I know a person who refuses to fly. He misses out on many of life’s joys. I think he’s more afraid of dying than he is of being afraid of not living. If his fear of not living becomes greater than his fear of dying he will begin to experience life far differently from how he currently experiences it. What does it mean to experience life? One way is to be aware of the data streaming our traditional five senses : Touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. The more aware of the streaming data our senses are sending to us, the more we experience the physical world around us. Emotionally we experience life when we are experiencing joy, happiness, sorrow, or love. When we are alive in the sense of fully experiencing life, we discover that we can experience it anywhere. Life is going to happen whether we want it or not. It is going to challenge us and we don’t have a choice. Why fear the inevitable, embrace what we have and experience it in all in many facets.