The Community of Life

Life is a community. Upon waking in the morning, to sharing a meal with family in the evening, life as a whole is a community of people in specific places, partaking in predetermined events. However, response, an attribute of living, is not predetermined. When shopping at a mall, customers are typically greeted upon entering a store. Their reaction could be to ignore the sales associate, or to engage in a warm, friendly conversation, inquiring about the best quality shoe the store has to offer. As we can see, the customer's response was given out of free-will. However, the sales associate had greeted the customer by due nature that his job required it, regardless of his willingness to do so. And despite all this, these minimal interactions hold up the shopping environment.

A common interest of living would be to sustain the very life held by an individual. Breath, eat, and sleep. The three things people know how to do upon entering the world, somehow are the very things that people need to do in order to properly sustain life, healthfully.

Individuals, given their free-will, have the ability to make their own decisions (though they may not always have the freedom to do so). This is when living becomes difficult. Racial, political, and religious disputes often tear people apart, causing them to question the very purpose of their own life. In history, governments have been seen to dictate which religions are 'allowed', and which are not. Socially, individuals do this almost daily. They may have their disputes about different religions, questioning another individual's values in life. Though sometimes felt as necessary, it is not pleasant, nor is it always beneficial. This most certainly leads to revolts, rebellion, gossip, and malice.

I, myself, have seen life as an experience. Not always enjoyable, but one I am happy to partake in. I fill the position I was born into: me. My own values, beliefs, ethnicity, gender, marital status, annual income, and the car I drive all define who I am and what I represent within this life. Some of these things I have chosen, and the others have been chosen for me. Even my name. Life is a community within itself, and certainly one that any individual, having ever lived, has experienced.