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When you die, your bones (muscles, insides, etc.) deteriorate. But there's something else inside you. Your spirit. What is your spirit, you ask? It is what is your life and soul. Your personality, your dreams, your ambitions. But what happens to your spirit when the rest of your body leaves you, where does it go? This is not an article about heaven, or reincarnation, or any religious beliefs. But just to make you think . . .
The definition of spirit is:
spirit n.
1. a. The vital principle or animating force within living beings.
b. Incorporeal consciousness.
2. The soul, considered as departing from the body of a person at death.
I think the most accurate definition is #2. "Your soul" is the most accurate definition for spirit because, otherwise it is undefinable. Your spirit is what makes you happy, or content. I think definition 1b is pretty accurate also. Your spirit is your conscience. It tells you what is right and what is wrong, no matter if you listen to it, or not.
If you know something is wrong, that's your spirit telling you. If you're happy, your spirit is happy.
But, your spirit can be hurt, like anything else in your body. If your spirit is hurt, you either get mad or sad. Most people who are depressed has a hurt spirit. It's not like a usual injury. If you get a cut on your finger, your finger hurts. If you hurt your spirit, your whole body is drained. Your heart seems to hurt.
I'll have to quote Dumbledore on this article. He says, when you kill someone, a part of your spirit dies. I think that that is true. If you commit a horrible act like that, it will haunt you forever, and your spirit will be damaged.
But now that you know what a spirit is, that brings us back to my question, which I will not answer, because it is a rhetorical question for you. Where does your spirit go when you die? Does it fly away to another place, where it will be kept forever? Is it stored to be placed in another human being? Or does it just, disappear?
Nerdishh signing off;
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