Alive

I remember one of friends told me to have my own child to understand the meaning of child development.  He said the moment a child calls us 'mommy/daddy' is priceless and will make me alive.  And being in a family is heaven on earth because it will give me stability.  The warmth of family life will make us alive.

I guess people will point out quite many things in life that make them feel alive.  Be it family, children, husband/wife/love of their life, career achievement, challenge, social status, etc.  Hmmm maybe also money for some cases ya ;) 

I was wondering this morning when I start my day with making myself a cup of ritual hot choco, is it true those things really necessary for us to be alive?  I think we only need our heart to still beating to be called alive.  If it stops working then we will be declared dead. 

My point is, alive is a physical scientific term.  Alive is something within your body, yourself.  And your feeling should not interrupt you being alive.  Even when you feel depressed and you don't want to live anymore, what you do is to make your heart stop beating.  It is not your being sad that make you not alive, the physical action of stopping the heart beat does. 

Either you are happy or sad, you are still alive.  Feeling is overrated.