What if living took effort? I'm not talking about making a living or surviving. I'm talking about simply being alive. What if it was a task? Some people might be dramatic and say that yes, in fact it is, but that's an exaggeration; it's speaking figuratively.
I'm literally asking (rhetorically of course): What if breathing wasn't an involuntary act of the body? What if you had to think about every beat of your heart to stay alive?
How many people would die of laziness?
So many people are so lazy with so many things. It would almost be appropriate for the heart to have to be worked manually. That way those who didn't care enough to try would quickly be eliminated. It would save space, save resources, conserve energy, conserve air...
Is that being insensitive or practical? All those lazy people...what are they really doing? Wasting a life. If it really came down to it and their lives depended on them showing effort would they step up? If not it would be only fair for them to die out.
All in all, if every breath you took took conscious effort, would you live or would you die? Those folks who take life for granted would be eliminated simply through evolution and the people who really value life would remain.
It might not be such a bad thing...
Just a random thought I had today.
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