Day Fifty-Six : First Day of the Last Week
- Tami
- Feb 3, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 24, 2020
Monday 3rd February 2020
Yesterday I realised that I haven't uploaded the research that I did for the new concept, here it is :
https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/are-you-living-or-just-surviving-57fc2974a4ef Steve Spring
LIVING not SURVIVING
Fall in love with your life again
Riccardo Muti - Water Music, Suite No.1 in F Major: III. Moderato
Quora
Charles C. Lee
For me to live is to thrive whereas to survive is to manage. The word surviving doesn't have a positive connotation and I would as far to say it has a slightly negative connotation (over neutral). To live is to feel alive (that could not be more poorly worded) and I would rather live than to survive. Maybe it's the outlook or perspective an individual may have with his/her life. Someone that describes him/herself to be alive is, in my opinion, more of a joyous feeling compared to the surviving individual who seems to be struggling within his/her life.
Matthew Cheney
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Living and surviving have many differences, but they also have many similarities.
For example, both are comprised of letters found in the Roman alphabet. Both are verbs, contain the letters i, v, n, and g, and both involve breathing, eating, growing, etc.
They are very different, though. Living has an L, six letters, and two syllables, while surviving has and S, u, and r, nine letters, and three syllables. Living has a common household room named after it, and the other does not ("I read a book in the surviving room." What?).
But living and surviving imply things beyond their basic definitions and syntax. Surviving means denying death. It means focusing on staying away from hunger, thirst, mortal wounds, and other such life-threatening things. It means opposing death.
Living, on the other hand, focuses on the opposite. It focuses on doing things, on growing and achieving. While surviving centres around death and how not to die, living centres around life and how to embrace life to the fullest.
Both have the same end result. Both lead to continued existence and eventually the end thereof, but the quality of our journey between birth and death is determined by how we view our mortality. Are we merely surviving, evading death for as long as we can, or are we living life, doing all that we can do while we are still alive?
In my opinion, it's pointless to just survive. We're going to die, so why spend our whole life dreading that? Better to live now and die in contentment of a life fully lived.
Better to be happy than already resigned to death.
SMY
Are You Living Or Are You Just Surviving?
Surviving means Existing
Living means Achieving
I have decided to make a website for my new idea, I just need to change the pictures and post things. In the next coming weeks, I am planning to register my business. Here is my first moving poster :
Here website address :
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