I maintain there is a difference between existing and living. To exist means to get through each day in a monotonous cycle. To live, on the other hand, is to embrace and pursue your purpose- your happiness. Where the former is spiritually deadening, the latter is the essence of life, the reason we are put on this earth. I think the fundamental difference between the two, between internal hollowness and intrinsic vivacity lies in this concept of 'purposefulness'.
We are all destined to fulfil and achieve different things; to have different purposes. Your purpose is your passion, the thing that makes you satisfied in the most honest and unadulterated way. It's the thing you do for no reason other than you love it, that makes you content, happy. We are all passionate about something, and if we follow those urges, we have found our purpose in life.
My biggest fear is etched in this idea of existence and drudgery. I fear that when I look back on my years in my old, degenerative state, I will have merely existed and not truly lived.
I want to live. I want to give everything I can, be everything I know I can be. And it's scary to think that this ephemeral flicker we call life can pass me by, meaninglessly. But I realise that it takes a level of deliberate consciousness to allow yourself to live, because it means taking opportunities to do what you love. It means dissenting from societal expectations and disagreeing with society's voice. That's intimidating.... But it's worth it.
Let's live. Not exist.
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