Winterborn

[Blighter]

[font=Palatino Linotype][color=#999999]N[color=#99AA99]eedless to say that regardless of what our choices, thoughts, reasons and motivations are, we exist.

While "life" itself is a term which is hard to define, the definitions of it colorfully varying for every single individual in this universe, we can assume that we, as per our lain-out terms and as per our understanding of the universe, truly exist.

This might sound self-explanatory in itself, but when you take into account all the things I have outlined before, it means aplenty.

It means that we can be perceived by other individuals with the same five senses we have. Vision - the sense of seeing, Audition - the sense of hearing, Gustation - the sense of taste, Olfaction - the sense of smell, and Tactition - the sense of touch. Once we are perceived by others, we will be perceived while acting, reacting, or in the middle of inaction.

Regardless of which of the three it is, whoever perceives us might do so as if we were a moth, not wasting more of a thought on us than the one would on a moth, saying "This person is there and exists." - and that's all. But if whoever perceives us chooses to pay more attention to us, for whichever reasons, it means our actions, reactions and our inaction can be questioned, the questioning of our doing or undoing being a direct reaction to it, just as dismissing us as just another existing person is a reaction to our very existence once we are perceived.

What we do or not do can be questioned by others, sometimes just in their own heads, sometimes we ourselves can be questioned because of what we did or didn't do. For example, why are you listening to me? - Of course, you could answer that question but I can draw the conclusion that in one way or the other you are showing interest in me, be it in my being itself or just in my words, or maybe even both.

Long story short is that by existing and being perceived we are open to others' reactions, others questioning what we do or not do, others judging if what we do or not do is according to their own individual rules and the like. Just as they are part of our surroundings, we are part of theirs, and we all choose whether to question or not to question, whether to react or not to react, even though choosing in this case is in itself a reaction to our existence. We choose whether we interact with one another or not, and we also choose how. We choose when.

You could say that we do because we exist, and we exist because we do. But that would be me digressing into a more philosophical area of conversation.