I have obtained this week's question: are you just alive or existing? Both? Or either one?
I personally think that I'm existing off my existence and I'm breathing to get a glimpse of death. We all plan for our lives and it stops when you are suck into the oblivion of nothing.
People often panic at the word 'nothing' because strangely , something that doesn't exist is SOMEWHAT scary. Why? Why is it scary? Maybe because you want to exist and you don't want to be You don't know your legacy when you fade away with billions of people from the period of Victorian era to the time the Declaration Of independence happened.
It's up to how you spend it , my dad would say. Yeah I know , but if I actually spend something just for nothing , then how I'm I doing so far?
Anyways , back to the topic of being alive or existing , its a mystery for me too. I have thought of being alive as in feeling your adrenaline rushing towards your head and having to feel simply alive. But yes , you are existing. Without existence , you can't be alive. But without alive , you can't exist.
You see , I have some reality pricked into me the other time. I could not believe I was alive but then I remember... I am alive.
I guess you could say , we , the human race , is filing up the numbers with us being alive and existing. Existing is probably because of being alive. But remove existing and your left of being alive , then how is that being alive? If no one knows your existence because you are nothing... Then that's not being alive at all.
You'll get stuck counting the days whilst your in school and I would just clarify that it is terrifying to find out the day I am living my days with sitting in a chair and knowing I have eighteen years of my life being taken off.
But add in college and what ever my career choice is , then I'm pretty much wasting 20 something years of my life then.
Existing and alive , I guess they remind us our untimely faith: nothing. (I am afraid to say that word because I do not ENCOURAGE that its okay to end your life child.)
I believe I am just questioning the world. I'm a type of person who goes down into my thoughts and solving the equations for my questions. The world is quite amazing once you start noticing the little things and euphoric sometimes. Yes , it gets hard in your life but , remember: everything is temporary for you. And also...
You matter.
Yes you do my friend.
We all matter because we are matter (science). A matter in which our organisms gets old and gives out.
Questioning things like this makes my thoughts sort out because I was troubled believing my mother when she said we are alive. Alive.... Existence..... I guess both are different but it relates to each other.
Existence is the fact you are alive. Being alive gives you existence. But without existence too , you pretty much aren't alive.