Each living thing is a microcosm of the universe. Life is amazing. It is bright colors and loud sounds. Life is energy from the sun in millions of different shapes that keep changing. It is a marvel of inventions for cooling and warming, collecting and dispersing, eating and evading, wooing and deceiving.
Life is awareness and responsiveness, it is consciousness and self consciousness.
The definition of life is different for every person. No one really knows what life is. I agree with Alexander Oparin about the origin of life. He believed that life originated through chemical evolution. At one point, the correct proportions and combinations of elements to form life appeared on earth.