It's All Relative

People are always looking for things to compare life to. "life's a journey." "Life's a game." Whatever it is, people need some relation to determine this big idea of life. But, the only real truth of life is being alive. There isn't necessarily this bigger meaning to it that seems to get. As though somehow life really means the entirety of existence. That's not what it means though, life is just what makes our reality. So, by creating some sort of relationship between "life" and something else, it makes you think you have a better understanding of life. Which should be true. The more life you live, the more you should understand life. Just like the more times you watch a basketball game, the more you know about basketball. Even though life may not be able to be defined as simply as these comparisons define it, life still shares certain qualities with the metaphors. So it's interesting, because people need to be able to break large ideas down to better comprehend how they work. And although we will never understand all of how life works, we can relate parts of life to what specific parts relate to.