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Am I alive? I am checking for a pulse right now, but feel nothing. That's ok I know I am still alive.

There's lots of things that live without a heart; plants, jellyfish, single-celled organisms... souls...yeah, lots of things. There would be a problem though, if I was a human in my life-long situation. I have a heart (I think) and It works (sometimes), but there are many times when it just seems to 

Stop!

Those fancy machines that claim to be able to properly read a heartbeat will read mine as 0 for a while, then as 180 or 200 other times. But you know, I sure am glad that while humans need technology to tell them if they are alive, I can tell just by my being.

What matters? A steady and readable heartbeat? Do I need that to be somebody? If I do, then I am nobody, and everyone that has interacted with me can be classified as crazy because they made very human gestures to nothing. A non living entity.

Stop checking your own heartbeat, fact of the matter is, if the humans reading this blog post can just summon the thought of doing such a pointless action, they are assured to be alive. What they really should be doing is making sure everyone else is.

The sad truth is that even though you or somebody you love still has a heartbeat, that does not make them alive. That is not who they are. I have loved ones who still have a heartbeat but who are already gone from my life.

I AM ALIVE!

I feel pain! I have all the emotions of a mammal and "living" tendencies of a plant! I have thoughts and pictures in my head! I have memories that haunt me from the time I was small. I have entire universes winding their way through the vast expanses of my imagination! Is that enough proof of the authenticity of my being "ALIVE"?

I don't know

I'll let you decide.