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Life includes people, events, bodies, histories, and conditions already here. Living includes our responses: speaking, choosing, relating, acting, resting, resisting, and repairing.

Separating the two does not settle what life ultimately is. It gives us a practical question. A difficult condition can constrain us without determining every possible way of meeting it.

Limits and consequences matter. So does the difference between what is present and how we participate. When the two are fused, a struggle in living can feel like a verdict on life itself.

We can start with what is here and ask how we are living with it. The answer may include action, rest, support, or a boundary. It begins by seeing both the condition and our relationship to it.