It is a question frequently asked; yet seldom are they who ask and are content with answers given.
What is the answer? You may ask.
The answer, perhaps, is not singular in nature.
Contrive to conceive of it: Life, a swirling sea of infinite potential, birthing multitudes of realities out of the same fundamental "truths" and laws.
You, a receiver of information which you then use to birth new life.
Creation = creating change.
Change is the only constant and we as vibrating beings are constantly changing thus creating our reality as a continuous process.
It is true, that their is much to life.
Life is complex; full of substance and sustenance.
But many who walk this earth - even though knowing such truths - may wonder: what does it mean to live a great life?
To be a great man or woman.
They may ask themselves: How may I achieve this? How do I achieve living a great life?
First off, we must ask: achieve? Why must you achieve something to live a great life?
You are then saying that a great life revolves around achievement.
Simply put: living a great life simply means to 1) LIVE and 2) to do it greatly or in great proportion, magnificent splendor ect.
Perhaps to you living greatly means to be great in the eyes of other people.
Perhaps to the next man who works as a politician; it is about the same thing , being grand in the eyes of the public.
Yet to do so is simply to be a grand spectacle in the eyes of others.
To define oneself as a grand spectacle is most definitely debilitating.
To assume ones Identity as something definable - like a grand spectacle for instance - limits the ability of living a great life as something that happens is - immediately after in the past.
This is defining the ability to live a great life as essentially having a single great moment - or a series therof.
And we know this is not it because to live a great life is to live a great life in the NOW ; always.
How can we do that when we cannot ALWAYS be delivering grand spectacles to the public?
Why would we want to live a great life in the first place If it was only confined to a series of events in space and time?
We wouldn't.
We want to live a great life in every moment.
Do we not?
When we desire a great life? Do we not desire living it?
We can only live life in the now: life in the past is a memory.
To live , is to LIVE NOW..
There is no other time-space to live in BUT now.
So, living a great life is not being great in the eyes of people: for sooner or later their thoughts of you will change.
So too, will you change, as well as your thoughts about the people you once wished to impress and the desire to impress them.
People say time is fleeting....
The truth is....Moments are fleeting : We cannot hold onto them.
We cannot LIVE in moments.
Life does not become a series of moments until we remember them as "past" in the now.
A baby lives in the now because the baby has no memories to draw upon.
To LIVE, is to LIVE NOW.
You cannot live in the past: nor the future.
So what, then, constitutes a great life?
Is it money, may that be the answer?
Well,
Money is nothing but a tool: a means of exchange to get what you want or need.
It does not constitute a great life simply because money is just a tool.
Even though it gets you what you want: not the money nor the objects you can buy will last.
Neither of these things constitutes a great life.
SO what does?
One could say that physical experiences that are pleasurable - such as the experiences of having sex, or taking drugs - are what constitute a great life.
And yet....They too do not last.
Chasing either of these pleasures and trying to make it so will result in an addiction...
Which I would say does not constitute a great life.
So what does?
Is it a great reputation that constitutes a great life?
Perhaps....
But a great reputation has to be kept no matter the cost.
Otherwise, it is no longer great.
A reputation also has to be kept: sometimes the way to keep up a good (let alone great) rep is to do bad things.
Sometimes very bad things: and how does one do bad things and still remain great?
how does one live a great life while maintaining a great reputation this way?
Lets say you only have to do good things to maintain your rep ; Will not your reputation fall apart eventually?
People may destroy your rep.....
Reputations can be destroyed.
SO, how can a reputation constitute a great life when it can be destroyed and costs effort to be maintained?
Is it really so hard to live a great life?
Lets be more clear....
Living a great life = Living greatly.
Living in a great manner.
Surely to live greatly is to live life to the fullest extent possible in every moment.
Perhaps living greatly is allowing the possibilities of life to unfold...not forcing anything - just choosing what reality you wish to experience.
Perhaps it is living for today, living our desires as they come to us.
Or is it something else? Is it what I've said and something more?
A multitude of things?
Is the concept of living a great life subjective?
Let me know in the comments below (and get paid in steem )
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