by Stephen Cocconi

Many human beings struggle to come to terms with their own being, let alone the entirety of existence. Often it matters not the “why”. But “what” is a question that can yield many particles of information. “How” then define them, arrange them, stylize them for our own purposes, pervades one’s own formation of “the meaning of life.” All are embedded in an awareness of TIME.

But with this point of origination, it is useful to divide this single notion into four component parts. To do so might help a person differentiate aspects of the whole and assist in discerning both the quantitative elements shared by all contrasting to the qualitative characteristics that are inherently a summation of an individual.

Break down of Corporeal and Perceptual Realities

• Life (the noun)
• Living (the verb)
• Earning a Livelihood (the adjectives)
• Experience of Life (the object of the preposition and summation of the previous three.)

LIFE

Living

Earning a Livelihood

Experience of Life

Time – Liminality and Duration