I want to see what your approaches are. I'm mainly talking about the state of mind of life and not the science of it. For example when people try to put someone down they say, "I have a life, back off." Doesn't everyone have a life?
2007-08-11 11:15:47 · 9 answers · asked by Vast Standard 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I believe that when people say they have a life is that they are living their life to the fullest taking advantage of every possibility and the other person isn't.
I've said to a couple of people get a life because all they do is watch celebrities life all the time and they've stopped living their own to watch theirs...
What's so exciting about spending your life watching other people live it... I think it's a little dumb.
I've heard that some people say I have a life to someone who's just a couch potato or to someone who just doesn't do anything productive with their life... just watches it pass by...
2007-08-11 11:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by invisible. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A life is being, living, hearing, seing. Being in contact with the world, being able to react to things in the world, and have things react back. If this is the case,(which it is...) everyone does have a life, but only if they EXIST there may be a heavn, there may be a hell, where the souls of the sainted, or the dammned, have gone. These people HAD lives and exist no longer , but in history. The way this 'putdown' is phrased is to merely insult someone, the quality of life, doesnt constitute what you say or do or become, just what you are. Life is life, it can be taken and given. It is a fragile thing, and many treat it with disrespect. We all live, we are all important in out own, special way.
2007-08-11 11:35:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think "life" in the context you are using it constitutes self worth or self esteem. People are full of themselves. So "I have a life" means... I am happy with the life I live and decisions I make for myself. However, when people say to others to "Get a life" they really saying... think the way I think and value what I value.
2007-08-11 11:23:28 · answer #3 · answered by peardietz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this world we live in, it is not easy to have uneventful days, but what really constitutes life can entail so much that I will only say this "what constitues a life depends on how you live the life you are living.
2007-08-11 12:33:04 · answer #4 · answered by Jay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best I´ve heard was:
"Life is a chemical reaction with audacity"
I don´t know who said it.
About the quality of it, I suppose that the expression means to look for something inspirational, not getting stuck in the mediocre.
2007-08-11 11:19:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I get it.
Someone told you to "Get a life" and you said "WTF is that?"
OK, here's the basic outline, you can fill in the details.
Make a bunch of money.
Find a mate & have some kids.
Protect everyone the best you can.
And just so you know. Kids are cool, and there's some serious fun in the whole money and sex thing.
;-)
2007-08-11 11:27:26 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not when their whole life consists of intruding in someone elses.
2007-08-11 11:19:25 · answer #7 · answered by ஜPink Sarcasmஜ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Whats money? a man's a sucess if he wakes up in the morning, does to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do" -Bob Dylan
2007-08-11 11:21:10 · answer #8 · answered by Meteor Crater Boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The time lapsed between birth and death .
2007-08-11 13:20:10 · answer #9 · answered by young old man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋