He got out of bed and went off content to serve his fellow men. Life would not only be dull and lonely it would be impossible without others. To be human means having a relationship with ourselves. While animals are conscious, only human beings are self-conscious. We have self-awareness.
Human life is defined by relationships.
We do not deny the reality of our faculties, but they have meaning only in the setting of relationships. We are now ready to propose a second definition of life. Life is being rightly related to the environment, to others and to ourselves. We can call these three relationships physical, social and spiritual life. Thinking relationally saves us from the mistake of dividing man into two or three distinct parts and then trying to look at each part separately Human life is one.