# Death
- URL: https://www.petrikajander.com/death/
- Author: Petri Kajander
- Date: 2005-01-23
- Language: en

In our language death means the opposite of living. Being alive is to live, create, explore, and experience. Death is something where nothing is moving and everything stays still, a total freeze or a complete stop. It is something where nothing new is developed nor does anything change; death is simply a state where nothing is created anymore.

In order to be truly alive, one should be familiar with death. What does it mean not to be alive? Not to create, explore, and experience? Stay still, hold back, freeze the situation, and maintain the status quo? Resist movement or change?

How can we be sure that we are not already dead? To put it differently, are we really experiencing, continuously creating and exploring something new? We are not eager to explore and break the boundaries. We are not so excited about anything new and unknown happening. We'd rather not rock the boat and stay still and lie low. We are uncomfortable with change and prefer the current situation, no matter how bad or awkward.

Change happens very slowly in the physical world. Drastic renewal takes decades or generations rather than weeks or years. Our mind is quick to draw scenarios and imagine things, but real implementation of visible action takes decades, if not centuries. We drag our history with us. We are conservative and changing only with force. Someone who does something only when under external pressure is not creating. Where is the freedom and joy of exploration? To put it in brief—we are dead.