Resistance

In a sense, the universe may be said to consist of two types of matter: the inanimate, which coasts undirected through reality, breaking or bonding by a cycle of cause-and-effect, sometimes degrading, sometimes metamorphosing, all by the invisible maths of force and chemistry, chance and result. What stands against this chaos of physics is animated matter—the living. These pieces of reality grow and heal, replicate and reproduce, perpetuate their particular form through Time, against the erosive elements. Eventually, however, this force of life flees, and with that cessation of resistance the matter once animated is again taken to pieces, rejoining the thoughtless flow.