explications & individuations
February 21, 2005“what do we lose in twenty-one grams?”
twenty-one grams. 21. the exact body weight that we lose when we die.
that figure can be defined in so many other ways.
What is 21 grams ? life ? death ? consciousness ? the final end of the multicellular processes that allow us to define ourselves as biologically alive ? the loss of mind functions which give us the sensations, the ideas, the thoughts that make up a living breathing person ?
highly rhetorical though it may be, can we really define those twenty-one grams ?
when we finally pass on, we take so much with us.
a life lived for a period of time. memories, conversations, relationships that have defined us. connections made, ideas shared, changes made through us. to the world around us.
or do we ?
everything mentioned above is not solely attributable to us alone. according to the many theories that make the rounds, we apparently continue to live in the connections we made; in the thoughts that others have for us, about us.
apparently.
i have probably said ad infinitum that we can't define life.
and yet, i keep trying. we all do.
we all live our lives linking, and thus, realizing the people around us. paradoxically, we never manage to come to terms, connect with ourselves.
can any of us truly realize ourselves?
our potential, our being, ourself.
like those twenty-one grams, we too can be defined in so many ways.
as a human, as a person, as a name, as a number, as emotions, as connections, as life, as death.
so many, many things, and yet, as nothing.
i seemed to have reached an impasse here. i say i cannot define it and yet i keep trying.
but i can see one thing right now.
it is whatever i see.
as we all see it. as we want to. as we don't want to. your definition of reality is your own.
which means that living with definitions pre-defined, that you know not, that you don't even understand; eventually means that your life is not your own.
and, at the end of it all, that may be the only thing that you can call your own.
21 grams or not; life ceases to exist but our
Rohit | February 23, 200521 grams or not; life ceases to exist but our prescence lives on; our words die but our action lives.Many want to achieve immortality; think of now; live for now for every breath you exhale brings you that much closer to a different kind of immortality; we call that life.
We live a million lifetimes; right now, you are you but a second later, you have changed; evolved.Understand; accept but continue to live.
In the end, it’s 21 grams of ash.
Interesting take on life I'll have to keep an eye
The Webwench | February 23, 2005Interesting take on life I’ll have to keep an eye on this blog to see the going-ons.
Thanks for stopping through mine, I hope you don’t become a stranger!
Life ceases to exist at some point for everyone but
Vickie | February 24, 2005Life ceases to exist at some point for everyone but memories of us live on in others forever…and I am working on memories and creating them those that are mine and I have a part of will be special, pleasant, precious…..that can be what we want them to be….I am not always happy…I always appear to be happy for that is the choice I make…see what a difference the choices in life can make….It changes so many things I say, how others see me, and even how I do act and ultimately I do become happier….just not all the time most of the time right now my illness is creating a few problems for me but I refuse to give in.
@Rohit: beautifully put again, these are thoughts that i realized
SEV | February 27, 2005@Rohit: beautifully put again, these are thoughts that i realized as well(in part after reading your comment), but as i said, everything… and nothing.
@The Webwench: we are all strangers in a virtual world where the only medium is a 12″ by 15″ box with electronics inside. but, when we do connect, the connection cannot be broken.
@Vickie: rest assured, memories that you leave will always be Simply Good. choice is indeed another perception we have, but i urge you to perceive that you make a difference. Realize this, and make a bigger one. stay.cool !