Karina
What is the difference between being alive and truly living?

<em>For example: Just existing and enjoying life.</em>

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Give a detailed answer if it's possible.

7 apr. 2015 08:13
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Let me add, I am not satisfied in my life...

7 april 2015
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It's undeniable that no one tends to be only alive lika a <em>walking dead</em>, Everybody has expetations in his life & it is not enough to be only alive...

If we have no purpose, no motivation, no love, no pleasure, it's better not to live...

7 april 2015
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Thanks for reply, Michael. I understand the difference between those two :) It`s a discussion and I`m asking people to share their opinion concerning this case. 

7 april 2015
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Huge difference!! Being alive simply means you are not dead yet, literally, but being truly living means that your life is vibrant and exciting. Please may i help you. I am a teacher (Oxford) amd a native speaker of course. 

7 april 2015

  So in finding freedom in  one's living,  one must give up the certainty  of knowing what is absolutely "right" or absolutely  "wrong".

 

   Knowing that one is always right, or always proper,  or always doing what others accepts as good or true or meaningful  allows one to know absolutely,  "where" one is; but then,  one also is not really "moving" or living if you will.

 

   The world is full of anecdotes that confirm such things.  For example,  many persons  who have brought about  great social change in the world, have usually been  hated,  scorned, persecuted, and eventually  killed.  ]Examples:  Jesus,  Gandhi,  Reverend Martin Luther  King.]  They "truly lived" and certainly did not follow social conventions.  They broke with all societal conventions.  They were hated and criticized for what they did.

 

  So from this we may consider, that much of humanity has never been "moving" or "truly living" at all.  In spite of all of one's schooling and parenting, many modern people do reach some sort of crisis  in their life and often is associated witht he feeling, "I think I must be going mad!"  or  

"I think I am going crazy!".   Mankind's education systems  really never prepare the modern person for such crises and yet the happen   with regularity.

 

    So for conclusion,  it may be reasoned that all of us can do whatever we feel we need to do.

What must be remembered is that we should be responsble and accountable for our actions.

It may be recalled that going down  "Alice in Wonderland's   "Rabbit Hole" implies that one must return out of it.

7 april 2015
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