In a literal sense, life is a biological state. But that's not how we know life. If we stop to look at the vocabulary we use to describe life, we find beneath it the conceptual metaphor life is a journey . We cannot talk about life without using the language of travel. Birth is arrival .
Death is departure .
Choices are crossroads . Troubles are potholes or speed bumps . Mistakes take us off the path or onto dead end streets . Take time . Our primary conceptual metaphor for time is time is money .