How to Prove You Are Alive, and Improve Your Life

Matt Young
The Startup
Published in
4 min readOct 3, 2021

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Movement distinguishes the living from the dead.

Every living thing moves in some way. Even plants, if you watch them over the course of a day, will move. Rocks don’t move. Not of their own volition. Movement is a pursuit for the living.

We are like sharks. If we stop moving we die. Rather, if we stop moving, it is…

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Matt Young
The Startup

Matt Young is a writer and performer based in Melbourne, Australia.