PURTRUE LIFE STANDARD

Modern societies measure human life mostly at its edges. Clinical systems describe disease with great precision and say almost nothing about a life that is technically without diagnosis and still not working. Consumer wellbeing language describes mood, motivation and momentary satisfaction, and says almost nothing about capacity, stability or recovery. Between these two vocabularies sits the experience most people actually live in: functioning, but fragile; well, but depleted; healthy on paper, unsustainable in practice.

The tools that come closest are already public. The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) established that functioning is a legitimate object of description, separate from diagnosis. WHOQOL and the WHO-5 index established that a person's own account of their life can be recorded in a structured, comparable way. Aaron Antonovsky's salutogenic model asked what keeps people well rather than what makes them ill. Bruce McEwen's work on allostasis and allostatic load described the cost of continuous adaptation. None of these was designed to be the everyday language of a person deciding how to live the next three months.

A life standard is the missing layer. Not a diagnosis, not a score, not a personality type — a shared descriptive structure: which parts of life are being observed, along which dimensions, at what present state, and through which cycle of practice. Once that structure is fixed, an observation made in Milan and an observation made in Shanghai can mean the same thing, and a person's own reading of themselves can be compared with the same person six months later.

PURTRUE fixes four things and leaves everything else open. Seven life domains define the field of observation. Five observation dimensions — state, capacity, stability, recovery, autonomy — define how each domain is read. Five life states, P1 to P5, describe the present condition of the whole. One continuous practice cycle — observe, understand, act, review, adapt — defines how a description becomes a practice and how a practice is corrected.

To be worth calling a standard, a framework has to satisfy conditions that most wellness content does not. It has to be descriptive rather than diagnostic, so it never competes with medicine. It has to be stable enough that two trained people reading the same life reach comparable descriptions. It has to be translatable across cultures without changing meaning. It has to connect every observation to an action a person can actually take. And it has to be revisable — a state is a reading of a moment, expected to change, and always re-observed.

What PURTRUE is not is equally part of the definition. It is not a diagnostic instrument, not a treatment, not a risk score, not a substitute for professional care, and not a claim that any of its models have been clinically validated. It is a language for describing life state and a discipline for practising with that description honestly.