Whats Your Number?

To live: to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions; to continue in existence. This is Webster's definition of what it means to live. But what is our definition of living? What makes us get out of bed every day? Numbers. Yes, numbers are in control of you and I every day. The clock on your wall determines where you will be. The number of paper rectangles and silver coins in your pocket determine what you will eat for dinner and what sort of things you can buy. And go figure a GPA is a big fat number as well. We pull out our phones every day and scroll through our numbers and text numerous people a number of times. When we turn sixteen we buy a car and as we press the pedal down we look at the number on our speedometer with a grin as if it it somehow gives us a power we've been missing out on. When we turn twenty one we find out the number of shots our bellies can handle before we find ourselves hanging over a toilet somewhere. Numbers after thirty are always wished to be smaller and especially if you haven't found your number one. Yes numbers control how we live our lives.
This sounds to me like we live like puppets on strings. Who says it has to be this way? Why should a number on your test determine the person you are. So what you received an 8 out 15 on your last blog. Why should the number in your bank account determine where you go in life? You can do whatever you wish. Why should the number on your clock determine where you should be? Clocks do not come with chains and leashes. You see the problem is we have built these ideas about numbers that people go along with without every questioning.
I happen to be a reader. I love to read and one book that I just can't get tired of is that big fat book called the bible. In all the stories I've read in this book I've never read anything about how having a good GPA will get you far in life. Or how you are better off in life if you possess more bills in your pocket than your neighbor. Now it would be hypocritical of me to say that I don't worry about these things and that I live strictly by what I read. But after our speaker today in class, it just got me thinking why do we get so worked up over the numbers in our life when only one number should matter? The number one. Ya, because there is only one guy that is responsible for our existence in the first place.
Numbers. There is nothing about a number in the definition of life. Let us experience life as life was meant to be. Let us live by happiness. Let us not just exist as a number in this world.