Life is the ability to perceive pain or pleasure through our senses, as the consequence of an action two people independent of us took. Although we had no choice in our existence, looks, body, mind, instincts, the world, and all the world contains... we are forced to adapt through reward and punishment towards survival. We are molded towards becoming pleasing, productive, and harmless to those around us. Should we refuse to be found convenient to others according to their made-up standards: we are negatively labeled, sent to be fixed, kicked out, locked up, or worse. In continuing to survive we pursue pleasure to distract from the pain of conditional acceptance and circumstances outside of our control. We use religion/relationship with a higher power, drugs, alcohol, different forms of distraction, sports, art, hobbies, traveling, etc to numb our minds from the fear of the unknown. Those whose desires we fulfill love to be around us, those we constantly contradict prefer to be away from us. That is life.
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