What does it really means to live? To have a life? And how about death? When can you tell that a person is dead? Is it enough that his heartbeat stop? Is it also enough to consider that a person has a life just by his heartbeat? Does living and to have a life the same? Do a dead being can be alive? Does a living can be also dead? These are what this article will going to talked about.
Life and death are two sides of the same coin. To live is a very long journey, following the rules of existing unto this world. First, given birth as a child, learn to talk,to walk and to have fun, enjoying the innocence–the privilege of being a child. Then grow up, taste the bitterness of life, questioning the purpose of being alive, lose hope, destroyed by own negativity and drown unto sorrow. And now live just for the sake of being alive.
While to have a life is a venture to find your happiness, to do what you wanted to do, taking risks is part of it. Suffer from your failures, learn from your mistakes, stand-up and in the future celebrate your success. To have life is to feel the grief of your failures, to feel the frustrations of your mistakes, to feel the sadness of disappointments. And to feel the joy and happiness of your success. So basically to live and to have a life isn't the same. To live is to simply exist unto this world. To have a life is to cherish and enjoy to the fullest the only life you have.
Then there's death, is it the end of suffering or the fulfillment of happiness?It differs from the mindset of a person, if he's able to live his life in positivity then death is a fulfillment and if he had chosen to get drowned on negativity then death is the end of his long time suffering of being alive. Death is when a person exhausted his life. The end of his journey to this unpredictable life. And the end of all lingering emotions. The death of a person is not just when his heart stop beating, it is when he had become totally forgotten; by the people, by his family, by his friends and by his own child.
Do a dead be also alive? Well, we all know of this possiblity,it was very popular in movies and video games nowadays. The edge of the coin, Zombies. It can be caused either by a parasite or a virus.
But, does a living can also be dead? Yes it can and they already existed since the old time, it was the Stoicism. To live as if you have died, to just accept everything that happened or will happen on your life. The aim of becoming a stoic person is to be calm in all the times. It was to cast away all of their emotions and forbids to become emotional. It takes a lot of temperament, courage and time to become one.
Our emotions is the basis to know that we are still alive. We laugh, we cry, feel so down, frustrations, sadness, anger and the reward of our hard work, the bonus of our success—the priceless heart-warming Happiness. Somehow becoming a stoic person is also good. You don't feel pain, sadness, grief and suffering anymore.
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