Protons

I know what life is.

People talk about life the way they talk about a proton: They kind of understand it, they're pretty sure that it's on the net positive, but ultimately they've never seen one. They're left wondering if what they think, what they've theoried, what they've diagramed about life is in fact true, or will the generations to follow come to understand it better than we do.

The true despair is that just as with protons, since some people never truly directly experience life, they don't really know what it is, all they can observe is its effects - all they can do is say they're pretty sure that this thing right here is life.

I've come to know life. I've come to experience it directly. I am alive.  If nothing else, like Descartes, at least I am certain of this. But better than him, while I maybe still don't know my life's purpose, I know it has meaning.

Thank you, my life.