Sensing the Feel of Life

The feelings experienced are more often than not intertwined with what the senses provided when evidence of being alive is required. If a signal reaches the brain from one of the five senses, it is taken as a proof of life. At the same time, one’s feelings also send signals to the brain that serve the same purpose. Although the signals seem to produce the same effect, they are rather different. Then one must face the inquiry of how does one know whether one is alive or not. Such is due to the difference between living an existing. Everyone exists as it is obvious, but very few people actually live. Here is then where the difference between those signals sent by the senses and those sent by feelings is so important. The signals received by the brain from the senses tell the body that one continues to exist whereas those that are received as a result of a certain feeling one experiences remind the body that one is alive.
The sense are only able to report the existence of someone due to their capacities are very limited as is their number. There are only five senses, which only allows a certain reach into the world; and, said limitation prevents them from reporting of the state of living of the individual in question. Through the senses one is able to experience the world in its most simple form.
One can hear the world. There are too many sounds at once for one to be able to discern specifics, however, one is still capable of knowing the different sounds there are. The sounds range from the simple sound of the wind makes on a split second when it is passing by on its way through when it is traveling the around the world, and, the sound the ocean makes when it is in rage or when it is calm to the sounds animals makes in order to send a message about the dangers that approach, passing through the sounds that can be heard in industrial cities… and, then there is silence. The view of the world is equally fantastic at times and very disturbing at others. One learns to enjoy what is pleasurable to the sight, which varies greatly since the same things do not please everyone. At the same time, one also sees other landscapes and images that are not amiable to the eyes, thus one tends to ignore them or tries to. Not necessarily a solution since as a result of such action many problems in the world remain.
One can also smell and taste the world. The odors to which one is subject when walking through the world are very numerous, some are pleasant others are disgusting but that is only normal since not everything can be pleasing. The same occurs with the things one tastes. Sometimes one is pleased with the choice made; others one might regret it since the palate was not comfortable. Then there is the power of touch. It is indeed another sense that provides for evidence of existence because one can touch the world as simple as that. The world is there for one to enjoy, the change, to improve, to touch…
Contrary to what this evidence might prove, in order to be alive one needs more than what the senses provide. One needs to be able to feel something when the senses are active and even when they rest. Hence, there are feelings and emotions to account for life. One is alive when one is capable of feeling anger, sadness, happiness, love and even stress, etc. Said emotions are a proof of one’s life because they are not superficial as is the evidence they take from the senses. Even though the senses supply the necessary data for the existence of life, they alone cannot serve as a sign of life. There are many individuals whose senses are still active, yet they cannot feel anything and all there is left for them is to fall in a deep and eternal sleep. If one is not longer able to feel sad or angry or happy and exhibit the signs of such feelings, then one is not really alive but merely existing as one more object in the world.
Life is a possession everyone believes to own, but living is much more than having a space on earth. Life is not hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting or touching, life is feeling…

xoxo,
Poison Drops


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