15/01/23, 7:11:03 AM – Sarah: What is your answer to "what is life?"
15/01/23, 7:56:54 AM – Alex: Struggle.
15/01/23, 8:08:31 AM – Sarah: Ouch.
15/01/23, 8:33:01 AM – Sarah: Well, this is mine — "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."Found it in a book called A Man Without a Country. Kurt Vonnegut wrote that. A skeptic wrapped in a humanist. He, too, saw the absurdity, but chose compassion as the answer.
15/01/23, 8:36:20 AM – Sarah: Why do you see life as a struggle, anyway?
15/01/23, 8:38:47 AM – Alex: Nothing has come easy. For me, that's the realest answer there is. Life is a corridor of resistance.
15/01/23, 8:41:52 AM – Sarah: Nothing's easy for me either. Nor for most people I know and have read about. I'm not denying the struggle. I'm just curious why you're seeing "struggle" as the central theme of life, or the very meaning of life?
15/01/23, 8:44:19 AM – Alex: My struggles haven't led me anywhere. There's no win, day to day. All I see is struggle.
15/01/23, 8:47:12 AM – Sarah: If life is a struggle, then perhaps its meaning is not in highlighting the difficulty—but in how we show up for one another during it.
15/01/23, 8:49:28 AM – Alex: Maybe we're both right — Life is struggle. Life is support.