There's a webcomic I follow called: 'Between Failures'.
Its tagline is: Life is what happens between failures.
That line amuses me.

I've described Life a few times in arguments and online debates. Usually when others try to tag it as proof of this or evidence for that.
Its lead me to the following definition for Life.
Life is.

"Yeah, well, everyone dies. You're born, and you die. The bit in the middle's called life, and that's still to come!"
-- Dave Lister

Life = me

simple, isn't it?

Life is like a box of chocolates....

Come on, someone had to do it!

(November 2, 2017 at 1:15 am)Hammy Wrote: Your choice

about does it for me.

"Life is like a box of chocolates.... a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."
-- Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

I’m pretty sure that was an accidental closure so I’m reopening.

(November 3, 2017 at 8:04 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Life = me

simple, isn't it?

Here I am with my interpretation to convolute it.

I am the most important thing in existence, including everything conceivably contained in the whole universe for that matter, because everything begins and ends with my perception. Even things that my mind cannot perceive or see but we know the existence of cant exist without my being alive. I mean, sure, it does, but im speaking solely from the lens of a sole mortal human being with a beginning and an end, where nothing exists before and nothing after. But because this is true, everybody and everything else is a vital part of me, and therefore everything else has equal value to me. So the conclusion i draw is uh... I am everything. Because I am the most important, but everything else that exists to make up my reality must be just as important because wuthout these things in all their detail my experience would not be. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

So life is me, the universe is me, and so on. See my signature I guess.

(November 3, 2017 at 8:17 am)Losty Wrote: I’m pretty sure that was an accidental closure so I’m reopening.

Probably my stupid 'phone screen again. Nice catch.

(November 2, 2017 at 1:15 am)Hammy Wrote: Describe life in one word. Or one sentence. Or one paragraph. Or once post. Your choice. But this thread's purpose is to describe life.

And that's life for you. We don't speak for anyone else.

After doing one post describing life, feel free to later revisit this thread to describe life some more. Since we will never truly reach one objectively accurate description of the true subjectivity of life . . . especially not one that is fully comprehensive.

For me, right now, life feels complicated but is simple. And for me to be alive in life is to self-spectate.

It's like . . . being in a virtual reality. Where you have the controller. But the controller is controlled all by itself. And yet you can still feel it. And feel yourself at one with the controller. And you lose sense of whether you or the controller is in control, and if it even makes any sense to distinguish between the two.

For me, life is like physically feeling participation but experiencing spectating. It's like living life as a spectator rather than a participant but still feeling things that hit or touch you.

And it's like living life vicariously through others . . . and seeing yourself as another 'other' to live through. Yourself no more valid . . . and the only valid difference is you can only sense your own pain and pleasure because even empathy is only felt in your own mind and body. Besides pain and pleasure, and anxiety and desire, you don't feel real. Like, at all.

That's what life is like for me right now.