Instructions: In Class -- Rylie Muir

Document this however you like. It can be through a video, a drawing, music, or otherwise.
Answer all questions to the best of your ability.
Read each step individually. This is an exercise in patience and self-reflection.

1. Go outside.
2. Observe your surroundings.
3. Take note of what you're feeling. Are you cold? Warm from sunlight? Maybe something is upsetting your allergies?
4. Focus on the world around you. What else do you see is affected by the things you noticed? Are there bees collecting pollen, or maybe people hurrying to get into a building and avoid the chill?
5.  Document these experiences so far.
6. What's something you see that you love?
7. How about something you hate?
8. What purpose do either of those things have on the ecosystem? If you don't know, take a moment to find out.
9. Reflect on what you've experienced so far. Understand that everything you've seen has a reason to exist the way it does. Nothing deserves to be eradicated, not even wasps.
10. Why do you exist? Ponder this.
11. Ask yourself: what gives you the right to live and dictate if other things should die for your convenience?
12. You're a small cog in a monumental machine. What does that mean for you? Do you accept these circumstances?
13. For you, what does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be living?
14. Are you alive, or are you living?