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Hey, who turned out the life?
By: Tateru Nino
3 January, 2010

Here’s the thing I don’t get. People talk as if they expect life to just cease or suspend itself while certain activities are performed.

What the heck is up with that?

Part of the problem, really, is that whenever you say the word ‘life’ the odds are very low that anyone listening understands you to be using the word in exactly the same way you intended it. There are literally billions of shades of meaning in the word.

So, let’s pin it down a little. The scientific definition and most of the philosophical definitions are not very useful to us. John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

Let’s simplify that a step: A life is what happens while you’re alive.

It’s trite, yes, but the things that happen to you and the things you do… well, that’s what a life is.

It doesn’t come with any exclusions or exceptions.

If you pick up your telephone and talk to someone, your life doesn’t go on hold while you’re having a conversation with them (although my generation’s parents were certain that exactly that was what was happening).

If you sleep, that’s a part of your life too.

If you dream you’re a butterfly, a cyborg antelope, or a typewriter, that’s also a part of your life.

Likewise, if you act on stage, television or in a movie, that’s life.

Everything you see and hear and experience, everything you do and say – that’s living.

Lately, I’ve read so often about virtual environments being “alternatives to life” as if your life somehow stopped happening when you logged on to talk to a co-worker, or to kill a goblin or to write a poem, or to find something novel.

Last I looked, the only alternative to life was… well, death. The end of all of your experiences and the end of all your choices. Or other people’s lives. Hint: If it can’t happen without you, it’s a part of your life.

You can surely pretend or imagine that you’re experiencing another life – and that’s just another normal part of your real life too – but if you’ve mistaken some kind of life-experience as being, somehow, an alternative to life and living – that’s muddy thinking of the first-order, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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