I’ve always considered the nature of living to be to grow, to become more – and the nature of dying to be reduced, to become less. Sort of like taking the derivative of what you are, the rate of change…
This has the unusual consequence that when people tell me to ‘live a little’ e.g. with idle pastimes, it feels to me like they are asking me to ‘die a little’.
What do you consider the difference?
I mean ppl usually say that you’re only alive when you feel good and bad emotions, and when you’re hurting sometimes as well. So I assume making some mistakes, being wrong, feeling things, being exposed to stuff, that’s all “living”. And sitting in your room following daily patterns a lot, no change in behaviour or routine, that’s all the “dying” part.
But at the end of the day it’s all subjective and it really depends on your focus in life and your definitions.
There would be no good without the bad. It would just be.