| Life |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|01:38 am] |
I think the point at which life begins is the point at which one experiences emotion for the first time. After this point, things matter. Whether you possess a significant intellect or not, smelling fresh air, feeling pain, or watching a romantic movie can all make a deep impression on your consciousness. These impressions can be conveyed to other people through a variety of means, both passive and active, and that, I think, is just as important as being able to think and manipulate the environment.
Before that point, you are unable to use your personal actions and experiences to affect other people; they merely react to you. Until you cause the reaction yourself -- to be callous -- you are unimportant, you are forgettable, you are an unknown quantity, you are expendable. After that point, only you should be able to decide what happens to your life.
...Now, define emotion, and figure out when it happens or if it's happened to someone yet. |
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