Philip on Life

If someone needed advise on relationships, I would not be the right person to talk to. I am 28 years old, I have never had a girlfriend, and have never had sex. I get nervous when I’m around pretty girls, and always feel like I’m somehow intruding when I do muster up the courage to approach someone. I am not an expert. What I do have some experience with is being single. When I was 18 I decided that I would wait to date anyone until I was 22. I was committed to being single for 4 years. I had this great plan to start dating at 22, be engaged by 24, and get married at 25. By then, I figured, I’d be mature enough to be married. Relationships, it would seem, don’t respond well to mathematics. At the time I made my “commitment”, I was in a theater group, traveling all over the country. By the time I was 19, I was head-over-heals in love with a girl, and willing to make some pretty serious life changes to be with her. My agony and salvation was that she was not interested in me. F...

What is Life? Is it time? Is it energy? Like many other 4-letter words, life can mean many different things, depending on the context in which you use it. It can simply be the state of being alive, or it can refer to everything that is accomplished during the course of one's existence. It has been the subject of many debates, and still manages to be a phenomenon which reduces scholars to scratching their heads. Scientists can study the body and see how we are alive, but no one really seems to know why. Curiosity has always been a part of life, and I would venture to say that apathy is one of life's greatest opponents. It has never been enough to simply know something is true, it is necessary to find out why. Why does the tide rise and fall? Why does a cut stop bleeding on it's own? Why does a baby have a soft spot on the top of it's head? All questions start with an observation, but it is human nature to want to know the reason. Some answers are scientific, and can be...