Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8so-ld-l0
I extremely enjoyed this video. Alan Watts has successfully put into words what I have pondered and realized since childhood. The subject of life having any meaning at all is one of the only things I truly have a desire for. The video focuses on the standard of the average human: to continue on living. To live and to survive is our "duty". Our instincts all point to go on living, that we must. And, to the average person, that is all they need. No further investigation is required. The people that accept live as is are usually more shallow thinkers, they don't dig deep into the everyday things that happen. But I am the exact opposite, in fact from a young age I have wondered why we so desperately try to stay alive. This thing we call life should not be viewed as work or survival. There's an unrealistic fear of death that exists in everyone, and you must obey it. But when you're dead, you've got nothing to worry about... you're ok. So life, as we know it, should not be viewed as some kind of job or necessity, but as play. Life is truly, play.
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