The Whole Point Of Being Alive Is That You Are Alive! And That You Can Make Something With This. That

The whole point of being alive is that you are alive! And that you can make something with this. That we're a tangible… You know, we're literally the manifestation of some kind of underlying brilliance to how everything works. We are in physical form, and we're relating with the physical world around us. And at the same time we are consciously relating to the world around us. And consciousness in and of itself is just a physical manifestation… Right, it's neurons firing, it's chemical synapses-it's all of that. Right? So that's incredible! It's incredible, and you feel that it's incredible when you're dying. And that's the most difficult about it-is that you're laying there, and you're a little kid, and you wanna hold your mom's hand, and you wanna cry and you wanna hold on, because you feel how incredible it is to be alive. And not in a corny way, not in a stupid, fake inspirational bullshit way-in a genuine, "I don't wanna give this up" kind of way.

Claire Wineland, YouTube video