone from the world. He won’t be remembered, just like the millions upon millions of animals and humans that die each year, he will be remembered by a few and slowly his memory will fade with the people that knew him.

But this had gotten me thinking, is this is all life is really about? Should we really care what if we are remembered? Should we really only live to please others?

Some people want a simple life, to be mothers and fathers, to own a nice house and to live peacefully. Some of us want extra ordinary adventures, some of us want the kind of life that terrifies and exhilarates us. We want the kind of life only most could think of in their dreams.

Who is really to say that life should be lived one way and not another though? There is such beauty in the way most organisms on earth live. They live to survive. They live for themselves. They live to carry on. They have to fight every day for their survival, with their heart pumping, their adrenaline pumping through their bodies.

Humans have become almost immune to this feeling, this need for survival. Most of us have it so easily that we have become lazy to the way things should truly be. Would you rather have a life that is short and filled with love, excitement, passion and adventure or a long lonely life?

Of course, everyone’s passions are different, but that is what is lacking from modern day society. We are too used to being governed by society, taking orders from the people who are higher in the pecking order than us. We are driven by selfishness and greed, we are driven by insignificant pieces of paper. We have to pay for our food, our leisure, our water. Everything has a ‘price.’ But this isn’t about money for the corporations, it is about power. They want your submission.

What many people don’t realize is that there is no price tag on life, you can live without being controlled by a small, inconsequential piece of paper.

Life is about survival, about fighting to live, it’s about being absolutely terrified and yet still making that decision. It’s about driving forward through the difficult times, pushing yourself further and further, not for others, but for yourself.

Live is about truly living, not just existing like we seem content to do today.

We need to step out of our comfort zones, stop letting corporations and society control us. We need live for ourselves and experience the true art of living.

Life is not about how many breaths we take. It is about how many moments take our breath away.

You can have a passionate, extraordinary life full of adventure, full of love and full of everything you ever dreamed of if only you have the courage to step outside you comfort zone to do it.

Everyone can have this. Everyone. The circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you truly are.