Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsPerhaps the original statement would've been best kept as a metaphorical statement. If someone is born incapable of talking then they're unable to receive everything that is possible in life. However, that doesn't mean you haven't lived. What means you've lived is what you've gotten out of life for yourself.

Here's something I've thought about often: If you are born without any of your 5 senses, are you living at all? The world you live in would be absolute nothingness, and you'd know nothing else.

Mind you, if you were born without any of the 5 senses, I don't think you'd make it very long. Still, it's something to think about.