Is is more important to understand life or to live it?

Question

will there always be people who are observers and people who are players.

Answer 1

To live life.

And in living, you come to an understanding of the secrets it holds and the happiness that unfolds.

Answer 2

live it otherwise you will spend your entire life trying to understand it and realize that you never truly lived

Answer 3

I think you should live it! Life is too big to be understanding it or trying to. I think if you live it, you will probably discover more about it anyway; by making mistakes and making right/wrong decisions. I would definately go out there and live it! ;]

Answer 4

Whats more important, having your cake or eating it?

Answer 5

Live it! But understand why you have it!

Answer 6

It's more important to apply both.

It's a good practice to understand the life you're living.

Or to live the life that you understand.

Still, somewhere along the way you shall discover

purpose and understand the observers are playing

their own game and the players are examining their own observations.

It's all relevant.

Peace/Joy

Answer 7

To live it,

if you spend the time observing then everything will pass you by and you wont get the chance to use the knowledge you have gained observing since you have spent your whole life trying to understand.

There are some things in this world we will NEVER understand.

Only the strong survive and Im sure they didnt spend it starring out the window trying to calculate every little thing like "why are the leaves so green?" or "why is society so cruel?"

Answer 8

you would have to live life to understand life, though I am not sure it for us to ever understand completely. However I would venture to say even the simplest of people would understand what it means to be alive more than an machine artificial intelligence could ever truly comprehend in a fashion beyond the purely logicial realm of cause and effect,  exceptions if it had the same types of sensory organs/appearance as us, or just advanced beyond all our understanding.

Answer 9

Contrary to what everyone else here has stated, I believe that it is more important to understand your life than to simply stumble through it. Any bub can wake up each morning and set a goal for himself and accomplish it by the end of the day, then wake up and doing it again the next day. But when you can truly comprehend the universal truths of life, you learn the difference between simply living, and living a life of meaning. Only then can you live a life with no regrets. Only then can you die truly happy and free.

Answer 10

You need some of both

Answer 11

We question life but never understand it .. so live it to its fullest and enjoy.

Answer 12

live life! i figure the more you live life, the better you'll understand it

Answer 13

i don't think anyone can REALLY understand life fully. so i think you should just take it as it comes and live life to it's fullest. you don't want to look back and have regrets of not doing things you wanted because you were to busy trying to figure out life. I don't think you can really figure it out. i don't think it's meant to be figured out.

Answer 14

I think its important to Experience life.  

Answer 15

Hi

No one will totally understand life.

It is far more important to live your life than it is to sit around and wonder what in the heck is going on with life!

Yes, there will always be people who sit back and observe others, and there will always be people who get out there and make things happen!

Katie

Answer 16

Live it.  Understanding comes through experiences--good and bad.