Let it Begin...

  Thesis statement: Life is a series of small moments, all of which, on their own, could do nothing important, but when mixed create the allusive and mixed image called experience that shapes and determines a life.

          Life, the Universe and Everything: What Makes Things What They Are

     A life is an elusive thing, a rare and valuable object that, depending on how you look at it, is the only thing everyone owns, or something that is almost impossible to obtain. Often subdivided into different areas of application: eg. Social life, (often an indicator of lack therof is the phrase "get a life!" directed a the person in question) love life, sometimes divided into romantic and sexual, school/work life, or career, and of course physical life, or the lack of death. If you define any one kind of life as a "life", then its the only thing anyone (even the undead, because if they are "un" dead, they have at least a daily life, or work life, of finding food, even though they do not lack death) has, but, if you believe that most, or God forbid all, of the "subsections of life" are necessary, then it is nigh impossible to have them all. What then, should life be defined as? Can it be said that life is truly just being not dead? (or, in the case of the undead, still moving around?) Through a grand series of examples, discussions, answers, and basic memories I will attempt to prove that life, in its most base form, cannot be divided and so cannot be defined among these areas. To explain my point, I ask you: you and your girlfriend go to a party, and end up (GASP!!) making out in a side room. Which form of life is it? Romantic love life, sexual love life, or social life? Each is represented, and even just the action of flirting (say you didn't have a girl and were looking at the party) could be considered both social life and love life, and so cannot be defined. This simplistic example suggests the larger idea: life cannot be subdivided and cut up, because it exists only when it's going on. 

      For the entirety of this blog, the aim is to further this view. Should a tangent that seems to have nothing to do with Life happen to pop up, remember: thats life, and its hard to talk about it when I'm living it.