To exist isn’t enough

There’s so much time spent on maintaining ourselves that we get so little out of just being. We have to sleep for 8 hours. Shower and shave. Eat every day. Drink water every few hours. Use the bathroom. Brush our teeth. Work out. Don’t forget the cooking and the cleaning. And so on. Then we spend more time commuting with no one to talk to. Work 8+ hours. And then we are, understandably, tired. And what is left isn’t very much after achieving what’s optimal for a human to thrive. This is why we can’t measure living by existing. We exist, but sticking ourselves in a cryo chamber isn’t much of a life. We measure life by how we live.